I glared through bloodshot eyes as Mash coldly held out a hand. "You have landed on my Boardwalk monopoly master... You owe me 6000 with three hotels on the property."
My hand slapped to my heart as I wheezed as the callous form of Mashu Kyrlieght heartlessly robbed my 'corpse' of all my property cards and remaining money.
"Let it be known... Mash, for some reason, has cheats when playing Monopoly." Mami said in a deadpan voice.
'Fucking fate nonsense of having conceptual luck.' I thought with annoyance.
Even the quintuplets got knocked out by Mash's horrifically overpowered luck all too damned quickly. The game of Monopoly not even lasting a full two hours even.
But after all the fun and games, our group of eight in the quintuplets, Mami, Mash, and myself had become a good bit more relaxed with one another from playing together.
Ichika was the most social and engaging with Mami and Mash.
Nino was still a spitfire but she was... Zesty you could say, but still was very caring.
Miku was soft-spoken and the most relaxed out of our group.
Yotsuba was a bit of a goober, and just fun to be around.
And Itsuki still had some tsundere in her until we put some pressure on her which made her fold like a castle of cards.
"Alright, so I got trouble coming in my way soon. I got two Rating Games basically swinging to hit me in the face. One from being Rias Gremory's contracted mage, and having to help her with her unwanted fiancee. And the Sitri clan themselves are putting Sona up to fight another water-based Devil clan who has been causing the Sitri some issues."
I waved my hands towards all of them as I continued. "You girls are basically the start of my own faction I am building. I even have a large mansion being built with the money I have collected during my missions. So with all that in mind, I need you quintuplets to be getting stronger in particular."
"Inheriting vampire blood magic takes time. And we aren't noble-blooded vampires to be fair." Miku pointed out bluntly and I nodded.
"That is true, and I am not blaming you ladies for that or anything. It's simply that we will be seeking an alternative path in gaining strength."
I took a deep breath and began to speak. "Ok, so the world we are going to. It is called Doulou Dalu as we discussed previously. Once we get there, I will trade some gold and silver for the local currency, from there we will go straight to the nearest Spirit Hall building in order to get our Martial Souls unlocked."
"From there, once we have our Martial Souls unlocked... Depending on how much of a ruckus we make, we will probably need to flee into a different town or city. But once we all reach rank 10 or the peak Soul Trainee, we will go out and collect our first Spirit Rings."
I brushed my hand across my face before I said honestly. "We may be in this world for a while, time here in this world will pass at the equivalent of two weeks of that universe equalling a single second here, but we probably won't be spending more than a couple months there at most."
Mash held up a hand and asked curiously. "How do we decide what kind of Spirit Rings we go for? We obviously don't know much if anything about the countless types of spirit beasts in the world and which ones would fit our Martial Souls."
I exhaled and then said frankly. "That... That is a very valid point Mash, as most of every one of high talent in our age group will be level thirty or forty at the very least. So it would be difficult for us to enter one of the Spirit Master schools to learn their secrets."
Threading my hand through my hair I exhaled and said had to think for a second before I said honestly. "I have an idea though... Our bodies, are purely supernatural. To put it bluntly, the strength of a person's body in their universe is very limited based on their level of cultivation, whereas ours... Runs on different rules."
I took a deep breath and then continued. "Everyone in that universe typically starts at level 10 absorbing a White or Yellow Spirit Ring tier spirit ring which signifies the spirit ring belongs to a Spirit Beast aged to 10-100 and then 100-1000 years of age. With the powers inherited from the spirit ring very much depending on the age of the spirit beast."
Mami cut in as she pointed out the general notes I had made of the universe and said. "You want us all to absorb, Purple spirit rings right? Wouldn't the spiritual shock be too much for our souls though to say nothing of whether our physical body could take the weight of the spirit rings?"
My eyes glowed with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and I mused. "I am wondering if I can simply kill the remaining spirit beast's soul within itself after the spirit ring forms. Without needing to absorb and kill the spirit beast's ego during the absorption of the Spirit Ring would make it far... Far less dangerous."
I shrugged and then added. "Also, there is the trick that if you are willing to be patient, you could also hunt members of the same Spirit Beast species and absorb their spirit rings to enhance the age of the spirit ring you have."
The world of Doulou Dalu was PETA's worst fucking nightmare... It was the very epitome of the term bloody evolution. As Spirit Beasts had the cheat of just not fucking having a lifespan until they reached a hundred thousand years old and started needing to face heavenly tribulations.
Either way, I continued. "I will test this to be sure first of all... Depending on my Martial Soul, I will find an appropriate at least thousand-year Spirit Beast to collect their Spirit Ring and also test my idea of killing the spirit beasts' last wisp of ego before absorbing the spirit ring."
"I bet you anything, we will all have vampire-related Martial Souls." Itsuki muttered with a wry smile.
I paused before I smiled wryly as well and admitted. "Honestly... I would be extremely surprised if you ladies didn't have a vampire or otherwise blood-related martial souls."
Idly I had a thought. 'What if I slept with Qian Renxue and brought her back to DXD? How much would Heaven flip their shit seeing the girl transform into a Seraphim whenever she wanted?'
No... The real question is how my Seal of Solomon would react when I slept with girls that had their own Martial Souls? What would or if anything would I gain anything from it?
Harkening back to Qian Renxu, if I slept with her and made a soul contract with her. Could I use her Spirit Rings? Or maybe just get her affinity for light and holy elements with her Martial Soul being the Seraphim.
I pushed down my idle thoughts as dealing with Qian Renxue... Was going to be a very thorny issue. If anything seducing her mother, the big baddie Bibbi Dong would be easier.
Either way, I refocused as Miku quietly spoke up. "When do we want to leave for this world?"
I raised an eyebrow and then looking inward I knew I had only reincarnated some three-plus months ago when you added the time I had spent in other worlds where time didn't pass here in this world of DXD. So I still had more than nine and a half years before I needed to go back to Worm and deal with Scion, the Endbringers, and a few villains of note.
"Hmm, how about we leave in like... Six hours or something. I will go into a different room, and each of you quintuplets get an hour with me where we spend some time together and you girls can suck some of my blood to make sure you ladies are at your top form before we leave."
The girls all shared a look before Mami impishly giggled and asked. "Oh, what about me and Mash huh? Don't we get some designated time with you?"
At seeing my face twitch she giggled again and waved a hand and said. "It's fine Jake. Me and Mash will just continue our Civilization game while we wait."
'How the hell did Mami and Mash get stuck playing video games so much.' I mused as I watched as the quintuplets shared looks as though asking which would go first.
I stood up with a small smile and said. "Well, I will be over in my own room. You girls are free to setup whatever schedule you want. We will be leaving before four though."
After all, I didn't want to leave this world with the girls getting too tired and to that effect, I gave Mami and Mash a look and said. "Don't play games for too long, you two aren't vampires after all and need to get some sleep."
With that I left for my room to let the girls have some time to themselves and as I relaxed on my large office chair I was playing around with my phone as I realized that Akeno had moved me into a couple of group chats.
First was the Gremory Peerage group chat which included the full peerage... Minus Issei Hyoudou as he was dead obviously. But there was Asia, Koneko, Akeno, Kiba and Rias. Akeno also pulled me into another chat. That was just me Rias and Akeno herself.
Anyway, I kept myself bouncing between the chats as Akeno was taking a break as Rias under my own advisment, had gotten her brother to install a gravity chamber under the old school building via Ajuka Beelzebub's genius.
So their peerage was working hard knowing it was inevitable for Riser to snap after I so bluntly refused Ravel to become her contracted magician knowning that the marriage was going to be moved up.
Akeno was being her typical flirting self, saying things like how it was unfair for her to be so tired when I wasn't the one making her tired. And Rias... She was still slightly embrassed about the contract we made.
So on the other hand, although Rias was engaging in conversing occasionally, she avoided the topics of our engagement and just trying to get to know me better. Which was a good sign.
She clearly didn't see me as just a means to an end, or an emergency tool to get around Riser and in being willing to get intimate with me. She wanted to properly understand who I was besides the bits of time I had spent with her peerage while I was also with Sona's peerage.
But soon enough both Rias and Akeno were back to getting their shit kicked in. Quite literally by Koneko, while Kiba was training in fighting and keeping up his speed under enhanced gravity.
Leaving me bored for only a couple of minutes until Ichika poked her head into the room. "Heya Jake, mind if I come in?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
I chuckled and said. "Yeah sure Ichika, come on in."
The shorter pink-haired quintuplet came in with her brushing a hand through her shorter hair while saying. "Hmm, Itsuki was being greedy and wanting to take all your attention, so you couldn't bother with the rest of us haha."
My lips twitched at the reminder of the only one of the quintuplets I had actually 'sealed' the deal completely with. But I just patted the bed beside me as I sat up and said. "Well Ichika, how about you come sit next to me and we can watch some Deviltube or something."
She gave a small smile at my gentle offering and I in turn made a humming noise as instead of taking my offer completely Ichika just sat between my legs with her back to my chest and holding one of my arms across her lower chest just below her large breasts, she and all the other quintuplets shared.
"Here, let's put this on," Ichika spoke as she poked my touchscreen phone to put on a music documentary of all things with her turning the volume down halfway on my phone. So we could still easily talk to one another as we watched the video.
A few minutes into the video Ichika tilted her head upwards towards my face and I gave a knowing smile with my free hand cupping her chin to tilt her head upwards slightly to give her a quick kiss with my bloodied lips.
'Gotta love how my blood is like catnip to these girls.' I mused as my phone lay forgotten on the side, the little documentary continuing on about a music artist in the Underworld I had never heard about.
While Ichika had turned herself around, so she was sitting properly on my lap so she could make out with me.
And after a bit of making out, our kissing moved ahead as one hand entered Ichika's sleeping gown and started playing with one of her soft breasts while Ichika's fangs peirced my neck and she moaned at drinking my blood so directly.
'It's a good thing Aqua's blessing is tied to basically a spell implanted on my soul, it isn't actually engrained into my body and magic.' I thought as should that have happened. I would have needed to get rid of Aqua's blessing lest the holy aura hurt the quintuplets. And along with Sona and her peerage.
Soon enough Ichika fell into a relaxed stupor against me with all the blood she had absorbed making me hum as I could feel her own magic slowly growing from within herself after digesting my blood.
"Hmm... A handsome man to snuggle with, and feeling so comfortably full. Now if only I had my own bedroom my life would be perfect." Ichika chuckled to herself making me huff in amusement at how easily made content she was.
I gave Ichika a gentle pat on her backside making her look at me with a pout as I spoke. "Well, I have a literal twenty-bedroom, mansion being built in the next week... So you will have your own room don't worry."
Thank all the gods the supernatural building corporations had magic to speed up building such buildings. Though... The biggest cost was the wards I paid to have built onto the property to keep out chaff and mundane humans from the property.
After Ichika had her time, I then spent a similar amount of time, around a half an hour to forty-five minutes with each of the quintuplets with each one fooling around with me and drinking some of my blood to some level.
Besides Itsuki anyway... She having a full soul bond/contract and being a bit too much of a tsundere needed to be bullied a bit and then smothered with affection. AKA put directly into a mating press until hearts appeared in her eyes and she melted into an affectionate puddle.
But after making sure all of the Nakano girls were 'well fed' and ready to go. I got them all dressed up in enchanted hoodies and clothes that would protect them from sunlight as we would likely enter the world of Doulou Dalu during the day time.
"Alright... Remember girls, this world runs literally off people screaming to the heavens their pride. If someone starts trouble... Kill them and destroy the body, and wear the isolation gloves to throw an exorcism plaque where they died to send off any soul remnants." I spoke seriously as we stood in a circle as we prepared to leave.
Despite Doulou Dalu being a much more chill cultivation universe... 'And in the later novels being a weird as hell starwars cultivation rip-off'. They were still literally cultivators with noble clans and shit that had the typical young masters and unreasonable elders.
"Any questions before we go?" I asked with finality.
The girls shared a look before Mash asked bluntly. "So go full lethal unless specified in all engagements?"
To which I firmly nodded. "Yup, honestly unless we run into a Soul Saint and above which is Rank 71 in Soul Power. I am confident in myself and Mami dealing with anything weaker than that."
If we ran into a Title Doulou? Which was rank 90 and above, yeah... I knew I wasn't at that level unless I could pull some sneaky shit like playing on their pride to get a quick stab in with my Mystic Eye's of Death Perception.
With the girls not having any other questions, and my pocket dimension stuffed with some gold, silver, and platinum. I waved my hand and a loud hum rang out as a larger multicolor portal opened up via my will.
"Alright girls hold hands and lets go," I spoke as I took Mami and Mash's hands into my own with the rest of the girls linking hands before we walked into the multi-colored portal.