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"Sera, you mentioned spies yesterday? Has anyone been snooping around you lately?" I asked quite seriously and Serafall stopped in her tracks.
"Nothing of concern. Sirzechs only sent some people to find out about my increased speed in paperwork. Naturally, he could not find anything as there was nothing of note in my office.
So far, nothing that is going requires us to act. But… knowing him… he isn't going to stop until he finds something…
In conclusion, we need to prepare something, otherwise he might just push me to the point where I need to have an answer of some sort prepared for him.
Worst case he will send Grayfia after me to spy on." Serafall gave me an answer. And this was exactly the answer I was expecting. Sirzechs will do something.
'Grayfia is an issue, she is a devil from an extra house. My Ars Goetia does not affect her. That means I need to come up with another binding method. Another concept to base the binding.'
'She is a servant of Lucifer if my memory is right, Venelana barely covered the extra houses since there are so few of them left.'
"I see if that's the case I need to think of countermeasures, in case you need to talk," I said to her after thinking for a while.
"...Master...I hope you are not thinking of making me fight them? I might be strong but Sirzechs is on a completely different level…"
"No such thing. There is no need for you to fight anything. Ars Goetia will pull you to my side in case you fall under some sort of suspicion. The course of action for you is to reveal that you have a contract with a genius inventor. This will cause some publicity for me, but it's better than you losing your position.
If it comes to that, we can think of future actions once we reach that point. For now, we need to think about countermeasures in case my location is discovered." I said while continuing to think.
Serafall released a sigh of relief before thinking for a moment.
"Doesn't the Diamond Heart Core make it nearly impossible to pinpoint the coordinates of teleportation?" She asked me with a thoughtful look.
"Not quite… they would know the general direction. For example, if you were to jump from America to here. People would be able to track the general direction of it. Meaning Europe, somewhere towards Asia. This means they would be able to pinpoint that it's Eastern Europe.
It's even more accurate if you teleport from the Underworld. If anyone were to track the teleportation they would know that you ended up in Eastern Europe. But that would raise some suspicion as your direct location can't be tracked."
"...This means they will be suspicious because I am hiding something…"
"Correct. That's why you need an alibi…"
~~~~~~Underworld (some time ago)~~~~~~
A certain red-haired man was sitting in his office, he was radiating an extremely serious aura.
"Grayfia...I need you to find out how Serafall is doing her paperwork. It's of utmost importance that you find out." The current Lucifer said with a deadly serious tone.
"Can't you just ask her how she is doing it?" His Queen asked with a confused look. She was baffled that he asked her to spy on a fellow Satan!
"Already did… she dodged the question multiple times. I realised that she didn't want to share it" The red-haired man explained to her.
"Then… there should be a reason as to why she doesn't want to share it." Grayfia reasoned with him.
"Indeed. But, I need the truth. She finishes all her work before midday. Such a thing is unheard of. If I could do such a thing then I would have much more time for other things than just paperwork!" He said the last part with a chilly icy tone. His eyes slightly glowed red as he looked at the mountain of papers at the edge of his desk.
He was about to use Power of Destruction on it but changed his mind at the very last second.
"Very well. If this is what you wish. I will do this for you."
"My thanks, Grayfia." The current Lucifer nodded before returning to his work.
While his Queen left after bowing to him.
~~~~~~Few Weeks Later~~~~~~
The Strongest Queen has been trying to figure out what was going on with Satan Leviathan.
At first, it was just her mission entrusted by her King. But then she realised something was going on with one of the strongest members of their race.
Serafall was much happier… Not that fake Magic girl act. In truth, she has not seen Leviathan wearing a magical girl outfit for some time now.
This points towards something that is going on with the fellow devil. Grayfia concluded that the black-haired Satan was most likely dating someone.
The happiness, the changed behaviour, she has seen this kind of thing before. But, this still does not answer the question: how is Serafall doing her paperwork this fast?
While the silver-haired maid didn't like the fact that she had to continue with her spying, she still tried but. In the end, she couldn't find anything.
This only leaves her with the fact that she needed to track her down in the human world…
Easier said than done, as Serafall really doesn't want to be discovered. Secrecy to this kind of level for some reason disturbs the Silver-haired maid.
She can get the fact that Leviathan is a public figure and she wants her own private life, but this amount of secrecy even towards the teleportation circles is over the top. No one in the Underworld hides their teleportation destination to this level.
'Eastern Europe… that's dangerous Serafall, why are you going to Church controlled territory?' Grayfia tried to pinpoint the teleportation with her magic but she found out that she had immediately lost the black-haired Satan in Eastern Europe.
Nonetheless, she now knows the general location, although this might take several weeks, maybe even months, of careful searching…
~~~~~~Marcus~~~~~~
It was finally time to test the holographic design table. After finishing the basic OS, the table was now functioning to a usable level.
The whole PC and table designs were done months ago. But the OS took ages to program. Even with my augmented talent, it still took months since I was working on making it a self-updating one for the sake of saving time.
There are shackles in places. I don't want a rogue A.I capable of designing tech and magic weaponry running in the supernatural world after all.
So it has certain restrictions on how it can self-update. Nonetheless, it will eventually be a virtual butler capable of helping me in the field.
After thinking about it for a bit I decided to upgrade M.T.M Castor MK II to the next level.
For that, I scanned the paper design and uploaded it to my PC. Going through several filters I could now see the 3D image of the gun.
At the current level, to interact with the holograms, I still needed to wear specific gloves. These gloves will help collect all the data on my movement and cross-reference it with the hologram. This will help to improve the hologram and the interaction from humans to the hologram.
Eventually in the next level, I won't need to wear gloves to interact with the hologram.
But to reach that level, I needed to use the table in the first place. That's why I am already using it although it was quite uncomfortable.
First I stripped the gun of its case and left only the M.T.M circle technique.
Then I upgraded the M.T.M onto the next level, with more accelerator circles, magnifying circles, as well as booster ones. This made the system much bigger but that's the point.
The gun will be bigger, if the gun is bigger then, the rail can also be longer. The longer the rail is, the more power it can create.
Speaking of the rail. Next is the Barrier Rail Technique, or in this case Barrier Rail System.
For this one I decided to make diamond rails powered by magic. Not only will it accelerate even further, it will generate heat and friction both of which will be absorbed by the barriers around and then added to the load at the very end.
This whole thing would increase the power of the shot from around 300% to 400%. In other words, even a regular man could technically kill a high-class Devil with this. Just by pressing the trigger.
While all of this was nothing more than upgrading already existing techniques or in this case systems, I'd started working on the cartridge system.
The basics were quite easy. Scatter fire, or beam version. Or even cannon fire. Those are simple magic manipulations. Done through a circle.
That's why it was time for me to summon my first devil familiar…
"Well, I am almost done with the internal design…"I said to Serafall who was doing her paperwork.
"Hmm? That was quick… I thought you were going to spend days on it." The current Leviathan said with a curious look as she just pressed YES to sign a paper.
"As if… I am not doing this on paper anymore. And I'd already reworked the two main points of it, and now I am working on the cartridge. For that, I will need to summon Venelana." My words stopped Serafall In her tracks.
"What...for?"
"Her Power of Destruction," I said plainly. And Sera sighed in relief after hearing that. Is she jealous or something? Does she think that I will have my way with that brown-haired devil lady?
"I see… are you planning to recreate it?" She asked me after fully realising what I just said.
"Indeed. More like synthesising." I said to her, Before focusing on my Ars Goetia and connecting to Venelana.
'Venelana it's me. I will be summoning you soon, get ready.'
'O-Of course…' I got a shocked response from her. Well, I would be shocked too, after not talking for more than a few years.
A few moments later Solomon's circle appeared and Venelana appeared in all of her physics-defying glory.
The first thing she did was obviously to look around. Her eyes eventually ended up on Satan Leviathan…
"L-L-Lady Leviathan!? Y-You are here!? D-Does this means…"
"I am his Sitri Pillar." Serafall casually nodded at Venelana.
"No...wonder… no...wonder I was not summoned anymore…" the brown-haired devil lady was looking at the tiled floor. Her shock was obvious on her face.
"Not that you need to be summoned… you can summon yourself. I do that every day. I am the one who keeps him company in any way he wants…" Serafall words had many meanings and it would seem Venelana understood that very well.
"Anyway. Let's keep this short. I only need some of your power of destruction. Once I scan it you can return to the Underworld." I got her attention back with my words.
She turned around and looked at me from top to bottom. A bunch of emotions went through her eyes at that moment.
"It's fine. I have more than enough free time these days and I haven't seen you, Master, for more than two years." She said with a certain tone.
If she doesn't want to leave then, there is a hidden motive. Well, we will have to see what it is that she wants. It would be quite interesting to find out…
'I should have asked Serafall about the political landscape of the devil.' For a second I thought about it. But decided to drop it for the time being.
"I see… then you can stay if you want. Let's get the Power of Destruction reading done first." I motioned for her to come over, where a white circle was getting prepared.
"I need you to create a ball of Power of Destruction and make it float inside that circle for a certain amount of time. Can you do it?" I asked her while walking over to my computer.
I could see that the circle was properly connected to my PC.
"Easy enough. I can assume you are trying to recreate it? While I have no doubt that you could do it. You do know the repercussions of doing so?" Venelana asked me with a sigh.
Satan responsible for diplomatic relationships in my garage. I know more than I need." I said with an eye roll.
"If you say so…"
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