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"Master…This. Is. Amazing!!!" Serafall nearly started dancing after returning from finishing her work in absolutely records time!
"I did a whole day of paperwork in less than an hour! And like you suggested I also tested it out for a bit, tried more difficult documents! But the thing worked just like magic! And I know that there was no magic inside of it!" She proudly said to me,
"I see… I am happy that the signer works just as intended." I said that with a nod. That's what being an inventor is all about! When someone is happy with one's invention!
"Yes! You have no idea, Master~~~" Serafall walked over and hugged me quite tightly, I was being squashed by her considerable breasts. She was still slightly taller than me, but I would take over her height soon enough.
Nonetheless, having a sexy devil Satan lady's breast in one's face is a nice reward.
Then she took a step forward as I could feel her wrapping her hands around me even more. I could feel her cuddling me properly now.
"Master, you know? No one has ever given me this kind of gift before! You are the first person ever to even think about making my work easier! And for that… Sera...is very grateful~~~" The black-haired devil released me from her hold after thanking me.
Not going to lie. She knows what to say.
"So, what are you working on next?" Serafall asked as she walked over and took a seat on one of the couches I have transmuted recently.
The change in her was monumental. Now she reminded me of a succubus, and not a cosplaying magic girl. Especially when she changed her position. She laid there and looked at me with those curious blue eyes of hers.
"Before I can do anything big, I will need to cast some barriers around my house and even more around my garage." I told her my next step.
"Hmm...while I can cast barriers, they are not my specialty. And anything I do will also leave a residue. Since we are in a Roman Catholic controlled country, this nation is also under the watchful eyes of Heaven." Serafall explained casually as she got comfortable on the couch.
There was annoyance evident in her voice though.
"Hmmm…I see, that does make sense, after all, less than 800 kilometres North from here is Scandinavia." I said that while stroking my chin. I needed to develop a proper filter in my geopolitical understanding.
"Indeed… you are right… The majority of the Baltic countries are under the eyes of the church. And since the population is quite small, much more supernatural things could occur here." She explained our current situation from a supernatural standpoint.
"A line of border nations… I get it…" I said with a thoughtful look. From what I know about Norse, they have their runes magic. Loki is a dick, Odin is an old pervert. Fafnir, their dragon has been resurrected. Another is sleeping at the bottom of the Baltic Sea I believe with the name of Jormungand. A lazy-ass.
And their valkyries are dressed quite sexy.
That's all I can remember in 'depth' about them. The rest are just the basic knowledge I got from Venelana. Which tells me that most of their stories are true. Except for Ragnarok, which was just a war, or more like a civil war and not some world cataclysmic event….
"Yes. If I am to cast barriers here it might cause a stir from the two pantheons as the signature was from me specifically. A Satan. The diplomatic repercussion would be massive for my race. So, master… Please don't send me to do it." For a second she tried to show me a tearful look, but it failed spectacularly…
"Yeah, I get it. I won't be doing that. And I already have an idea on what I want." I said with a sigh after seeing her fail. The devil in question just pouted at me for not allowing her to act all cute around me.
"Oh? You will do something amazing and not regularly done right?" She asked me after quickly recovering from her failed attempt to act cute.
"Indeed, From what Venelana has taught me, Barrier magic is quite simply a wall of magic. It can be in all types of form, from a physical to a sensory one." I told her what I remembered from my studies with my first devil familiar.
"Yes… that's about it. I assume you are planning something special?" She asked me with a very curious tone.
"Indeed Sera, you will see something… interesting... hopefully," I said to her as I took some of my plain looking clay and started channelling my magic into it, moulding the clay into the shape of a ball.
Once the shape was done I took the ball to my transmutation circle and started channeling more magic into it.
By this point, Serafall had already walked over to take a look at what the ball had started to transform into.
"Is that… a Diamond? A basketball-size diamond? You...what kind of transmutation circle is this?" The black-haired devil asked with a shocked look.
"Don't tell you can't create diamonds with devil magic?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"We can, obviously! But it's not permanent like this! While Devil magic is imagination-based it lasts as long as there is magic in it! What you did is a pure miracle at this point!" Serafall said while shaking her head. From the looks of it, she was truly impressed by the transmutation circle.
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Serafall realised that she might have developed a sort of new thing…
Seeing things come… together like this is another type of magic... it's more impactful...permanent.
As a devil, she could make things appear from her imagination. But, it was not permanent. What she is seeing right now though, is permanent magic done through her Master's hands.
She saw him turn that clay into pure diamond. And then saw him spend less than an hour making another set of tools…
A set of tools for carving…
He then started carving the basketball-shaped diamond into a shape…
A familiar diamond shape.
But… she realized something was different… The carvings… were not normal, he used bursts of magic each time he carved into it.
'Is he 'carving in' something? Like... meaning? Diamonds are universally seen by regular people as one of the sturdiest jewels on Earth.' Serafall thought with narrowed eyes as she tried to understand what her Master was doing without needing to ask him.
She watched him carve the whole time, before she needed to get back to her work.
The Devil lady would continue to watch him day after day until he was done with it.
When she saw the final product she knew it was magical. The Diamond glistered and would occasionally release some sparkles.
Nonetheless, Serafall couldn't find a chance to ask what it was or what the purpose of it is. She could only assume that it was the core for the barriers which will be casted over his 'garage'.
Once her Master was done with the carving, he collected the remains… just thinking about how these pieces of diamonds would be considered 'rubbish' made her grimace. Thankfully they were not considered 'rubbish' as Marcus would be re-using them for something else.
She then followed him into the summoning room. For a moment Serafall felt a bit of despair rise in her stomach as she thought her Master would summon another person from her race!
She thankfully breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him clean off the diabolical Ars Goetia summoning circle.
Instead, she saw him draw a much smaller circle and put one of the remnant diamond pieces in the middle of the circle.
Then he activated it.
This was when she saw a never-seen-before kind of circle work. Unlike any other circles, this was simply too weird for her, as it was hollow inside. The only thing she could come up with was that it looked like doughnuts.
For a moment that is, then it shrank towards the middle where the remnant diamond was.
This progressed several times… until she saw the remnant diamond simply crack and turn into diamond dust…
By this point, she couldn't take it silently anymore and wanted to know what exactly in Hell was going on!
"Why did it turn into dust? I thought you were enchanting it?" The blue-eyed devil lady asked.
"I was doing some test runs. Checking what kind of pressure it can handle. More specifically how much pressure each sequence is giving to the diamond core.
There are still some tests left to be done before I can use them on the real deal." He said to her as he took another diamond remnant and placed it on a recently re-drawn circle.
"I knew it! This is indeed a core of some kind, I have heard about them! I think my family has one!" Serafall said with a knowing look.
"You think? You don't know yourself?" Marcus asked her and stopped whatever he was doing just to look at her in surprise and disbelief.
"How should I know? You think I'm just checking everything and looking at everything curiously?" She asked him back, confused.
"You don't do that? No interest in how it's made? Or how to disassemble it and make it better?" Her Master asked, confused on why she wasn't doing such an 'obvious' thing.
"Uhhh…no? I was born with an above-average talent for my family magic and because of the civil war, I'd trained a lot. All that hard work was paid off by me becoming an office slave." Serafall said the last part with an extremely bitter tone.
She can only show her true self and her true feelings to her Master, as Ars Goetia prevents her from hiding the bitterness of her status with an act.
At this point, she was already used to not acting and hiding away with her 'cute magic girl' act.
"Hmm, I see. I guess it's just my thing to be interested in how everything was made and how it all came together."
"That's the trait of an inventor and someone who builds things. Honestly, I don't understand more than half of the things you do. But I simply know that it is amazing." Serafall said that with a sincere and honest smile. By this point, she doesn't even need to try and pretend that what he does is not amazing.
"Makes sense. Still through. Do you want to know what this core was based on? I bet you will be quite shocked after hearing it."
"Oh? Do tell." She asked curiously. The black-haired devil lady even leaned forward a little bit.
"This method was based on the very same one which the Heaven's system uses."
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