Valiana had a relatively straightforward personality, which was further influenced by the draconic traits she inherited from the Sacred Gear Divine Dividing. Being the host of the Heavenly Dragon didn't mean that one would only acquire the physical characteristics later; many other aspects were also translated into the host's personality.
Even without the draconic traits influencing her decision-making, she always went for what she wanted. Not to mention, Albion constantly teased and bothered her about her relationship with Yhwach.
Aside from that, she didn't like the glances that the females from the Asura and Deva populations were giving him, so she felt that it was time to stake her claim on her property, which, in her case, was him.
Ironically, though, Yhwach didn't really care; in fact, he found her aggressive, bold, and territorial personally rather appealing. It was incredibly arousing to see her this kind of dominant as her eyes even turned to draconic slits in mild arousal and satisfaction.
However, even he knew that it was just a matter of time until the two of them got together because they were spending every possible moment together. Valiana didn't know many people here, much less talk about having friends or something.
Even though the Asuras and Devas were not outright racists, the sheer fact that she was half-devil and descendant of the Lucifer, wasn't really playing into her cards. Devils and the rest of the species from the Three Faction Pantheon were really not popular among the other religions.
Especially among the ones that were much older and were here first, they held immense disdain for the other races.
Especially against the Devil, who, due to the invention of Evil Pieces, which allowed them to reincarnate the other species into the Devils.
Something that many, many Pantheons took grave offense.
Valiana, meanwhile, was rather satisfied with her and the good job she did.
"Also, I wanted to tell you that we can start the procedure for the Devil Draconification for you. I managed to procure every material that is needed, and we can start anytime."
Yhwach said, her eyes brightened almost instantly.
She lunged at him once more and began to kiss him with fervor. Finally, she would be able to reach the Ultimate-Class, and they would be allowed to leave Mount Kailash and explore the rest of the Draconic Deus.
Finally, at last, because she was already becoming crazy in this place. Contrary to Yhwach, who was mostly content being locked in his laboratory or studying in the libraries of the Hindu Pantheon.
He wasn't the one that would really have that adventurous spirit, as he was more of an indoor person than anything else. Among the two of them, Valiana was the one who always thinking about some adventure and exploring the world.
So, this was certainly rather a big day for her that she would finally be able to leave Mount Kailash. If she reached the Level 4 Ultimate-Class, coupled with Albion's power inside the Divine Dividing, she would have no problem fighting, defeating, and even killing some of the Level 5 beings.
Fortunately for her, Valiana's primary enemies, the Old Satan Faction, barely had any Level 4 Ultimate-Class Devils, much less about the Level 5 Satan-Class Devils, which they had only three of, and they were actually weak as fuck.
Apparently, according to Albion, who met all of them either through his different hosts or through Valiana, all three of them, the descendants of the Original Satans, mainly attained their power due to the Demonic Energy Reserves and some rash rituals that they did on themselves.
In combat, they were even worse, so they were not really any threat.
It was a no-brainer that they had never trained their powers. The entire Old Satan Faction was kept together only by the Rizevim Livan Lucifer, a Level 8 True Form Super Devil, and Euclid Lucifuge, a Level 6 Satan-Class Devil who was noted to defeat many Level 7 beings due to his superior mastery over various branches of Magic.
Even Ajuka Beelzebub praised Euclid's mastery over various forms and types of Magic, which was rather unusual, considering it was coming from Ajuka Beelzebub.
But for whatever reason, neither of the two made any moves towards Valiana. While it was true that she was hidden in the Divine Realm of the Hindu Pantheon, Yhwach had no illusions that sneaking in wasn't an impossible task.
Even though the security was tighter and better than any time before, it wouldn't be really impossible for two people of their caliber to sneak inside the Dimension of the Hindu Pantheon.
He knew that in the vast world outside, there were many methods and means to bypass the protections of the Dimensions of the Pantheons if one knew where to look and was powerful enough to use them.
If only the Old Satan Faction had weaker parts after them, it wouldn't be that much of a problem. Yhwach predicted that even if they were ambushed by one of the other three leaders of the Old Satan Faction, then he would have most probably a new subject to research on his table.
Now that he was thinking about it, that sounded like a rather good idea because the Bloodlines of the House Beelzebub, House Leviathan, and House Asmodeus would be very good research materials.
Since he had transmigrated into this world, he really took a lot of time to research various Bloodlines because it was the source of power in this world. The bloodlines in the Draconic Deus were of the utmost importance for many.
One of the biggest reasons why the humans in this world were considered the weakest and most pathetic race was because they lacked any supernatural bloodline, which resulted in their very weak and almost non-existent aptitude for Magic.
In the Draconic Deus, the aptitude for Magic mainly stems from two things.
There was the Soul Aptitude for the Magic, and then there was the Bloodline Aptitude for the Magic, and unfortunately for everyone involved, both of them were deeply intertwined with each other and were technically speaking inseparable.
Soul Aptitude decides the degree of capability related to the ability to comprehend Magic, Spells, Magic Laws, and everything related to them. It was like IQ, but for Magic, if one had insufficient Soul Aptitude, he wouldn't be able to learn Spells, and even if he learned them by some miracle, his control over them would be zero.
Meanwhile, the Bloodline Aptitude was something that was more physical because it was related to the capability of the person holding Magicules in their body. The higher the Bloodline Aptitude was, the easier it became to Store, Use and Gather Magicules, the basic building particles of the Magic.
The Bloodlines of three Great Satan Houses that became extinct were something that made Yhwach tingle in desire. The Bloodline of the Great Satan House was very special compared to the other Bloodlines of the Devils; there were only a few of the same degree as the Satan Houses...
Namely, the House Bael was famous for its Bloodline Clan Trait and the Power of Destruction, and then there were the Bloodlines of the Extra Devil Houses, which were equally special like those of the Satan Houses.
***
Several days later, the Dimension of the Hindu Pantheon, Mount Kailash, Secluded Area
After several days of intense preparations, they were already finished, and Valiana was ready for the process that Yhwach and Albion had created for her.
The White Dragon Emperor of Supremacy initially wanted to go for the more traditional draconification, like the one that happened with most of the previous hosts of the Divine Dividing or the Boosted Gear.
Everything was already prepared, and Yhwach had synergized a unique Synergy that would purify Valiana's devil half. Hopefully, the Devil Draconification Process will go as planned with the Synergy at hand.
Ironically, though, the process of the Devil's Draconification was much simpler than his own Ascension, which merged the Holy Power and Divine Energy into the Celestial Force some time ago.
One could even say that the Phase of the Draconification had already started in Valiana's body and Soul the moment she awakened the Divine Dividing because the Longinus was probably influencing her more than she was aware.
"We can start any time if you want."
They were in a rather secluded place with only him present aside from Valiana because this process would be entirely handled by Valiana and, most importantly, by Albion inside her Soul, who would be starting the process of the Draconification.
"Also, when Albion starts the Draconification Process on your person, we will proceed in two steps. I will inject you with the Synergy of the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence, which should be able to counterbalance the effects of the Draconification Process. At the same time, to ease up the process and fill in the enormous Magic requirements for the operation, we would be drawing in the ambient Magic and using it as the fuel for the Draconification Process to lower the chances of failure."
One of the main reasons why the Draconification failed most of the time with the hosts of the Longinus Divine Dividing and Boosted Gear was also the lack of Magic Power.
The Magic Power needed to fuel the process was staggering and extremely high.
It wasn't something that one could easily supply on their own, and according to Yhwach's calculations, Valiana's Draconification Process would require Magic Power equivalent to the complete reserves of several Level 5 individuals.
Which was a lot.
Very, very, very lot.
Yhwach thus took Valiana to the location within the Divine Realm of the Hindu Pantheon that had one of the highest concentrations of Magic and created an inscription that would be drawing and gathering Magic into the area.
Effectively filling the entire area with ambient Magic, which would then result in Valiana having far more than enough Magic for her own needs so she could undergo the process safely without the risk of failure.
Dragons were creatures of pure and unrestrained Magic.
Especially the two Heavenly Dragons, Albion Gwyder and Ddraig Y. Goch, were Dragons that, according to the myths and legends, were born from the Magic itself, so if their hosts were undergoing the Draconification Process, then the requirements on their hosts would be extraordinarily high in this regard.
"Start it already."
Valiana huffed in annoyance because she was too eager to start the process. After the end of the Devil Draconification Process, she would finally reach Level 4 Ultimate-Class, something that she had longed for long before.
[We can start. I am starting the First Phase of the Draconification. I would suggest injecting her with the Synergy of the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence only after the end of the First Phase. Only during the Second Phase of the Draconification would the imbalances start showing up.]
Albion's voice sounded from the Divine Dividing. Yhwach gave the suggestion a short thought before agreeing to it.
The Draconification Process had, generally speaking, several phases. The 1st Phase was the so-called Dragon Heart Phase when one would change his heart for the Dragon Heart that would start creating the Dragon Blood.
The 2nd Phase was more complicated, and in this Phase, one was already approaching close to the Dragon, and one's race would undergo a specific changes, and mainly evolving towards the Dragonoid. With the Dragon Heart fully functioning, one would use the Dragon Blood to replace all of the blood in someone's body and obtain Dragonoid Physique.
Yhwach would inject Valiana with the Synergy of the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence only before this stage because this was the most risky step for Valiana.
Then there was the 3rd Phase, which was very dangerous because it consisted of transforming the host's Soul into that of the Dragon. This was probably the most risky step out of all of them and often resulted in death, as tampering with the Soul didn't end well in most of the cases.
Right now, Albion was starting the 1st Phase of the Draconification Process, which was creating the Dragon Heart in place of her normal, human one. With the addition of the Synergy of the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence, a second Heart would be created in her body, this time the Devil Heart.
And according to the prediction, in the 4th Phase of the Devil Draconification Process, which was the Dragon Metamorphosis, she would then merge the two hearts into the Devil Dragon Heart.
The last Phase of the Draconification Process was the Metamorphosis, which would change someone's race into that of the Dragon entirely. The Metamorphosis was very dangerous, but still less dangerous than the 3rd Phase of the Draconification, which was the Dragon Soul Creation.
During the Metamorphosis, everything would fuse together, into one greater collective.
As Valiana gave the nod of consent to the Heavenly Dragon, Albion started doing his own thing while Yhwach activated the Magic Gathering Formation and set it on the lowest degree for the time being.
Because it was just the 1st Phase of the Draconification Procedure, there was no need for the highest concentration of Magic right from the start. Yhwach would be increasing the output of the formation as time progressed.
Right now, there were no visible changes to the Valiana's expression as everything was going alright and without much complications. While the process was indeed a bit painful for Valiana, it wasn't actually that much painful, and she had already experienced much worse compared to this.
Albion wasn't doing this for the first time, and he was rather experienced because sooner or later, every one of his hosts would undergo the Draconification. Either consciously or unconsciously, but one thing was more than evident.
Even though his hosts were pure human in terms of origin, which they were in most cases, they would sooner or later need to undergo at least the 1st Phase of the Draconification if they wanted to support the Level 4 power with their bodies.
The Dragon Heart that was being formed in Valianna's body acted like a Magic Power Reactor that was constantly generating more and more Magic. According to his research, even an average Level 3 Dragon would have several times more Magic than a Level 4 Human if they even reached that Level.
Dragons were one of the world's darlings, and everything about them was Magic in the true sense of the word. Some of the most powerful Dragons in the Draconic Deus were created from the pure Magic itself that was being congregated in certain places to the extreme limits until it materialized into the form of the Dragon.
For Albion, it was a very easy thing to create a Dragon Heart in place of Valiana's ordinary heart, and because Valiana was already half-human from the start and the Devil out of the boot, there was a lesser chance of losing control.
As Yhwach learned, one of the dangers of the Draconification for the humans was that, they were soon enough overwhelmed by the Draconic Emotions that were too much for the human understanding or control.
Most of them thus lost control over their own emotions as they would be overwhelmed by them and then subsequently descend into madness. That was a rather very common outcome for most of the humans who underwent the process of Draconification sooner or later.
Not many of them could control their own emotions after they were enhanced to ridiculous degrees, but Valiana had a certain advantage as she was non-human in the first place and was half-devil in the first place.
Due to this, she wasn't really in the danger of the Draconification from this aspect and it was also due to this that no many half-humans were born with the Sacred Gears in the first place.
Yahweh was really paranoid of some of the humans with the Longinus managing to break the constraints of the Sacred Gear System and everything around it, so he devises several restrictions and rules that were lowering the chances of the half-humans being born with the Sacred Gear to somewhere around zero.
It was already a little miracle that Valiana was born with the Sacred Gear. Normally, the Heaven's System would ensure that the half-humans won't be born with the Sacred Gears because, depending on their other half, they could bypass the restrictions on the Sacred Gears.
Humans didn't have this option to bypass the restrictions on the Sacred Gears, as they lacked special abilities or potential to do so. For Valiana, it was rather easy to control the side effects of the Draconification Process because the half-devil she already had rather enhanced emotions in the first place.
Yhwach observed how Albion worked rather hard from the side as there was nothing really for him to do in this Phase of the Draconification Process. The 1st Phase was relatively safe for Valiana right now, so his interference was kept to zero.
Only, from the 2nd Phase, would be doing his thing by controlling the Magic Formations inscribed on the ground that would be directing more and more Magic Energy toward Valiana to supply her with the potent Magic during her transformation.
That would lessen the chance of failure or even some of the residual trauma that could happen during the time.
Fortunately enough, with the Albion's expertise in giving his hosts the Dragon Hearts, the process was done within two and a half hours, which was much shorter than he had initially anticipated.
When the process has ended, Valiana slowly opened her eyes, as she was brimming with energy, which was clear, because even Arcturus could sense that her power had increased several times in fact.
It wasn't the quantitative change primarily, but one that was aimed at the quality of her Demonic Energy, which has gained some Draconic Properties and is much stronger than it was before.
The Draconic Properties within Valiana's Demonic Energy were rather a significant, contrary to his expectations, and she was probably 30% stronger than before in terms of the raw power alone.
The real worth of the Dragon Heart was the fact that it functioned like a Magic Power Reactor that constantly generated more and more Magical Power. With the Dragon Heart in her body, the chances that she would run out of the Magic were actually very low because the Dragon Heart was constantly creating more and more, which was giving her regenerative capabilities an entirely new dimension.
With this, she could remain in a fight much longer than before and could even start spamming AOE attacks as much as she wished. For several moments, he let Valiana acclimatize to her newfound power, which was rather high compared to before and she required some time to acclimatize to her newfound power properly.
After around half an hour, as she regained complete control over her Demonic Energy, the 1st Phase of the Draconification Process was successfully finished.
[The First Phase of the Draconifiction Process has been completed splendidly. We can start the Second Phase of the Draconification by spreading the draconic blood through her body and replacing it with human blood. You should now use the Synergy of the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence.]
Albion said to both Yhwach and Valiana that he was very satisfied with the results. This was the first time, when the Draconification Process went so smoothly and without much problem and with zero side effects.
"We should wait for one hour or so, until the newly evolved Demonic Energy within Valiana's body calms down entirely. This way, we would be preventing any unforeseen accidents from happening. Right now, while she has already regained control of the Demonic Energy, I am still detecting some waves from the evolved Demonic Draconic Energy within her body."
Yhwach quickly discerned some fluctuations within Valiana's Demonic Energy that were still rather active, but that wasn't something that they ended before the start of the 2nd Phase of the Draconification Process.
The Second Phase of the Draconification Process consisted of spreading the Draconic Blood through her body, which sounded rather simple, but in fact, it was a highly complex process that was especially arduous on her newly formed Dragon Heart.
Her Dragon Heart would need to generate many liters of Dragon Blood that would replace her Human Blood within her body. This, of course, would be coupled with the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence, which shall balance things out.
Yhwach and Albion predicted that the injection of the Synergy with the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence should cause several mutations in Valiana's body, especially in the Dragon Heart, causing it to mutate and evolve towards the direction of the Devil Dragon Heart.
[Not bad idea... the lesser unknowns are on the way, the better for us.]
Like with anything else, unforeseen circumstances were always the most problematic when it came to procedures like the Draconification process. Albion himself knew that turning the other species into Dragons was something that wasn't natural and went against the natural order of all things.
He was just forcefully changing someone's fundamental nature into something different against the wishes of the world itself. Thus, many, many things could go wrong, and if they go wrong, it usually has rather severe consequences.
"When I inject you with the Synergy filled with the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence, you would undergo rather severe pain, due to the nature of the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence. I managed to get this out of purified every speck of Blood from the captured Pure-Blooded Devils and also some descendants of the Nobility that were either half-bloods or rogues... The power that this little thing contains is probably comparable to the Level 7 Beings due to the degree of the purification that I carried out on this thing."
Yhwach went through a lot of trouble to obtain the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence for Valiana so she could become the perfect Devil Dragon Hybrid and not just an ordinary Dragon, as that would be a loss of half of her potential.
She was a descendant of the Original Lucifer or Helel before his fall, and that way, she was connected to Yahweh. Everything was there... inscribed in her very own genes, and she only needed to access that power...
But that wouldn't be easy because it was being separated by several generations, diluted by the human genome, and locked behind the Magic Seals, which prevented any Genetic Manipulations, as he had found when he researched Valiana's blood some time ago.
It seemed that Lucifer was very paranoid about someone researching and experimenting with his Bloodline and Genome, so he left there several Seals that were preventing anyone from basically everything aside from the most rudimental observation.
That was all...
After one hour, they started the procedure once again; this time, Yhwach activated the Magic Formation as the first thing that he had created beforehand and started gathering the Magicules toward Valiana.
Simultaneously, he carefully injected the Synergy with the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence into her bloodstream, allowing it to do its job. At the same time, Albion started doing his job by overloading Valiana's Dragon Heart with the Draconic Energy and Magic Power, as the tremendous concentration of the Magicules was congregating in Valiana's body.
Soon enough, her heart started pumping out more and more of the Dragon Blood, which was aggressively expanding forward, devouring the Human Blood in her body and changing her physique at the same time.
The Purified Devil Bloodline Essence was also doing its job, because the it went according to his predictions as the Dragon Blood started merging with her Devil Bloodline which was being strengthened by the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence.
Because Valiana had diluted Lucifer's Bloodline; it couldn't really measure up to the might of the Albion, the White Dragon Emperor of Supremacy, who was much stronger than the traces of Lucifer's blood in Valiana's body.
However, the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence contained the Bloodline Essence of hundreds of Pure-Blooded Devils, many of whom were members of the Devil Noble Houses, either of the 72 Pillars or the other houses.
There were even some who were descendants of the main branches. It proved to be very effective because within her body the first seeds of the Devil Dragon Bloodline were created within her body.
The process was relatively slow, with the continuous support of the increasing Magicule count that was congregating within her body. Valiana was already begging to feel the pain from within, because the process of the Dragon Blood Creation was rather painful.
In essence, the Dragon Blood was destroying the Human Blood in her body, an excruciating and arduous process that she was doing everything she could to withstand.
Still, Valiana was concentrating as much as she could on the control of the Dragon Blood through her body, which was being merged with the Devil Blood, slowly but steadily replacing all traces of the Human Blood that was remaining in her own being.
Yhwach could sense how her power was increasing with the spread of the Dragon Blood and the Devil Blood. They were slowly devouring every single part of Humanity that remained in her, slowly leaving Valiana as a Devil and Dragon Hybrid or something similar.
In a certain sense, she was an unfinished product because there were still two stages before she would become the Devil Dragon in the true sense. The Dragon Blood Creation Phase was something that didn't take a long time because it was relatively short and didn't take a long time for Albion to replace all of the Human Blood in her body with that of the Dragon Blood and due to Yhwach's effort, with the Devil Blood.
Obviously, this wasn't really enough for Valiana to reach the Level 4 Ultimate-Class, but her physical state got a tremendous increase in power from the Dragon Blood. Even before, she was physically very strong, but now, he was very certain that she already reached the limits of Level 3 in the physical aspect alone.
He was sure that by the end of Phase 4, the Metamorphosis Aspect, she would have reached Level 4 in the aspect of her physique rather easily. Yhwach knew that Valiana would be physically much stronger than him due to the Dragon part of her, because Dragons were physically exceedingly strong.
Soon enough, the 2nd Phase of the Draconification had ended, and right now, Valiana was awaiting the hardest part of the Draconification Process, which was the transformation of her very own Soul to that of the Dragon.
Transformation to the Dragon Soul was the most arduous and dangerous part of the entire Draconification Process because tampering with the Soul never ended well. Even some of the most skilled and experienced Magicians wouldn't dare to take the Soul tampering lightly.
The Soul was always the foundation of life and the very own being of every single living being, so any adjustments to the Soul could lead to extremely fatal consequences. Albion himself did this only a few times, and even from that number, it wasn't going according to the plan every single time.
Yhwach thus asked for some protection from the Gods of the Hindu Pantheon and managed to obtain several countermeasures from Brahma and Vishnu, the two very powerful Gods of the Hindu Pantheon who had a lot of dealings with the Souls.
They managed to provide Yhwach with several adjustments to the Magic Array that he created for Valiana, so the Magic Array would also work as something that would protect her Soul if something went wrong.
To be extra sure, he also asked for the Soul Protection Talisman that Valiana is carrying right now, which would protect her Soul from negative effects. Those talismans were personally blessed by Brahma and Vishnu, so it's effectiveness was very high.
"Do you want to start the Soul Transformation Phase right now or not?"
Yhwach asked Valiana because, after some discussions with Albion, they realized that doing all of the Phases of the Draconification consecutively after each other was somehow beneficial for the person undergoing the process.
While it increased the danger and percentage of failure in some of the Phases, at the same time, the overall chances for the person to successfully undergo all Phases of the Draconification Process got a bit higher.
Most probably because of the lingering might of the Heavenly Dragon that remained in her body after each successfully completed Phase, it helped her in the next Phase. The energy of the Heavenly Dragon, such as Albion that remained within her body helped her to better withstand the side effects of the Draconification.
"We are going now... I will take some rejuvelation elixirs to restore my stamina and start the healing process. I can feel that I can complete the process in one go..."
He heard her say as he then passed her several vials with the Elixirs that were made by the best Alchemists from the Hindu Pantheon, and some were directly bought from the Celestial Court because that was a faction with the most developed Alchemy.
After Valiana drank the Elixirs, her face regained a lot of color; it seemed that the fatigue from the first two phases was gone now... as well as a lot of money that went into the Elixirs as they were rather pricy.
Nevertheless, now that she felt much better, they could start the third Phase of the Draconification Process, which was the most challenging step: transforming her Soul into that of the Dragon.
Contrary to the previous Phases, this time, Yhwach was going to have a much more active role in the entire thing. He was going to actively control the Magic Array and work together with Albion on the transformation of Valiana's Soul into the Dragon Soul.
He knew that if there was someone who was actively controlling the Magic Array, it would increase the chances of success tremendously, and at the same time, the entire procedure would be much safer.