Opening my eyes, I found myself in a strange place, a cavernous room seemingly constructed from pure shadows and so big that I couldn't see the ends.
Still, somehow the mahogany desk in front of me was perfectly visible even if I couldn't figure out where the light source was coming from.
I would have paid more attention to the other occupant of the room if my brain wasn't trying to bend itself to figure out how the room worked.
"Hello, Sir." A squeaky feminine softly reached my ears, making me focus on the person talking to me.
I say person but the only other creature in the room was the strangely cartoonish Purple Cat sitting on the opposite end of the desk.
"You look like Yuumi from League of Legends," I Said to the talking cat in front of me.
This must be the weirdest dream I ever had and a bit of a missed opportunity if I could talk with one of the champions, I would have preferred Shen he had been my main for years back in the day.
"Technically speaking I'm not the original Yuumi but a clone made by The Company for one of our contractors before finding my way into recruitment, Specifically
I'm in charge of a recruitment program targeted on finding new contractors willing to complete specific grand missions depending on their profile and build history." the game character told me.
"Wait The Company, Missions, Builds? Like on the Waifu Catalogue website?" disbelief and maybe a little bit of wonder tinting my shaking voice.
"The very same you would be familiar with according to your profile, Yes."
"I thought that was just some make-believe writing proms for people to share and have fun online"
"And to anyone other than a possible contractor it is but it is also a recruitment tool for the Company, Coffee?"
Yummi said with a kind smile waiving one of her white-tipped paws in a swift motion and making a cup of warm coffee appear on my side of the desk.
"Thank You" I took a sip of the brewage finding it was exactly how I would make it at home only with a richer flavour.
I took a second to gather my thoughts while enjoying the best cup of coffee I ever had in my life and noticed Yummi repeat the paw-waving motion before and magically make herself a cup of tea while she waited for me.
"So I will just accept that this is happening and roll with it, How does this work you said something about missions?"
I finally said, either this is real or I'm having the world's most realistic dream. Regardless my best option right now is to take things seriously.
"It's quite simple, to be honest, and not that different from what you would expect from how the contract works in most of those writing prompts you brought up before the difference is that you are been contracted to primarily complete one specific Grand Mission.
If you accept you while making your build following the parameters and limitations of the mission once that's done you will be transported to your starting world."
"Can I read the mission before accepting? Also, what happens if I don't accept?"
Yuumi once more waved and this time a tablet materialised on the desk for me to read over the mission details.
{Mission: The True Gremory
Location: High School DxD
Scope: Grand
Description: Aren't you tired of watching the same protagonists doing the same stuff over and over again?
Well never fear because I have an alternative. You will Substitute [T5] as Millicas Gremory the nephew of Rias Gremory and you will be the one that through sheer force of will, determination, strength and charisma will be able to wrestle the title of Heir of Gremory for yourself, become the True Harem King and crush all your enemies underfoot while bringing glory to the name of Gremory.
Conditions:
You must buy Universal Calibration and choose for Millicas to have at most 1 year age difference with Rias (whether he is older, the same age or he remains younger is at your discretion).
You can not kill any of Sona's, Rias' or Issei's Peerage canon members, Being unable to save them from death does not count as killing them as long as you had no hand in it.
You must not have any of Sona's, Rias' or Issei's Peerage canon members in your peerage. (It doesn't stop you from capturing them, just not using your Evil Pieces or them or trading them into your peerage.)
You can only capture any of Sona's, Rias' or Issei's Peerage canon members by love confession,
You must not take any Devil Heiresses in your Peerage.
Out-of-world characters are limited to non-Deities and Tier 7 maximum. The Tier restriction is ignored only for your Queen Piece.
Evil Pieces Restrictions for Out-of-World Characters:
T8 = Queen Piece Only
T7= Either 6 Pawns or 2 Bishops or 2 Rooks or 2 Knights
T6= 5P or 1R
T5= 3P or 1B or 1K
T4-1 = 1P
You can have a maximum of 2 Mutation Pieces and they can't be your Queen.
Mutation Pawns have double their reincarnation power only.
Other Mutation Pieces can increase their resurrection tier by 1.
Once you recruit a peerage member you cannot trade them away.
You can't recruit Valerie Tepes [T8] (because let's be honest this trope has become overused). Capturing her will award you no credits unless sold to the Company.
Each Member of your Retinue (including yourself) can only have 1 Template maximum.
Until the end of this Mission, you can't use the Power swap perk on yourself.
Until the end of this Mission, you can't purchase any Heritage options.
Until the end of this Mission, you can't purchase any defences aside from Body, Wild, Environmental, Information, or Destiny.
Primary Objectives:
Be granted the title Heir of House Gremory by either Zeoticus or Runeas Gremory.
Have a full peerage by using all your Evil Pieces.
Be recognized as an Ultimate-Class Devil by the leaders of one faction.