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"This… how is that even possible? The energy needed for that…"
"It's called perpetual energy for a reason. I don't need to care about energy. Only how to pull a large amount of it. Energy has never been an issue." Marcus casually explained to her as he started testing the scattered shoot…
And once again it should have been casual… but these golf size balls of P.O.D are able to easily erase something on the scale of New York into rubble.
"This is bullshit…" Venelana could not control herself anymore and swore under her breath. Both Serafall and Grayfia looked at the brown-haired woman in shock. She probably never swore in her life.
In public that is…
"My son spent decades training his power to reach this level. He is the strongest devil living at the moment and he can only demonstrate this kind of power by transforming! But all you need to do is press a trigger!" The devil lady said with a bit of annoyance.
"Impressive," Marcus replied simply, as if they were discussing the weather forecast.
"Impressive that someone can achieve that through training. I guess I need to try harder if there are beings like that."
Venelana opened her mouth from shock hearing that. She realised that she might have just made her Master try harder to make even crazier stuff!!!
"No-no-no!" She quickly shook her head and hands in front of her. She looked like a panicked teenage girl for a second.
"I mean what you achieved in such a short time is simply astounding! That's what I am saying! My son spends an incredible amount of time training and you did all that in such a short time! There is no comparison!" By this point, Lady Gremory was trying to butter up and flatter her Master as much as possible. Like hell she wants him to create something which could crack the planet by accident or something like that!
"Obviously. Your son trained his magic to achieve that level. But, where he builds a castle from things he finds. I brought materials to build mine. Where he built it by hand. I built it with instruments I created myself. I did what humans do best.
I simply found a way to build it faster, easier, more efficiently, while his hard work is impressive, he spends a lot of time doing it. That's all there is Venelana. He is a fighter and I am an inventor and engineer. I invent while he fights.
Comparing us is pointless. You should compare engineer to engineer, fighter to fighter. I am never going to fight with some warrior's honour. That is for warriors to do. More specifically, I am not even going to fight… I will simply disable the enemy and take him to the lab to research, that is if they have something to research in the first place. If it's a boring enemy I will simply…" Marcus lifted his rifle and shot a bolt of energy at the target.
Once again the shooting range turned pitch dark. Venelana got the message loud and clear. Borderline getting deaf again.
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"Sera… does the supernatural world have something akin to bounty hunting?" I asked the beauty next to me as we watched Mark II getting assembled.
The robotics hands were swiftly working on transmutation, creating the metal while other sets of robotics hands were drawing runes and magic circles at rapid speeds and insane precision.
The black-haired girl next to me wanted to see the magic behind the hood. So, I brought her to the assembly line downstairs to see how Aurora does her magic.
"...Nothing of that sort exists… but, we do have a list of people which the other pantheons don't like and want to make them disappear.
As you can imagine no god will lower themself to go on a manhunt just because some human crossed one of them. No, they either smite one before he leaves the Pantheon controlled territory or simply notify the other Pantheon about this specific person. As you can imagine that kind of people becomes something similar to the terrorists in the mundane world."
"Meaning that they won't be missed…"
Serafall instantly understood what I meant.
"You wish to hunt them? I see… you want 'interesting' people… I assume you don't mind doing this for devils first right?"
Snort
"I only care that I am getting something, Serafall. If the person has an interesting gear I will deal with it and I will keep the gear to myself. If this benefits the devil kind then so be it…
After all...one man's trash is another one's treasure… who knows maybe that person will help everyone by dying and giving me his gear, leading to some nice invention."
I said with a shrug as I watched the helmet taking shape. Freedom always looks amazing...especially when it is real and functioning.
"I see… so, you don't mind getting used?"
"Your way of thinking is wrong. I am not getting used. I am quite frankly stealing what was your race's beforehand. It's something along the lines of acquiring an item that belonged to you but I am keeping it to myself in the end.
And the best part in all of this is that I will be getting my precious 'battle' data." The way I mocked the word 'battle' was not missed by Serafall.
In the end, there is no such thing as a battle to me. According to my calculations, only a God-King level being could do something to me for the first 3 minutes before I fully erase him.
That is if my predicted curve of strength is what Serafall is telling me…
And of course… God-Kings don't just walk around randomly…
"I see… the way you put it makes us look bad for losing our assets…" She sighed in a resigned tone.
"Very well. I will compile a list of wanted and 'interesting' people." She said with a nod, before continuing to watch the assembly now with a thoughtful look.
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While Serafall was doing her thing, my Scale mail was ready and so were the weapons. Although the test flight was not needed… I did it anyway… nonetheless the new layer design allowed me to reach speeds beyond Match 5 and the jet lag was cut by more than half.
While this was great and all, I can only do it in a straight line, otherwise it will rattle me quite a bit.
This pushed me to delve into something new… genetics…
With the help of Grayfia and Venenala, I quickly got a mountain of books on that subject…
The moment I saw them, I realised that it's a lot… genetics is a very big branch of biology.
Although I had already known that...Seeing and knowing are two different things…
And so, I quickly started reading through it. This was actually my first time studying after my reincarnation. Before this, I had only revised some things...like robotics, Although Freedom was a scale mail and not really a robot. I still went through the servo motors and joints functioning.
To increase the punching, lifting and running force plus with the help of magic, the force behind those becomes much bigger.
Nonetheless, it was nothing more than a light read compared to this.
Before I could properly get into it though, I received the hit book from Serafall.
First I checked to see if I knew anyone from the books or the show. I do remember there was a Khaos Brigade or something?
'A cheap name rip off from Mortal Kombat but, they were proper terrorists with alot of interesting people. Originally, supposedly led by the Infinity Dragon. A Dragon God which likes to look like a small girl… well, until she halved… infinity halving… I have no idea how that is possible…'
For a moment I thought about this nonsense about halving a being of concept. The only thing I could think of was that she lost some power over infinity. Meaning that the curse made her lose some control over specific power. If this was true then I could do that to a bunch of annoying beings and make them lose power over their concepts.
'Well, I can check this later, for now… some manhunt…'
My eyes landed on the first pictures of the possible targets...
'Well, well, Serafall is not holding back on her 'requests', the first peoples are the old Satan faction…'
'Hmm...their powers and abilities are not that interesting and they have no Sacred Gears obviously…' After checking those I went over to the next page…
Checking the targets and moving on…
Eventually arriving on something fascinating…
'And what do we have here… Cao Cao… the descendant of the original Cao Cao. The one who has the True Longinus…
Heh… wanted by The Church and, by extent, Heaven for the Spear.
Isn't it kind of amusing how Heaven remains 'pure' while the Church does all the dirty deeds of Heaven? This way if they get caught red-handed they can always blame the church for acting out of the line.
So, sneaky and so outdated… or is it just me? Anyways, we can leave Cao Cao for later, knowing him, he will just do what his ancestors did…
Collecting talent… or in this case, humans with Sacred Gears.
For now I will need more info on him. When he has that Hero Band of his then I will swoop in, until then I shall collect the stranglers.'
My gaze ended up on a stray devil lurking in Siberia…
He has the interesting and quite common gear with the name of Sword Birth.
The creation of Demonic Swords. Not going to lie, this was nothing more than a confirmation. I already have several theories on how these 'incredible' swords were made.
So, this hunt for the stray is nothing more than to find the truth… I will make Sera find a little more on Cao Cao…
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