“Restrain him.” I ordered and the monsters shot golden ropes which tied the stray devil’s hands and legs.
It flailed in fear as it watched me standing up and moving towards it.
“Wait!!! Wait!!! I know secrets about the devils, yes, I know about magic too! Magic works on imagination, you just need a magic circle and imagine whatever you want, and magic happens!” The stray devil shouted, spouting anything he could to save his life.
“That only works for devils, not humans, human magic doesn’t rely on just imagination.” I stated calmly, by now, I was certain that this devil really did not know anything, his fighting style was limited to brawling since the rook piece boosted his strength.
“I am a sacred gear user too!! That is why I was made a devil. I can become your subordinate too, my sacred gear is called twice critical, it doubles my strength, it is very powerful.”
A sacred gear user, I didn’t check for that…
“Twice critical huh, it’s the most common sacred gear, but I gues it’s better than nothing.” I muttered.
There were method to extract sacred gears in the anime, right?
Which means they can be extracted, now I don’t really know how to do it, maybe the annihilation maker could do it.
Annihilation maker: a monster with the ability to extract sacred gears.
And, it failed.
I could sense it beyond the limits of annihilation maker in its current state, and would need to reach the balance breaker state.
“Sorry about that, it seems I am currently unable to extract sacred gears… So, considering that you are indeed not as useless as I expected. You have been spared.” I sighed.
“What? Thank you!!! I will do my best, my lord! I will capture mages and gather more magic for you!” The stray devil pledged without a second thought, his action so convincing that one might think he is loyal beyond belief.
“Yeah no. You will not be doing any capturing. In fact, you will not be doing much if anything. Because…”
Annihilation maker: suspended animation gun monster.
It was this monster meant for containment which hit it, since I am unable to do anything about his sacred gear now, it’s better to store him until I can.
Annihilation maker: digging monster, capable of digging the soil proficiently.
Annihilation maker: Construction monsters, specialized in all construction procedures.
I intend to create an underground base right under my mansion compound, barriers can indeed solve most of the problems but having an underground base gives an extra natural security, and it’s really cool too.
With thousands of monsters at work simultaneously, along with their supernatural powers, an multilayered base was dug within an hour.
And at the most bottom layer, which was in fact several hundred meters underneath, was a prison, meant to detain unstable factors like this stray devil right here.
Once I have a bit more financial freedom, I would equip this base completely with technological components, but for now, monsters would have to do.
Just keeping this underground base operational required hundreds of monsters functioning at all times, some emitted light, some acted as elevators, and most were there for security.
‘It would seem there is nothing else to do…
hunting stray devils again might cause suspicions, one stray devil suddenly missing is nothing, but if several of them started missing, then anyone with half a brain would start suspecting and raise vigilance.’
With all that done, I returned back to my normal life, if I don’t make noise, and hide myself with proper precautions, no one is going to disturb me.
The stray devil might not have been of much use, but one thing can be inferred from him that, without the exception of some hidden forces, which might exist, London is, for the most part, a starter village type place.
It seems not being the major origin place of any religious pantheon has spared London from supernatural control, and the Pendragon family might not be anything noteworthy, but no one wanted to fight them for London.
“Are you really interested in investing in these tech companies, son? They do seem to have some potential, but they won’t give results anytime soon…” David Whitmore, my father, questioned skeptically.
You know, the usual shit, unless you are a master actor, the best you can pull of is being a genius kid, and since I was…
well, a ‘genius’, I had some say in the house.
Especially after being correct at several financial decisions, though, our family did not need to invest much since we were mostly old-money type rich, and had more hard assets than fickle stocks.
Not the best way of business, but hey, we believed that the land prices won’t suddenly drop to zero, right?
There’s also the buff of growing more expensive as time passes, which means, our wealth grows naturally, and even if we do make plentiful money, most of it is reinvested back into buying more real estate or precious metals and stones.
Though I am totally planning on buying a shit ton of Bitcoins and becoming even richer, they don’t happen to be a thing yet, and my knowledge about the financial markets of the late 20th century, was, at best, rudimentary.
“Doesn’t hurt to buy them when they are cheap, I believe they have great potential and would grow to a ridiculous level one day, so why waste an opportunity, after all, it’s just a million euros.” I stated, if my past self ever heard me mentioning a million euros this casually, I would probably slap myself.
“True enough, I guess. Another thing, why do you want to buy real estate in Japan? We don’t operate beyond Europe much, buying lands in Africa or America would be understandable, but Japan feels pointless, it is too far away and difficult to get into, they don’t want outsiders intruding much.”
David asked curiously, the conversation was totally unlike what one would expect from a father and his ten year old son.
“Japan… well, actually I just find Japan interesting, it’s pretty beautiful, and I want to go there, the architecture and culture is awesome.”
“So you just find Japan cool… I guess that figures, you are still just ten, it would be bad if you were acting smart all the time. And yeah, now that I think about it, Japanese girls are really beautiful too, maybe you have some vision. You really are my genius son.” David chuckled.
I sighed, then snitched, “Mom!”