~Soutarou POV, scene continues~
Soutarou shrugged and wrapped his arms around her before plopping his chin on her head as the pair continued to watch the show…
But at some point Soutarou’s gaze became distracted…
‘Haha…
It finally happened did it?’
‘Finally…
after nearly ten years in the making…’
‘Ah my omniscient friends from above, or as I prefer my internal demons…
You’re probably wondering what’s going on right?’
‘Well to explain a bit…
My name is Soutarou Takashina.
Or rather Soutarou Valefor.
The Heir of the Valefor and Marbas Houses.
The former 6th and 5th ranked Houses of the underworld respectively…’
‘I’m a Satan Class pure blooded devil…
The fiance of Sona Sitri…
hmm…?
What else…
Ah!’
‘Right…
Basically if you were paying attention earlier you’d have noticed that I mentioned that Rias dealt with that Flaming Chicken…’
‘Yep.
She dealt with Riser by herself.
Guess those comments from my last life about Rias with a bit of training beating Riser 10 times out of 10 really were right.’
‘I suppose I forgot to mention that, right?
That’s right my friends.
I’m a reincarnator from Earth, or the Blue Star as the chinese would’ve put it…’
‘As for why I’m talking to you?
Well that’s because…
This thing finally arrived.’
[Welcome User, Soutarou Takashina.
Ark Dominion is now online.]
[System Functions: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, User Display (Online)]
[System Awakening…
| Percentage: 1%]
‘You’re probably thinking ah great another system…
Well…
You’re right, but also wrong…’
‘You see about fifteen years ago…
I gained consciousness in this world.
And as any good reincarnator I silently began training and growing my strength…
Which is why when I was about seven years old I had an epiphany…’
‘I have no system, no true cheats, or golden finger as the chinese would put…
But I have an immense bloodline, and an immense amount of demonic power.’
‘Not to mention one of the most absurd devil lineages…
Anyways the main point is I knew I had no true cheats and I wasn’t going to wait for a god or some ROB (Random Omnipotent Being) to hand me the key to success…’
‘After all we can’t expect God to do all the work especially not when I’m a devil and…
You know he’s been dead for about a thousand years…’
‘You might’ve noticed I didn’t react even though I’m a devil in DxD who mentioned God and technically I should have a headache from that…
We’ll get there in a moment.’
‘So coming back to Ark Dominion…
All those years ago I had the demonic thought…
If God is dead and Michael can’t use it properly…
What if I hijack it?’
‘Truly a devil through and through…
So with a bit of help through my nee-chan, Lavinia Reni.
I got in contact with Azazel, as you just so happen to do…’
‘And bought a singular sacred gear from him and that’s all…
You see instead of the normal shenanigans of learning how to modify them from him…
I did it myself…
From scratch…
Which in retrospect I admit was kind of stupid…
But thanks to a silly mistake or rather a bit of unknowing genius…’
‘The sacred gear I chose was one suited to light and holy powers.
A low class sacred gear named Light’s Sanctuary…
Basically it just makes a weak defensive barrier and can purify demonic things and inside its barrier it can slow bleeding, but it can’t heal.
Basically worthless unless you’re dealing with the lowest of low class devils.’
‘Trash sacred gear through and through…
Except for one teensy tiny detail…
You see the heaven system categorizes sacred gears differently and treats holy ones with a bit of special love especially when it reassigns them.
But that same system is now full of holes because Michael just ain’t the big G.’
‘So lo and behold…
a virus that travels back to the reassignment system all while actually being tethered to my soul.
Now I admit this also could’ve exploded in my face…
But fuck it.
We gamble.
And this…’
[User Status
Name: Soutarou Takashina (Valefor)
Race: Devil (100%)
Bloodline (s): Valefor & Marbas
Sacred Gear (s): Ark Dominion (Active, 1% Initialized) & The Devouring Gear (Dormant)
Tier Rating: A (Satan Class)
Reserve Rating: S++ (Energy Quantity on par with Peak Super Devils)
Combat Power: S (Effective Super Devil Combat Power)
Traits: “True Dragon,” “Dominator,” “Tinkerer,” “Resistance to Holy Power,” “Apostate Light,” “President’s Mandate,” and “Lion’s Gaze”
Unique Magics: “Abraxas,” “Dragonification,” “Multi Processing,” “Absolute Sensory,” and “Brain Box”
Peerage: Ingvild Leviathan (Queen), Valina Lucifer (Rook), Kuroka Toujou (Rook), Artoria Pendragon (Knight), Lavinia Reni (Bishop), Valerie Tepes (Bishop), Sakuya Lucifuge (Pawn), Mamako Takashina (Pawn), Le Fay Pendragon (Pawn)…
One Knight Piece & Five Pawn Pieces Remain Unassigned.
Status Panel End.]
‘…
Is the result… A very successful result if I must say so myself…
For ten whole years I had no clue whether it would work or not…
And looks like it worked spectacularly.’
‘You’re probably screaming, ah you lucksacking plot armored bastard.
Tut, tut.
No, no my friend as long as the gear reached the heaven system properly I was guaranteed a victory.
You see the race reassigning system of the sacred gears that was supposed to prevent devils, angels, dragons, and basically any race, but humans from getting sacred gears…
Is completely fried.’
‘As are many functions of the heaven system.
And so in that mess of errors, that’s the specific one that I targeted.
The filtering system.
But more specifically, not the output and assigning filtering system…
Instead, the returning filtering system…’
‘You see…
Every time a soul, or a gear, or anything returns to the heaven system it gets filtered to ensure the system keeps running.
It’s what’s keeping Michael’s brain from self imploding from the amount of information coming into the system as well as what protects heaven.’
‘But it has a tiny problem…
You see all of the things it rejects, used to be teleported out and returned to a designated warehouse for review, but that warehouse is locked to big G himself only and very isolated…
So it’s like a clogged pipe.
I knew that if Light’s Sanctuary made it, it would go into the overflow system, which is just floating around in the filtering system…’
‘And bam all of a sudden we’re in a free space, that’s usually not a bad thing…
until the gear has a design that allows it to use up my energy that I stored within it to jump from the free floating storage back into the redistribution line…
which leads straight to the heaven system’s central processor where a healthy big fragment of the big G remains.’
‘But here’s the best part that fragment has no consciousness just some basic programming, and that’s where most of the authorities of the heaven system are centered, on the Seventh Heaven…’
‘So my virus made it all the way there and injected itself into that lacking conscious area and hid itself and began using the innate feature that big G put into most low class Sacred Gears…
The ability to absorb either emotions or something much grander to refine itself and become a subspecies evolution.’
‘The catch is…
like sending a rover off to venus or mars I won’t know it landed until it sends back a message of its success…
So ten years later the first message finally arrived…
And Light’s Sanctuary it seems has absorbed enough of the heaven system’s authority to gain influence over it even after returning to me…
Which was also in its original modified programming…’
‘Heh.
And you’re probably thinking “oh but what about Michael?
Won’t he notice something is wrong?” Nope.
At max he’ll feel the central processor is gaining consciousness and automating features of the heaven system over the next few years.
Basically in his eyes it’ll be like big G is coming back to life in some form, when in reality…
It’s just a puppet a little devil like myself put there.’
‘Truly evil…’
‘But I also wonder what direction did this thing actually evolve towards?’
[Ark Dominion: Would the User like a tutorial?
Y/N]
‘Is that even a question?
Yes please~!’
[Ark Dominion: Initializing tutorial…]
[At current Ark Dominion is still processing the Authorities of Heaven.
Many features are unknown and unusable at present…]
[Main features accessible at the moment: progress of processing, user strength, trait descriptions, and the appraisal system.]
‘Oh?
I’d have thought that the appraisal system wouldn’t be active yet.
That’s good.’
[The appraisal system is in a Beta Mode.
Most of the libraries of Heaven are accessible and usable for this feature.
Note however that the appraisal system may be out of date due to the inability of Heaven to update its libraries after the fall of God of the Bible.]
‘Hmm…
Makes sense…’
‘Well might as well take a look at my traits then…’
[…
Traits: … “Resistance to Holy Power,” “Apostate Light,” “President’s Mandate,” and “Lion’s Gaze”
…]
[Resistance to Holy Power: You are a Valefor, a descendant of the Angels that whispered rebellion in the ears of Helel Morningstar herself…]
‘Wait her?
Wasn’t Lucifer supposed to be a guy?
Whatever let’s keep reading…
I’m sure it’s just DxD logic…’
[…
As a Valefor, the ones named the Usurpers.
You inherit the power of Light and the resistance to it, in the authority that they stole from heaven when they rebelled.
It is a lineage ability of the Valefor House.]
‘Ah yes…
I forget this bit of lore about my family…’
‘What was it?
Ah right…
Amongst Devils, unlike the majority…
Or at least those outside the Original Devil Kings…
Basically unlike those who were birthed from the creation between Lilith and the Original Lucifer…’
‘House Valefor originated as Angels who degraded into Devils much like the Original Lucifer herself…
Though as an angel I suppose that her name was once Helel Morningstar…
And like this description…
House Valefor are The Usurpers…
And we’re the very family who origin starts in an angel, named Aurelia, who whispered thoughts of rebellion into the ears Helel Morningstar and questioning of God’s love for his first creation the Angels themselves…
Through that they became banished by God of the Bible himself alongside Lucifer out of Heaven…
And later they became what is now Devilkind instead of Fallen Angels…’
‘I should add that none of those angels who became devils actually fell…
No in fact they all retained their rights as angels because they didn’t violate that code that God of the Bible had set, instead before they could fall…
They cast aside the light and embraced devilkind just to spite big G.’
Soutarou’s eyes turned to another panel that read out the description for another trait…
[Apostate Light: this power no longer belongs to the light of heaven as even in banishment they, the Valefor family, managed to steal a fragment of heaven itself.
After the fall of God of the bible this ability further evolved to possess Black Holy Light.
Black Holy Light damages devils like normal holy light, but has a sinister effect of also damaging angels, fallen angels the same way.
It is a mutation lineage ability of the Valefor House.]
‘Hehe…
I truly have to thank my ancestors for working so hard for me…
Then again this very trait is why the Angels, Fallen Angels, and even other Devils hunted our numbers down to…
Well just me…’
‘Well that combined with this other power is why even without a sacred gear I was alright, but now I’m destined to be the strongest hehe!’
[President’s Mandate: Allows the user to issue short orders that affect reality.
For example, a user saying the order ‘heal’ would heal a person, however saying ‘I want all the beautiful women in the world’ absolutely wouldn’t work.
Simple orders are possible, but instantaneously killing someone isn’t.
At most when fighting someone of similar level it can be used to weaken, temporarily paralyze, or confuse.
Notably a decree can accelerate, reverse, or impose a process the user understands, but it cannot produce an undefined miracle.
A lineage ability of the 5th Ranked Pillar House of Devils, the Marbas House.]
[Lion’s Gaze: Allows the user to see through illusions, transformations, cloaking and magical formations.
Additionally Lion’s Gaze allows the user to perceive the true structure and condition of whatever they observe.
A lineage ability of the 5th Ranked Pillar House of Devils, the Marbas House.]
‘Heh.
The Lion’s Gaze is the very ability that let me infuse all that nonsense into Ark Dominion in the first place…’
‘Though Ark Dominion really wasn’t lying when it said it’s information was outdated, huh?
I’m guessing none of the Devil Civil War time period is included in it’s information…’
Soutarou glanced at one last thing before reading the line…
[…(Dormant)…
]
And just sighing before thinking to himself, ‘Well whatever…
At least that one will eventually work too…
For now I just need to bide my time for a few more months and then everything will work out perfectly…’
Soutarou focused back on the TV, before glancing down at Rias who excitedly watched, before rubbing his chin against her crimson haired head earning him a nuzzle, before the pair watched the anime together while cuddling…
~Soutarou POV later that night at home~
“Ahhh that hits the spot…
Nothing beats a long bath after a day of lazing around…
Truly bliss…”
Soutarou relaxed and held his hand out to the light in happiness and clenched and unclenched his hand a few times.
He left his hand up as he reminisced about the struggle up to this point…
Before suddenly a flash of pink energy blinded him.
And as he clenched his hand he felt something extremely soft and supple…
*Squish*
Soutarou blanked and glanced up…
Soutarou’s eyes snapped open and he found himself face to face with an innocent faced beautiful girl, with bright emerald eyes, light pink hair, and most importantly a tail, a black heart shaped tail.
Not to mention… The girl was buck naked.
Soutarou’s hand stayed on her breast for a while longer as his brain shut off in sheer shock.
‘L-Lala Satanline D-deviluke?!?!
I-isn’t this DxD?!?!?
Don’t tell me…!’
‘This is a true crossover universe?!?!
It’s not a crossover centered on DxD…?!?!?!
Shit…!
My calculations didn’t account for that…!
FUCK!’
‘Damn…
Shit…
Fuck…
Hahah…
Hahaha…
I messed up…
I really messed up…’
‘HAHAHAHAA…
FUCK!’
‘Heh…
HAHAHA….
Man… I Really Thought I Could Relax…
Until An Alien Arrived…!’
***Author’s Note: Prologue End***