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The One Above The Heavens Chapter 20
🕑 Added 2024-10-19 05:03:32 +0000 UTCSoon enough my whole group including Mariya Yuri had arrived to my throne room with everyone assembled I began the obvious discussion that was to happen.
"Now these tables contain extremely valuable and advanced technology from another world line which I got after Alaya and Gaia decided to make a Counter Guardian out of me for giving Gaia a bit of a sun burn in killing Angra Mainyu." I explained briefly.
"All this technology is decades if not centuries away from our own development as our own timelines technological development is hampered by the stranglehold the oil and coal industries have over our government." I continued before explaining the hardware I had collected.
This was still the year 2004... The XBOX 360 wasn't slated to come out till next year, and the PS3 not even till 2006, most technologies relied on Megabyte storage and their RAM and GPU's? Laughable compared to Cyberpunks technology around the same year.
As by 2005 the Cyberpunk universe already had the industry standard of storage memory being in the terabytes range. And their RAM,GPU,CPU specs were dozens of times better than what we had currently.
And going off the money Nivida could make off of having a partial monopoly on the GPU market alone from my past life... If I owned the entire 'IT' market for the world, I would soon control much of the business world.
Literally, everyone except for Mariya looked dazed and confused as Medea looked at me with a dull gaze and said dryly. "Jake, the grail only downloaded the technical know-how to use a basic wall phone into us... Everything you are saying makes zero sense."
I brushed a hand across my face before I groaned and focused on Mariya. "Mariya then this will have to be on the History Compilation Committee then... Actually, that is for the best as this is going to be something the Japanese government will need to get in on to build the factories and such."
Mariya squirmed under my gaze before she swallowed and asked quietly. "My lord... What specifically do you want your subjects to do?"
Unlike Godou, Mariya actually still had her strong Campione phobia when it came to me. As I was much more of a natural Devil King, who didn't mess around nor deny my status like Godou did... So I needed to wear the kiddie gloves when handling her.
I nodded at her question for clarity and I spoke calmly. "I want Japan's best engineer's to carefully... Very carefully go through the first stages of technology here and adapt our own to fit its much higher specifications in order for Japan and the technology company the History Compilation group will create to take over the technology sector of the world."
My eye twitched with myself looking outwards with a small scowl as yet another magical pulse rang out.
And it got to the point that I looked to Rin and asked flatly. "Rin, aren't you sensing these magical pulses as the Second Owner or something?"
Rin's face tightened before she hurriedly shook her head.
I held up a hand to forestall any excuses before I shook my head and said dryly. "You and Atalanta can check after this meeting. Anyway so Erica, while the History Compilation Committee works on the technological side, the Copper Black Cross will be responsible for dealing with the magical side and keeping mages from stealing these treasures they will be studying."
My lips twitched as I imagined my 'brother' that damned thief Black Prince Alec 'borrowing' my technology. But what was much more likely, was his Royal Arsenal faction trying to 'borrow' my technology instead.
"As let me be clear... This technology will be the future, it will make a company at least dozens of trillions each year. If they can control the manufacturing and selling of all the major components and parts." I spoke seriously.
I was about to continue but another pulse of mana rang out that cut me off the moment I opened my mouth... And that was it.
"You know what... Please excuse me, Mariya get the best engineers and technical innovators the beginning technology over here while leaving the rest here. I have something to deal with." I said with annoyance dripping from each word as I left the throne room.
[Are you alright Jake?] Medea asked using the Master-Servant connection we had.
I grunted and then sent back with my annoyance clear in my voice. [I am being constantly distracted by an obnoxious powerful mana pulse that is driving me up the damned wall.]
Medea's robes made billowing noises as she gently flew behind me catching up with her saying quietly. "Abruptly ending the meeting when only Mariya truly understood the topic of the technology wasn't that kind."
I rolled my eyes and said dryly. "You are from thousands of years ago, and Rin's idea of technological innovation is a spin dial phone... Only Mariya and Sakura have an idea of technology with Illya only catching up slightly because of how much brain-rotting TV she watches."
Medea giggled and said with some amusement. "Ah yes, Illya... She wanted me to make her an enchanted outfit that will allow her to transform into a magical girl with a large garish wand to act as a magical catalyst and casting tool."
I stopped on a dime with my eyes staring out blankly into the distance as I entered the gardens and I slowly looked at Medea who raised an eyebrow at my devastated expression.
Which only ended when I spoke with some amount of desperation. "Wait... She 'wanted' Does that mean she changed her mind?" I asked with desperate hope.
But Medea being the cruel greek heroine shattered my hopes and dreams as she said weakly at seeing my devastated expression. "Uhh... No? I already made it, is it such an issue for her to be flying around the estate chasing her maids?"
I sagged slightly before I said. "No... But it could be the pathway to a bad end timeline."
And seeing Medea's dumbfounded expression, I just shook my head and then I was flying in the air with a charm around me so the mortals couldn't see me as I flew towards where I felt the mana pulses.
The flight was quick with my speed... Not to mention the fucking source of the mana pulses was like literally two streets over from the Matou Mansion.
And it was the closeness that really irritated me. Like who fuck did they think they were? Being a mage and intruding upon my domain, and not only not announcing themselves like a normal person but they were annoying me with their damned pulses of magic!
I came down onto the smaller mansion with a frown as I made a hand-waving motion as my hand carved through the admittedly powerful wards around the mansion.
And as soon as I removed the wards my frown turned dark and my mana flared as I felt some corrupted mana that had a tint of divinity to it.
'A heretic god here? No... More like an artifact or something.' I thought as I used my magic to form a massive ethereal hand that grabbed the roof of the house as I flew above it, And then with a loud crashing and shattering noise, I ripped the top of the house straight off the top.
I looked through the rooms of the second floor as I had ripped the attic and the third floor away as I felt the signature was instead on a lower floor.
And as I took in the rooms... I froze as my eyes saw something I most certainly didn't fucking expected with Medea muttering as she also saw my target.
"Oh? So that is the mystery Saber that has been summoned?" Medea spoke as I gazed at what could only be 'Lancer Artoria Pendragon' fully grown and all.
But she was laying like a sleeping corpse across a bed while the damned mage who had been making the mana pulses sat frozen in fear within her wheelchair as she was working on a piece of corrupted gold that had a hint of divinity in it.
I softly came down in a landing within the room and I idly swiped through more wards that broke harmlessly across my insane magical resistance and I gave the somewhat... Familiar looking mage a scowl as I said flatly.
"You aren't a member of the Copper Black Cross, nor Japan's History Compilation Organization... Give me a reason why I shouldn't turn you inside out for annoying me with those damned mana pulses and being an intruder." I said bluntly.
The woman took a deep breath as she spun in her wheelchair towards me and spoke weakly. "I... Merlin said I would be able to enchant this piece of Das Rheingold to earn your approval."
My form froze in its place. I slowly looked between the gold that I previously wanted and needed for my Divine Mountain project and I looked at big titty Artoria who was seemingly locked in an enchanted deep sleep while wearing a lewd sleeping dress.
"Fucking Merlin." I sighed drawing a hand across my face before I shook my head and looked at the mage.
"I assume you are Merlin's mana supplier? What is your name mage?"
She actually pouted slightly with her saying with annoyance. "I am Fiore Forvedge Yggdmillennia! And I am Merlin's master, not merely her mana supplier... Respectively Lord Barriss."
I shook my head as I inspected Artoria with my inherited knowledge that came as the Jade Emperor and hummed at the powerful magic keeping her asleep. "Yes... Like you have any true leash on Merlin. In any case, so what does Merlin want? Did you bring the Das Rheingold that was stolen from me by the Mages Association to earn a place within my holdings?"
Of course, the real pressing question was. Where was Merlin themselves in all this? Obviously, they would have felt their masters fear as I ripped their house asunder but where was the damned incubus?
But either way, Fiore spoke quietly as I leaned away from Artoria to let Medea inspect her with Fiore's voice tightening as my gaze landed solely upon her. "Merlin said she needed to head over to check on something in the next town over in Misaki Town... Something about a special pair of eyes and dead apostles getting rowdy."
Hearing that... I truly frowned darkly as I realized Merlin meant the events of Tsukihime were coming up.
And a literal half dozen of Dead Apostle ancestors duking it out and causing massive damages was exactly what I didn't want as that could fuck with the leylines... Leylines that I needed to remain steady while I worked on my divine mountain project.
'Gods be damned... I still got Gilgamesh and Athena to deal with. Running to a whole other city isn't what I need to deal with.' I thought with a frown.
But moving on from the multiple walking nukes that were going to be fighting in the next city over... I asked Fiore then. "Well, lead me to the Das Rheingold. And your offenses will be swept under the rug, and I won't be giving you any trouble for the value of that gift."
Fiore sagged slightly in relief and she nodded with her wheeling herself towards the exit of the room with her saying quietly. "Merlin said that she wanted you to take Artoria as well... Saying that she can only be awoken by a lover's kiss with Campione grade divine mana to overwrite her spells and the effects of Avalon."
My lips twitched as I said dryly. "Merlin wants me to give her a mana transfer via a kiss... Which will literally make her my knight due to myself having Verethragna's Aspects. Merlin is already up to playing their tricks I see... Not to mention how they haven't teleported back after I violently shredded your home's wards."
Which plainly meant that Merlin was hiding from my righteous punishment that would come. First they have a literal cripple waiting for me to earn sympathy points, then they bribe me with the Das Rhinegold I needed, and then for better or ill they throw Artoria into my lap.
All of this can be summed up with the statement... 'Fucking Merlin'
-
Getting the Das Rhinegold back home wasn't an issue with me taking it away in my expanded bag and then with that it was obvious I couldn't leave Fiore on her own as a cripple with Merlin of all people.
And of course, Artoria was coming with me as well... Not like I was going to let Gilgamesh molest her in her sleep or something.
'Actually would Gilgamesh do such a thing with how they are in a chicks body?" I mused before shaking my head as Medea got Fiore and Artoria settled in the Matou Mansion.
"Sakura, Rin, lets go the extended care facility where your mom is." I spoke as I put that previous stress behind me while I noted a few mortals and several mages had come into the mansion from History Compliation Committee and the Copper Black Cross.
The two sisters perked up hearing my words and I smiled saying. "I did say I would go after the meeting didn't I? I admittedly did get a bit hung up but I won't be made a liar if I can help it."
Sakura came in for a soft hug around my chest with her saying softly. "I believed you Jake... Lets get going then!" She spoke with more excitement at the end.
I then got onto my phone and messaged one of Erica's maids to drive us there as I didn't want to fly there and just wanted to spend some time with Sakura and Rin.
Rin however being the tsundere she was wasn't able to say her thanks so easily so she just pivoted on each hip as she said quietly. "Yeahhh... I believed in you as well."
I knew she was thankful and thats all I needed. So I just nodded and said. "Alright, lets get moving to the garage, one of Erica's maids will be driving us there."
We soon left the mansion with the three of us piling into the back of one of the armored and magically shielded SUV's the Copper Black Cross had at the estate now with the people moving back and forth on and off the property.
With myself relaxing in the back of the SUV with my hands around the waists of both of the girls... Living the best life I could honestly.
But I did make conversation to keep my hands from wandering from their waists.
"So Rin how has the work I gave you been going? Have you managed to create the rechargable spell matrix's into the gems yet?"
Rin threw me a dirty look from the side before she pouted and said. "No... My Average One magical energy which carries all the elements makes it alot harder because the spell matrix will collapse if uneven amounts of different elemental mana enter the spell matrix!"
I nodded gently and said. "You need to use a filter Rin, push your mana through the filter so only a single elemental type will output and it will make it much easier... Think of it as using a paint brush to only paint with a single color of paint."
Rin's pout deepened as she muttered. "Making such a catalyst isn't so easy."
My hand on her waist sidled up to her head which I patted while I said gently. "The best things in life aren't easy... But should you accomplish this project, you will have something the Tohsaka family can be proud of for countless generations as such gems would be close to True Magic."
As Rin beamed at the thought of having such a feat under her beat to lord over lesser mages. I refocused on Sakura who had a slight pout at me paying attention to her older sister.
So I gave her waist a slight squeeze and I whispered into her ear. "Love you Sakura."
Nothing else had to be said with the purple-haired beauty. She just relaxed against me with her moving my hand so it wasn't around her waist but instead in her lap so she could hold my hand with both of her own.
And so the ride went nice and calmly with us heading towards the long-term care hospital where Aoi Tohsaka was obviously kept for her traumatic brain injury at the hands of Kariya Matou like a full decade ago.
Once we reached the hospital Rin took over, she hypnotized the nurses and doctors working at the hospital to let me come see her as there was apparently some issue with myself not being related to the family.
Either way within a couple of minutes we were in the room with Ao Tohsaka.... Her hair was naturally a soft dark brown, and her dull brown eyes stared past me and her daughters seemingly without recognizing them in the slightest.
'Hmm, the magus bloodline buried within her has kept her healthy at the least. Along with the center having decent doctors who have made sure she hasn't atrophied into a wreck.' I mused as I took Aoi Tohsaka's small hand into my own and ran my mana through her body to scope her out internally.
And after my mana entered her mind I began speaking softly. "So her mind obviously is degraded from the strangling incident... So what I will do is bring her mind back to full health and jolt her memories back to life so her personality will be at the front with her blank memories of seeing you two over the years will fill her mind with who you both are."
I imagine that Rin and Sakura both would be in rather a foul mood if their mother... Just didn't recognize them in their late teen years.
Aoi's soul itself was revitalized and I pulled back my hand and stood up before looking at Rin and Sakura. "Alright, her mind is coming back. Don't overwhelm her and both of you keep her relaxed." I spoke before I moved to the exit and said.
"I will leave you both to spend some time with her... Don't argue between the two of you, I will take you over my knee." I said firmly towards Rin more than anything but both girls flushed as they looked between me and their mother who was rapidly blinking to awareness.
-
From there and with Rin and Sakura being well out of the way. I decided now was the perfect time to go meet with the King... Queen? Of Heroes. So I flew at high speeds across the city towards the old Fuyuki Church where I could feel Gilgamesh's divinity-tinged mana signature lounging about.
Gilgamesh was sprawled out across a well-padded sofa on the back patio of the church seemingly basking in the sun and eating grapes as she lazily stared up at me as though she was just waiting for me to arrive.
And Atalanta was very much right... Gilgamesh was 'VERY' much a woman now for some ungodly reason. Actually with Angra Mainyu incarnating her into that female body that was indeed a very 'godly' thing for the god of all the world's evils to do.
"So you wished to speak with me Gilgamesh, King of Heros?" I spoke as I landed before the blond topless woman who sat up.
And I hid a bit of a knee-jerk reaction as she summoned a Gate and when only a golden flagon carrying wine and two cups came out with her flicking one of the gold and gem-encrusted cups to me. I just raised an eyebrow as she set the flagon between us after she poured herself a drink.
"Drink." Gilgamesh said simply as she sipped from the flagon and knowing she wouldn't poison me out of her own sense of pride I poured myself a drink and I took in the beautifully scented wine.
I gently took a sip and I could taste just how beautifully prepared the wine was with Gilgamesh speaking slowly. "This wine was created by a family of my own personal servants millennia ago back into Uruk... But to this very day, that family line still, still is creating wine in the land of Iran but in secret as the ruling religion of today doesn't appreciate good wine."
Gilgamesh's eyes were darkened with the passage of time as she gazed into the cup for a long while. And then she spoke again. "At first when I was summoned into the mortal world... I was disappointed in humanity, it had grown fat and weak with the gods and monsters having retreated from the mortal world."
But then Gilgamesh actually chuckled as she spoke. "But I was wrong haha! The gods and divine monsters hate humanity for daring to push them out of the mortal world to say nothing of the collective power humanity has over their forms that they cannot resist. But still... The Campione is what stayed my hand at eradicating the chaff of humanity."
"You see a bit of yourself in my siblings. The way we spat in the face of divinity and took our own steps to defy fate in slewing a god with our talent, luck, and determination." I spoke softly with a small smile crossing my face as I took a deeper drink of the wine.
There was a pause as Gilgamesh considered my words as I knew a part of her would be insulted to be compared to anyone else... As Gilgamesh was 'da strongest' or whatever.
But after a minute she shrugged and said plainly. "Your opinion isn't incorrect. However, I did request your presence for a reason."
That whole 'your opinion isn't incorrect' meant that I was right but Gilgamesh didn't want to actually admit that I was right directly.
Either way. Gilgamesh just shifted slightly so she could rest her chin on a fist as she gazed at me judgingly. And after a minute I asked bluntly. "You have called me here to... Judge or otherwise see if I was worthy correct?"
Gilgamesh raised a golden eyebrow at my words before she snorted and said with amusement. "Yes haha! That is exactly why I called you here, the rest of your siblings are great warriors, and people worthy of my respect even if they aren't true kings. But you..."
Her crimson eyes lasered in on me before she said slowly. "You on the other hand have taken the name of kingship. You have already all but conquered this land with the magical side capitulating to your mere presence. So I wanted to take the measure of the only true Devil King among the Campione."
I didn't bother to ask what she thought of me. That didn't matter honestly. If she didn't like me she would have attempted to just kill me and I would have killed her unless she managed to get Ea out before I could kill her.
No there was just one problem with Gilgamesh's thought process. "You do have one thing mistaken Gilgamesh. I am not a mere Devil King, I am going to be the Devil Emperor who will take all of Asia into my grasp within the next couple of years at most."
She raised an eyebrow and my own face curled into an amused smile as she retorted. "Only all of Asia? Seems rather uninspired to me."
With that same amused smile I shrugged and said frankly. "I am powerful enough to shatter the armies of the mortals... Gaia and Alaya already threw me at another world to cull their predations upon the worlds natural resources. And frankly unless Atlas uses their Seven Forbidden Weapons I do not fear humanity and its weapons."
There was a pause before Gilgamesh hummed and then spoke frankly. "Then Jake... Why do you wish to take upon the role of Emperor of Mankind?"
I remained silent for a long moment before I slowly spoke likewise frankly. "Not only because I just want to. Inheriting the Jade Emperor's will and complete powers demands me to at least be a worthy emperor. But also Humanity is fucked in the future with a dozen apocalypses rounding the corner."
Gilgamesh actually chuckled and it was low and dark with each laught making her ample perfectly shaped breasts bounce with each full laugh. "Oh yes that is very true Jake. That is another reason why I am relaxing here not causing a ruckus across the world... I wish to watch as humanity struggles to defeat a half dozen Beasts, alien gods, and the King of Steel!"
I deadpanned at Gilgamesh before I shrugged and said with amuesment. "Well so long as you aren't going to make my trails even more difficult. Then I will likewise leave you alone as well."
With Gilgamesh sarcastically smiling as she toasted me while rolling her eyes as though dismissing me as a threat.
But I knew she was ready to blast me with her Gate's that could open at a split second notice should I become overly hostile.
With that I slowly drank the rest of the wine in my cup. Making to sure to respect the drink and make sure I tasted it's finest notes before I gently placed the cup aside from me and stood up.
And without a word, I flew up into the air and away from Gilgamesh's church with us both having an unspoken agreement between us. Gilgamesh was going to relax in comfort while she got to watch Humanities struggles. And I wouldn't have to worry about Gilgamesh trying to pull my kingdom out from under me.
Frankly, it was the best deal I was going to get with the 'King of Heroes' Their pride was unmatched and if they simply weren't going to get in my way actively then that was more than enough frankly.
'Now, I just have to deal with Athena who is stalking me in the shadows.' I thought before I had a powerful and yet funny thought strike me.
What if I just... Skipped over to the next major town and went to town on the Dead Apostle Ancestors that dared invade my kingdom. And if I was lucky, get my hands on Merlin so I could make the damned incubus fix Artoria without me needing to molest her in her sleep.
Comments
SaffireSpirit13
Well Artoria may appreciate that Jake doesn’t immediately want to molest her, and if she hears he Bullied Merlin into fixing her up without it, they’ll start on good footing with each other.
Goddess of Victory
TFTC out of curiosity, is it Merlin Proto, a gender bent Merlin, or Lady Avalon?
