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Last Day Bunker Chapter 6
🕑 Added 2024-12-08 12:44:40 +0000 UTCWe got to the bunker itself without any major issue thankfully, the sounds of my hybrid Jeep weren't loud enough to gain the attention of any of the Quiet Place aliens.
But still, I was a bit worried on how I was supposed to make contact with the supernatural side of the world as Harry Potter and Bleach were supposed to be part of this terrible mishmash of a universe.
Because JK Rowling most certainly didn't do any world-building so I had literally zero idea where the magical community was based off in America. I think I remember in the side novels of Grindelwald or whatever, they had a large population out in Massachusetts and New York.
But crossing the country right now was a fucking stupid idea. And B- I still had no idea where to look for wizards in those places. Hell for all I know, another Greater Demon was doing battle with wizards and Shinigami for those major cities.
And that thought about wondering where Wizard's and said Shinigami were given another point... Where the hell were they with all this shit happening? As I found a literal SCP-cursed object in a fucking pawn store. What else had leaked out of containment?
"Alright! So my Bunker has several floors to it. The first five basically are free to you girls to explore and use whatever you want. However, the seventh floor is locked for a good reason as it has important machinery and some other things." I explained with Sarah and Amelia nodded in understanding.
We were just getting out of my jeep at this point after pulling into the bunker and I remembered something and said. "Ah yes, and remember the small river we drove over just before entering the bunker? It's filled with rabid genetically modified super Pirahna's so do not under any circumstances go into the river."
Both girls shared a look before Amelia being a teenager just rolled her eyes and said flatly. "Sur whatever you say Jake."
But I held up a hand making the girls pause and look at me cautiously. "No, I am being serious. But either way, while I put the supplies away, you girls get the triplets settled. I need to show you both something important."
Sarah said somewhat comfortingly and disarmingly. "Alright Jake, I understand. Just let us put away our stuff. Where should we meet you?"
I nodded with a wry smile before I said. "Take the Elevator to the fourth floor from the third as that's where your living quarter's are. I will be down there when you are done."
We then split off as I went to the seventh floor and unlocked the door leading to my treasury and as I threw the jewelry and the SCP mask into the treasury room I saw that the mask was mounted on the wall with chains over it to keep it bound while all the jewelry fell into a pitiful pile next to the throne.
But that wasn't all. As I could feel it now, I could feel the smidgen of magical energy within myself that called to be used as a catalyst for the alchemical knowledge I had already collected.
And with that done I headed back up to the fourth floor which was the main floor of Alchemical experimentation while the second floor was a floor that was heavily shielded to prevent... Accident's from spilling out of the bunker and to the senses of being's and technology that could pick it up.
A few minutes later Sarah came through the elevator and I saw she was looking rather shifty so I looked at her wryly before I spoke. "Ok so maybe I was a little weird previously. But I need to show you... And Amelia something important but showing it to you first is fine."
Sarah took a deep breath and then she spoke flatly. "What do you need to show us? Your sex dungeon?"
My lips twitched at her words and I noticed she had a small knife in her right hand making me think back to when we first met. But I just shook my head and said rhetorically. "Alien's demons, and a zombie plague is before us. You would think I would be given a bit of lee way to be a bit weird."
And Sarah herself had a ghost of a smile come up before I took a breath and spoke. "Anyway, Sarah, I am an Alchemist. With this particular brand of magic, I can convert one material into another along with some other things primarily."
Before she could say anything, however, the ground below us sparked with lightning and the wood block in front of me burst into light before it changed shape and broke down as it became a small diamond as I ultra-compressed all of the wood's carbon compounds into their crystal form.
"See, or do I need to turn some stuff into gold?" I asked with a wry smile as I picked up the heavier diamond and frowned slightly as I realized with it's synthetic nature that it had no worth to my treasury.
Sarah literally seemed to sag in a couple of inches as she exhaled in relief. "Jeez Jake... I thought you were going to tell us we needed to sacrifice my triplets or something."
"No Sarah, I am not a psychopath thank you very much. Alright, you should go tell Amelia that I am an alchemist and very much not a Satanist or into dark ritual magic." I said more firmly with Sarah slowly nodding in agreement.
She then turned around while I grabbed a book about telekinesis magic I was very intrested in learning for a variety of reasons. And she left to go get her daughter presumably while I continued to read the book that explained how to cast telekinetic spell's to control objects.
Because being able to throw a van at a demon sounded like a beautiful idea obviously!
So I just waited patiently while reading and my patience soon paid off as Sarah came back with Amelia with said daughter looking more intrested than skeptical.
"So my mom says your actually an alchemist... Does that mean you could make the Philospher's Stone and become immortal?"
My lips twitched before I said dryly. "The Philospher's Stone is the peak of Alchemy that allows it's owner to bypass it's hard rule of Equilvalent Exchange. By using the constantly produced energy within the stone itself, that's it's main purpose. Making the Elixer of Immortaility is just a by-product of the 'stone' having infinite life energy as well."
"You didn't say if you could do it or not." Amelia said with a bit of snark making me give her a dull look.
Then I took a deep breath and said with a sigh. "Yes, yes I could. But right now it's not possible unless I get into some other forms of magic to act as the jump of power needed to create the Spark of Creation to form the Philospher's Stone."
At their confused expression I smiled and explained calmly. "The reason a true Philospher's Stone allows it's user to bypass the Equilvalent Exchange rule of Alchemy is due to it's own practically infinite stores of energy. But to achieve that, you need to basically create a spark of power with the same heat as the birth of the universe basically."
I shrugged and said helplessly. "Making a spark of the 'Creation' that created our universe, no matter how small, and for such a small amount of time. Still requires a great deal of power, that I am not intrested in playing around with right now."
Sarah and Amelia shared a look and then I clapped my hands and said. "Alright ladies, how about we go down to the fifth floor so I can show off the hydroponic's farm."
"Alright that sounds good." Amelia said with a small smile as she was clearly more of an outdoor's girl and we headed off to the elevator with the girls visibly more comfortable with me knowing although I had some magic...
I wasn't some extreme weirdo who was going to sacrifice them or something.
"So can you turn dirt into food or something?" Amelia asked curiously and I shook my head as I said calmly.
"Messing around making food to put in the human body with alchemy is a bad idea for a variety of reasons. I am shifting atom's taking them from the air, the surrounding ground and my own stores of energy to make the constructs I want. So how much of dirt is tangibly related to food?" I asked at the end with Amelia nodding in understanding.
But then as the elevator opened up to show the large room filled with dozen's of large tree's that will filled with 'ALL' the kinds of fruit and vegtable's growing from their branchs.
They froze at the sight of several branchs slighty sagging under the weight of full lush water melon's hanging from the branches.
"However, just because I can't make dirt into food. That doesn't mean that I cannot just... Modify already existing food producer's to create more food with the only issue being the amount of nutrients the food creator needs." I said shrugging before I jumped up to take a juicy apple from the tree and bit into it with a loud crunch.
Then before I could react a sharper feminine voice spoke out and I startled slightly. "Master! You are back haha!"
Looking down I noticed the genie style house fairy or whatever she was. And I nodded and said with a nod towards Sarah and Amelia. "Hello, these two and the other three little one's will also be living with us."
The house spirit nodded before she clapped her hands and said brightly. "I understand. Do you have need for me in anything?"
I shook my head as I really didn't need anything from the house spirit I really needed to give a name to.
The house spirit seeing I had nothing specific for it to do just nodded and popped away quickly making me wonder if she was related to House Elves in anyway? But either way I shrugged and said. "Anyway, yeah that's the spirit to this bunker that helps keep's it running and such."
After that, there was a bit of talking with Amelia and Sarah getting to know me better with the massive magic secret being let out of the bag. And then afterwards the two ladies when to go to sleep as today had been a very long day.
While I meanwhile went back to my telekinesis book as it was a style of magic that had a low entry point but a very high ceiling of power and skill.
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In a bright long hall, several form's more a dozen stood in two lines as they stood there stiffy in place. While an older man with power emananting from his every step took his position at the end of the line.
The older man began speaking with his voice filled with a core of steel and every figure in the room stiffened at the lack of argument in the voice. "Lieutenants of the Gotei Thirteen Court Squad's. It's time for you all to step up to your captain's shoes."
Head Captain Yamamoto's grizzled eyes wandered over the assembled lieutenants of the thirteen squads that made up the Soul Society's military arm that dealt with supernatural threats. And after his judging gaze he snorted as though he wasn't impressed.
Making more than one lieutenant's face twitch but they all knew to keep their silence. And after a moment Yamamoto began speaking calmly and coldly. "Today a major demonic incursion has begun even as an alien threat crashed landed across the majority of the northern Hemisphere in both Asia, Europe, and North America."
Yamamoto took a deep breath and then continued. "The majority of Captain's including myself are busy keeping the breach well secured. However in the initial breach, several lesser demon lord's managed to sneak into the mortal world. Your job's are to slaughter the demon lords and purge as many demons as you can within the next week."
A hand raised and Yamamoto gave the red haired form of Renji Abarai a shallow nod to go ahead. "Where are the mortal wizards in all of this? And have the Hollows become an issue while we have become busy?"
To which Yamamoto slowly nodded and said calmly. "The wizard's are paralyzed dealing with a massive breach to several containment zones dealing with cursed objects, creatures, and other abominations that come from outside of our dimension. Also they are dealing with a major undead rising that violently sparked to life, so they will be unable to assist us."
Soft whispers rang out as the lieutenants spoke among themselves as to how troublesome this was obviously was going to be. And after letting them speak for a moment, Yamamoto spoke firmly with his 'cane' making a loud cracking noise as it tapped the ground with force to silence the room.
"I will be assigning several cities to each of you that have noted large scale demonic appearances. As I said before though, you are to kill the demon lord above all as doing so will weaken all the other demons bound to their lord with it's death. Then you need to move on to the next city."
Nemu Kurotsuchi raised up a hand to ask a question and at Yamamoto's nod, Momo's dull voice spoke out. "You need us to go to the Soul Palace to take the place of the Captain's to keep refueling the boundary seperating our realm from the Outside correct?"
To which Yamamoto nodded while sending a sharp look at the homunclus that was made by the Captain Mayuri. "That is correct Nemu... Out of the thirteen squad's six of their captain's are directly using their spiritual energy to strength the wards surrounding our realms which you all will need to combine your strength to even halfway match."
Yamamoto took a breath and then continued calmly. "Meanwhile the other captain's, nobles, and other figures that don't belong to the Gotei Thirteen are alreadly in the human world purging the demonic influences."
There was a pause as Yamamoto let everyone digest this and then he gave a gruff exhale and said coldly. "The Hell Butterflies will meet you at the entrance of the Senkaimon that they will help create so you will land near the cities you are assigned... Do not waste time though, humanities population has alreadly been cut by thirty percent with all the afterlives being flooded with the influx of sudden souls entering them."
Rukia Kuchiki nodded and said firmly. "We will get rid of everything in our way Head Captain."
With that, from behind the Head Captain came the darkly colored Hell Butterflies that would carry the Shinigami's orders and all the lieutenants let the Hell Butterfly land in their hands before they quickly stabbed the air in front of themselves to open a Senkaimon that would open a path to the human world.
But there was one who was a bit slower in Nemu Kurotuschi but although she left last, she still left without issue with Yamamoto making a soft exhale of annoyance before he said gruffly. "Another tragedy... At least these day's serve to reminder everyone why we need to play nice with one another."
And with that Yamamoto's form collapsed in on itself with a dull soft thump rining out as a small doll landed on the ground displaying how Yamamoto's form was just an advanced Gigai that could carry a portion of his will and power.
Nemu Kurotsuchi's Senkaimon however didn't take her to the human world. Instead it and the Hell Butterfly assigned to her were modified with Nemu quickly coming out of the portal within a dark labratory that was filled with heretical technology.
And much it being made out of twisted flesh to carry the spiritual energy used by Shinigami technology.
"Hmm, so where have you been assigned Nemu." A bored voice spoke and Numu kneeled in front of her creator the Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi who was hunched over with his painted face looking into a microscope that was over a slide of what looked like purple flesh.
"I have been assigned to the middle and western parts of North America, in the country of the United States of America," Nemu announced calmly as she watched while her creator jabbed the piece of flesh with tiny needles that injected a toxinc serum into the flesh.
"I see... The United States, hmm. If you can find any anomalous objects, make sure to bring them to me without anyone finding out. But if you have a chance of being caught with them, either kill the witnesses or simply note its location, appearance, and any noticeable effects before retreating." Mayuri said calmly.
Nemu then added on calmly. "Am I to bring back samples or specimens of the demon lords and demons I am to purge Captain Mayuri?"
Mayuri gave a slight hum before he giggled fiendishly and said. "Yes, start to the west in California as it will be the most busy for you I imagine. Then when you reach the midwest, capture one of the Demon Lords alive. I believe they will make quite a good specimen for me to play with due to their immortality and spiritual nature that is such a cruel and averse reflection of our own."
Nemu silently nodded and knowing Mayuri was done with her, she opened up another Senkaimon and she properly headed to the human world this time.
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Sarah's set of triplet's were their own little group of hellion's when they realized I was a 'wizzerd' in their own words. Candace the biggest one had a very shy personality except when she had her sister's besides her.
They each had brown hair like Sarah did but Candace's was a more lighter brown. The next triplet named Alice had the darkest brown hair out of all of them, and was as quiet as a mouse with her only holding onto her sibling's hands as she looked at me in wonder as I made a small horse statue out of some stone.
And finally was Lucy... Lucy the terror who I didn't think was even related to them with how her hair was straight black due to having inherited it from her father apparently had some asian features despite being a triplet and was very loud an cheerful.
But they were just over three years old, and thus they weren't going to be an issue in terms of anything. With my farm floor acting as a good place for them to play around all the fruit tree's and such.
"So what are you going to do now?" Sarah asked curiously as we sat next to one another on a bench I made with my alchemy to watch the younger girls playing around in the dirt and having good fun.
Taking a breath I said honestly. "For a couple of days, I am going to practise my magic to make sure I can defend myself. Then I am going to go into the city again to hopefully pick up new's along with collecting supplies and magical reagent's."
There was a pause before Sarah said quietly. "It really isn't worth it. You are just one man even if you are an alchemist. Woudn't waiting it all out for a few weeks at least be for the best?"
I grimaced and then I spoke quietly. "To say nothing of the demons, I am worried about the zombies most of all. What if there is literally like only a few thousand people left alive back in Vegas who aren't infected? As remember the huge push to get vaccinated for that new super flu that was coming out of an asian country?"
Sarah went silent before she spoke in a whisper. "Those vaccines were made by Umbrella... Do you think they carried the zombie plague in them? Would Umbrella truly try to purge humanity like this?"
To which I took a deep breath and shook my head as I was well aware that Umbrella was headed by sociopath's who wanted to 'prune' the weakness out of humanity. But fucking god knows how Umbrella has changed with Harry Potter magical animals and plant's they could possibly use in their bioweapons.
Hell... I woudn't be suprised if they were trying to make hybrids in human/hollow/wizard/quincy/shinigami/fullbringers... Trying to make the ultimate being that could be a living god. And hell I woudn't even be suprised if Squad Zero actually helped in that.
As they would obviously want another true Soul King that could help act as the anchor for the barriers and wards that protected this series of worlds.
'Actually... How is Harry Potter and Ichigo Kurosaki doing?' I mused as I wondered if Voldemort was even a thing knowing how Soul Reaper's would hone in hard on some dumbass who carved their soul into multiple pieces.
And not to mention how things in Bleach would change with how the Soul King was completely dead dead. Aizen had no reason to betray Soul Society and if anything would probably want to protect the realms from the creeping madness of the eldritch bullshit that was creeping on our realm.
No... The real question was where in the hell was Juhabach the king of the Quincy's? My sponsor didn't actually mention him at all now that I think about it honestly.
But I just took a breath and said. "Either way, I need to see how bad the city is. Anyway, you are in charge of meals Sarah." I said a bit teasingly making her stick a tongue at me.
"Wow. Just dropping all the meals on me, do you feel no shame at all?" She demanding jokingly and I shook my head with zero fucking shame at all.
"Nope! No shame at all. Anyway, you have fun with the girls. I am going back to studying my magic." I said with Sarah giving me a good bye before I headed on to the elevator to get to the second floor so I could practise my telekinesis magic.
And the next three day's were as calm as knowing the world was ending outside. I worked to practise my alchemy and telekinesis magic in a more offensive and defensive bent. And then also concencrated a dagger so I could do some holy damage to any demon's I ran into.
"Amelia, I plan to be gone for a couple of day's so just remember the one rule of my bunker." I said firmly and the older teenager rolled her eyes.
"I know, I know. The seventh floor is off limits, don't worry I get it." She said drolly and I sighed.
"There is lethal traps in place there for a reason Amelia... I am not trying to harp at you for no reason. Though I expected Sarah to see me off honestly."
Amelia shrugged and replied. "The triplet's are being all fussy that their 'wizzerd' is going to go fight monsters and don't want you to go. They still have nightmare after seeing the alien's landing in the city."
"Well, anyway is there anything you want me to pick up while I am gone?" I asked curiously as I had also devoted several hours to barely manage to spatially expand my backpack slightly by a couple of meters of internal space.
Which... Wasn't that great when it's not like the backpack had any weight loss enchantments of any sort. As I was a novice at magic and learning these spells and they took time to become proficient with.
Amelia paused before she flushed slightly and said quietly. "I... I didn't pack enough underwear, specifically bra's as we were in a rush you know!"
My lips twitched and my eyes slid down to her very ample bosom with her crossing her arms over her chest.
I looked back up and with a wry smile I said. "Alright, what size and information am I looking for?"
She took a deep breath and with a slight flush she said quietly. "Me and mom share a size at F-Cup. And underwire or sports bra style please... Thank you Jake."
I nodded and said with a weak grin. "Oh this is nothing. I alreadly have had nightmares of you girls waking me up in the middle of the night for me to go on an emergency tampon/pad run."
Amelia gave me a long look before she snorted and said. "Dear god you are actually scared of that."
To which I shamelessly nodded at such a terrible nightmare haunting me.
But with that, I got into my jeep with Amelia heading back underground into the bunker. And then I drove out of the garage entrance of the bunker heading out to head back into Las Vegas.
The road's back to Las Vegas were just the same as before with myself needing to drive carefully around the destroyed car's and such. But I got to the city much quicker then before. But there was just one major issue.
"Ah hell... This is turbo fucked." I muttered as I saw a wall of metal above five meters tall and made out of destroyed stacked-up vehicles stretching to the distance.
And in the middle of the road was a large opening in that wall, and the reason it was fucked beyond belief was how the gate area and the close surrounding area had several monsters, humanoid forms, and other thing's impaled on what looked like rebar or something.
All of this, I saw through a pair of binocular's I had at the ready incase I did need to do a bit of longer-distance reconnaissance.
But that wasn't the worst of it. As standing at 'guard' at the edge of the wall were several large humanoid forms that were clearly demons.
Looking at the demon's through my binocular I saw that the one's in front of me were two different kinds or maybe races of demons maybe?
One of them was clearly a Wrath Demon as my sponsor mentioned. With massive bulging muscles, scales covering their supposedly vital points, and armed with large melee weapons.
The other group, I had no idea what exactly they were, as they came in all different sizes even if they looked more on the human side besides the fact that they were all morbidly obese.
'Greed or Sloth demons?' I mused before I chewed on my thoughts and shook my head as I knew that just driving up to see a bunch of demon's was fucking terrible idea.
A soft tapping noise rang out on driver side window next to me and I slowly looked besided myself with my eyes closing and opening as a ring of demon's circled around my jeep.
But they were more on the human side... No, they were very much on the human side despite them having a mix of purple, red, and normal skin tones between themselves but there was no hiding the Sin in which these demon's belonged to.
"Lust..." I muttered as the demon who knocked on my window gave a seductive smile before nodding slowly.
I slowly rolled down the window and I took in the demon beside my window more fully and saw that she was clad in a tight leather fit that clung to her outrageously voluptuous form.
"Hello little morsel, have you come to gamble everything you own in the city?" The demon whispered with her voice being a husky velvet to my ears.
To which my lips twitched and I raised an eyebow and asked. "The demon lord Barbatos, he has alreadly cleared out, and taken all of Vegas?"
The demon licked her lips and said seductively. "Oh, he most certainly has. Those noise seeking creatures are annoying but they are dealt with easily enough with magical power that can simply twist their soft innards around."
I nodded and I held my holy dagger at my waist out of the demon's sight and I asked calmly. "So... What happens with the mortals like myself?"
The demon tilted her head to the side and simpered. "Oh don't worry... A young fledgling mage like yourself? You are special indeed and will be well worth binding in contracts to make you a special little battery. To Pump Every Drop Of Your Mana Out."
My hand that was on my steering wheel tapped it several times as I pretended to be in deep thought before I asked with humor. "Oh, and who gets the honor of having me as a mana battery? Who do I get to play a battle of wits in making a magical contract?"
The lesser succubus's amused expression darkened as she was well aware that I was pointing out that I was a piece of treasure she wouldn't be able to sample.
"Pull into the city little mage... Who snatches you up will depend on who you gamble your freedom away to." She snapped with large bat wings snapping out behind her with her flying into the air with the dozen of other succubi and incubi also following her into the air while I took a breath as my window rolled back up.
But her words did tell me something... The Demon Lord seemingly didn't rule all of Las Vegas which honestly made sense. As it was literally known across the world as the city of sin, the modern Gomoragh. A single Earl woudn't be able to claim the gem of carnality and sin's of the modern world.
It was far more likely that in the day I had let the city calm down and practice my magic. Another couple of demon lords had moved in and were vying for control within the city and its inhabitants.
With a sort of peace between the multiple demon lords extending to the mortals and wizards due to how one demon lord being a complete dick bag would drive the mortals and wizards into the other 'two' or more demon lord camps.
Though this was just my possible thought process... As I highly doubted that a single demon lord would be so bored as to 'allow' their citizen's and mages any amount of freedom.
As I wasn't bound up or anything, sure I was told to head on into the city. But it's not like the succubi ripped my jeep open. Bound me in ropes of thorns laced with toxins to torture me and dragged me into slavery within the city.
No... It was clear that something more was at play here.
I took a deep breath, and I drove up to the front of the gate with a large demon of Wrath walking towards my door with him wielding a ten feet long huge halbeard that had glowing purple runes across the axe.
"You are new so listen well mortal mage. You will enter the city, and then you will head to one of the three running casino's. You will then gamble your soul, magic, and knowledge, and anything else of value you have with one of the Demon Lord's higher-ranked demons most likely."
The demon gave me a long cruel smile before dark smoke came out of his large nostrils as it snorted. "Your goal is to gain a medallion belonging to the demon lord you have chosen to chance your everything with... Should you be found at dawn without a medallion or chains showing your servitude to a demon... You will be processed for magical reagents." The demon stated at the end with a cruel grin of anticipation.
"Then give me a map to the three casino's demon of Wrath." I said bluntly with the cruel smile on the demon's face growing as it chuckled.
"Good... You are the first mage to use mundane travel to attempt to enter the city, so yes here you go." He said bringing a tanned map up in his off hand that wasn't hold his halberd.
Taking the map, I held in a scowl of disgust as it took me but a fucking moment to realize the map was clearly made out of human skin that had been magically tanned and treated.
"Heh, with that attitude Lord Barbatos and his attending peerage will welcome you. Or you will lose everything and you will be naught but a mana battery stuffed into a prison of flesh to feed and torture you for eternity haha." The demon cackled loud with it's large reptilian feet making clacking noises as he pulled back away from my jeep with the door leading into city opening up.
Driving into the city, I quickly saw how it had been 'cleaned up' in a rush. As people in large groups we being used to pull dead car's off the road where large demonic animals that were horrid obese things would eat the car's and vehicles whole.
'Tens of thousands of demon soldiers, and that doesn't count their enslaved demonic creatures and the demons that aren't soldiers or animals... I have no choice but to play according to their rules.' I thought frowning as I glanced at the map.
After driving into the city a good bit and getting some space from any of the random monstrous demons that clearly wanted to eat my magically rich body. I looked over the map and quickly noticed how on the map was a stamped message that had been burnt onto the skin...
"Did they fucking brand the message onto the person's skin before they tore the skin away?" I muttered with disgust before I shook my head and began reading the message that was a list of 'rules' and a surprisingly even primer on the three demon lords.
[Rules and Conditions for those of value.]
[1-You are free to wander the city besides avoiding the daily check-in.
2- You are free to make use of the mortals within the city at your own discretion so long as you do not taint or otherwise claim their souls.
3- Legion and Free Demon's may not directly harm you unless you sign your soul away to them.
4- You are not allowed to bind a legion demon within a contract of slavery and servitude.
5- Failure to display the medallion you received from the Demon Lord Patron you choose to identify with, will result in you being captured, tortured, murdered/processed for magical reagents, and violated in no particular order.]
Then there was the primer on the three demon lords who had seemingly decided on a sort of truce to slowly and more measuredly harvest the souls of the mortals, wizards, mages, and other beings within the city.
[Balbaroth Barbatos- Earl of Hell's Sixeth Circle of Heresy- Ruler of thirty legions of lesser demons, lord of a million damned souls bound to his will for eternity. Servitude with Balbaroth will consist of you being drained of mana every day, your soul sampled upon by favored succubi and incubi every year, and every century you will pay homage to Balbaroth Barbatos via a hidden treasure you collected or will birth an heir for one of his treasured beasts.]
[Bargain with Balbaroth Barbatos for treasures lost to man in all things to knowledge, artifacts, lesser souls, and demonic power.]
[Semiramis- Baron of Hell's Second Circle of Lust- Ruler of five legions of lesser demons. Lord of many depraved souls that fill history who fell to lust and temptation. Servitude with Semiramis will consist of you being drained of mana every three days. Your soul would be bound and owned solely by Semiramis. And should you desire you may trade the souls of others and magical reagents to Semiramis for boons and more freedom.]
[Helen- Baron of Hell's Second Circle of Lust- Ruler of six legions of lesser demons. Lord of a great many depraved souls that fill history who fell to lust and temptation especially those who were tempted from marriage in adultery. Servitude with Helen will consist of you being drained of mana every seven days. Your soul would be bound and owned solely by Helen as her own champion should you prove worthy. And should you desire you may trade the souls of others and perform great deeds to truly earn great favor with the lover of heroes.]
That was the biggest part of the description of the three demons lords but each one had more anecdotes like how Barbatos being a demon of Wrath prided himself on his martial valor and 'has never stabbed someone in the back in his millennia of demonhood.'
Which meant... That he stabbed everyone he stabbed directly in the front if the description wasn't a crock of shit.
But I had a decent feeling the two female demon lords were keeping the stronger male demon lord honest in this situation with both of the female demon lords nominally having to team up as they were clearly weaker by a great deal compared to the Earl demon.
Either way, Semiramis was also noted as being a true-born royal, and for those with cunning and guile. Even should they fall into her enslavement they can find themselves with their own power over others as she didn't interfere with her court of demons and mages from playing against each other.
However... Helen was a bit of a different case. The once 'Queen' of Troy had a fascination for heroes and was noted for acting as a muse and supporter of said heroes and lavishing them with demonic power, gifts, artifacts, and everything else the hero could ask for. But literally in bold the descriptor said.
[Failure as one of her hero's will result in you having your soul chained to her full will. You will be used as breeding stock to hopefully birth a better hero. And once she get's bored of you, she will render you down for magical reagents and then feed the remains to her legion of Hellhounds and Cerberus.]
"Wow... And what a shitty list this is." I muttered with a groan as I didn't want to be enslaved by any of these three fuckers. There was no good option here at all obviously!
"Why couldn't one of them be like a big titty Rias Gremory... Wait is Highschool DXD like Twilight to actual devils and Demons like it is to vampires?" I wondered with a hysteric giggle escaping me at the thought.
But regardless it was interesting to note how at least two of the demons were sinners who had been made into demons with their eternal suffering hell after their 'lustful' lives... For Semiramis, I honestly wasn't too sure of the actual lore on her.
However Helen? Yeah, the fact that she got sent to hell to be eternally tormented for having the misfortune of being Aphrodite's plaything. That didn't quite sit well with me honestly.
But any such pity for the woman of 'Troy' was easily smoke in the wind at seeing the statements about people who don't live up to her desires of a hero being fed to her legions of demonic hounds and multiple Cerberus apparently.
"Hmm, and I rather deal with a bunch of muscle-headed asshole demons even if the game may be rigged from the start. After all... Dealing with Khorne is much easier than trying to deal with Tzeentch." I muttered as I mused between the Barbatos Demon of Wrath and Semiramis.
So with my target set, and knowing I needed to gather some stuff no matter what anyway. I continued driving through Las Vegas heading over to the unrepaired and uncleaned up area that was the more industrial side of the city.
Which with the literal apocalypse going on currently. Was obviously going to be a ghost town seeing as no one was going to be going to work knowing that getting into sight of their new demonic overlords was a fucking terrible idea.
I needed things of value to fill my treasury to increase the depth and purity of my magical power. So with the major casinos and other places being taken over by demons and knowing my luck other horror's.
I came over here to the industrial side of the city to get to where I could gather up some gold and silver in an odd way I doubt most people consider. Using my alchemy to break open a locked door, I ignored the alarm as I strolled into the high-end imported furniture and home decoration warehouse.
Because I knew all too well that any decent-sized jewelry store was likely going to be looted already, not to mention I had a strong feeling that just filling my treasury with a bunch of cookie-cutter wedding rings and such wouldn't do it any favors.
No, I needed some real treasures and this was a good place to get some stuff that was considered valuable, especially in terms of antiques and such.
"Hmm, petrified wood. That can be used in magic as well." I muttered as I wolf-whistled at the fifteen thousand dollar table with the surface being a polished petrified wood from a huge California Red Oak.
So I moved what I could in that table and a bunch of knick-knacks that had value in crystals and some 'precious' stones like cat's eyes and off emeralds which weren't good enough to be used in making actual jewelry into my jeep and backpack if it could fit.
"Hmm... Now this is intresting." I mused as I found a large old fashion globe and as I inspected it out of intrest as it looked like it was made in the eighteen hundreds or something.
I noticed something very quickly as my interal mana synched with the globe and the old land marks faded away and were replaced with new ones. New country borders, and espeically new cities.
'This is a city for magical or something!' I thought with wonder as I saw in upper Scotland was a tiny three dimensional castle that was obviously supposed to be Hogwarts. So I rolled the globe around and I obviously began inspecting North America only to realize that all the magicals were seemingly on the East Coast.
Or they were small enclaves spread out across America closer to the coast lines of the USA. And notably, there weren't any wizard enclaves at all within Nevada according ot this globe.
Comments
Ruben Villaescuza
for the betting/wager, would it be a Shadow realm backed childrens card game? or whoever can recite the full bible first? i presonally would trick the demon into accidnently summoning DoomSlayer.
Hmm is it time
Thanks for the chapter.
Bio_Bill
So when Jake goes to bet, is he going to issue a swimming challenge to cross the river and get into his home?
Goddess of Victory
TFTC
ZeroLink21
Man Jake is gonna run into the man made shinigami and is stuck it demon land Vegas tftc
Azazyel
There are... Alot of Soul Reapers, it's just only the lieutenants and captains ever get any real screen time.
Azazyel
Fair. But I didn't give the story enough thought other thank listing off some lieutenants until afterwards
Rockinalice
Well Jake can always pull a Full metal Alchemist an make a Discount Stone from the Souls of evil people an beings. Not the best since it's not Equal to the spark of universal Life but close enough to cover most needs he will have for a long while
Guilherme Bezerra
World building is always welcome. Though I am surprised there are no demon minders around. Or are they that confident ? Anyways i think there are some major issues here with the current descript of Soul Society. If they are supposed to handle all the afterlife needs of the planet their size is simply too small. Second I can't really see the Bleach powerscale working here for a worldwide invasion.
Loghead101
Could have just been transparent about it bud. Or include both of them. Hell Nemu wasnโt even 2nd place it was Rukia.
Azazyel
Damned right I did! I have zero shame! ๐๐๐
Loghead101
Azy, did you circumvent the poll to use Nemu even though Rangiku won?
