I'm a Daemon, so what? (Tensura/Multicross)

Story: I'm a Daemon, so what?

Disclaimer: I do not own the original setting.

Chapter 58: Magicule Circulation

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- Felix -

"How is the rebuilding of the Beast Kingdom Eurazania going?"

"It is going well, Master. Everything is being built to your and Carrion's specifications." Raiden responded.

"It's being rebuilt by some of the Lycanthropes who wanted to learn how to build as well as a portion of our own workers, right?"

"That is correct. Carrion and Albis are supervising the project. The Lycanthropes likely hoped that by assisting with the rebuilding of Carrion's Kingdom, they may be noticed by either Albis or Carrion."

I nodded. The Beast Kingdom Eurazania practiced the standard Beastman macho bullshit.

They technically had slaves, but it was a bit different from how Human Kingdoms had slaves.

In the Beast Kingdom Eurazania, basically whoever was stronger could order those weaker than them around. So it wasn't really slavery, more like the weak were forced to do what the strong told them.

I didn't like this culture all that much, but I wasn't willing to change their entire way of life, nor did I care. They had been living like that for centuries, if not thousands of years, and were accepting of that way of life. It was literally coded into them to worship and obey the strong. They were designed to be that way. 

Still, I ordered Carrion to begin having free training sessions that anyone could join. During those training sessions, there would be no bullying of the weak, and one could not stop someone from attending the training sessions.

Hopefully, this gives the weak a chance to rise up and become one of the strong.

That was the most I was willing to do to help those less fortunate. The Beast Kingdom Eurazania had its own culture, and it has been working fine until now.

Even Carrion had to suffer under the current system before he inherited the mantle of Beast King from his father.

I never claimed to be an enforcer of justice and freedom, after all. This world sucked, but I felt no desire to change it. Call me a cruel monarch but I had made my choice.

Things will turn out alright with the Beast Kingdom Eurazania, probably.

I leaned back on my throne and lost myself to my thoughts. My Thought Acceleration was at a factor of 10 million. That makes it so a single second feels like 2,778 hours, or about 116 days.

Something even I knew was absurd, but it gave me more than enough time to just close my eyes and relax, so there was no way I was going to complain.

After some time, I called Raiden. "Could you call Ingvild, Raiden?"

"Very well, Master." Responded Raiden.

I saw a blitz of Lightning run past me as I lounged back on my throne.

I wanted to get the conversation I wanted to have with Ingvild out of the way.

The universe of DxD, or rather, what should be its universe, doesn't actually exist yet. The nature of the multiverse is that it's always growing, always dying. Universes are constantly being born and extinguished. Veldanava might have kickstarted everything at the beginning, but creation and destruction continue, even in his absence.

According to Odin, the universe of DxD hasn't even been born yet. Theoretically, using the space-time coordinates embedded in Ingvild's soul, it should still be possible to travel there, but we'd be journeying into the future of the multiverse, not the present that I live in.

Even if time can function differently from world to world, we are still in one time period of this multiverse. Traveling to DxD would put me into the far future time period of this multiverse.

Time is confusing like that.

Messing with Time does make me wary. There are many risks; for one, I do not know what rules Veldanava set. I know for a fact he did set rules on reality. For all I know, traveling to the future may be one of them.

I was immortal. I had a practically infinite lifespan due to my Divine Nature as well as being a Daemon. The only way I can die is if I am killed, which will get harder and harder to do as time goes on.

Even if I do die, after a couple of centuries, I'll be reborn in the Daemon Realm, though I'd rather that it doesn't happen.

I don't know if I will keep the same personality or if I will lose all of my Skills, so I might as well consider that as death.

A new Felix may be born, but he might not be the current me. I'd rather I just never die at all. I'll eventually learn to handle the boredom that comes with true immortality.

I doubt I'll be all that bored, though. I have many playgrou– cough worlds to mess around in.

Ingvild is also immortal with an almost infinite lifespan, though she is easier to kill than I am. 

Any true Spiritual Beings are, at the very least, nigh-ageless; the only way to kill them is to destroy their Core. Kagali was able to wander around for centuries with just her Astral Body, and that was just due to her nature as a Deathman.

I don't see either Ingvild or me dying any time soon. In that case, would it not be better to wait until DxD is naturally born and save Ingvild's mother from her early demise while we're at it as well?

While that may not have happened in the universe Ingvild came from, in the so-called canon of that universe, Ingvild's mother died while Ingvild was in her eternal sleep. Ingvild awoke due to basically a miracle and was left stranded in a time she knew nothing about.

To the point that she latched onto Issei Hyoudou, of all people. 

If we go to DxD at some point after her death, I do not think I will be capable of reviving her, while DxD does have its own natural cycle of Souls. If I recall correctly, the Souls of Devils are just erased at the moment of their death. It would be impossible to revive her if her Soul just straight up does not exist anymore.

Since I am not yet capable of straight-up time travel, I won't be able to travel to the past of DxD, pluck her mother's Soul, and bring it to the present. Such a thing is beyond me for now.

All Ouroboros allows me to do is travel to the precise Space-Time Coordinates of the various Dimensions out there.

Odin can also manually scour the multiverse for various Dimensions, which is how I can gain access to the magma dimension, the ice dimension, and all of those other various dimensions. However, Odin can only manually locate dimensions that currently exist, so she wouldn't find the DxD Ingvild was from like that.

It was a very caveman-like way of finding other Dimensions, but it worked. I have found a few dimensions I want to visit already.

Not to mention, there was another reason I was hesitant to travel to the "future" of this multiverse.

I had no idea if the Voice of the World would punish something like that. If Veldanava set a rule against time traveling to the future, I don't doubt that the Voice of the World would enforce that rule.

A knock on the door broke me from my thoughts.

"Come in, Ingvild." I called out.

The door opened, and in came Ingvild. I was currently sitting in my study behind my desk.

I gestured to the seat on the other side of my desk. "Take a seat."

I noticed that Ingvild seemed nervous as she sat down. "No need to worry. You aren't in trouble or anything. I just wanted to talk about returning to your original world."

I noticed a light of hope enter Ingvild's eyes; it pained me somewhat to pour cold water over the poor girl. "So there are some issues. Basically, you were summoned from the far future. Your universe has not been born yet." Best to rip the bandaid off immediately.

Ingvild blinked. "Huh? I was summoned from the future?"

I nodded. "That is correct. Theoretically, I can time travel to the future, to your world in particular, however, that does come with some risks."

The only reason I can't time travel is that the coordinates are not simple. It's not as simple as subtracting a one from the coordinates to go one year or one day back. No, the coordinates would be completely different. It would be impossible to come up with those coordinates without incredibly detailed analysis.

The only reason I was able to appear a bit in the future of the world I was summoned from was due to time moving a bit differently in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen than it did here in the Cardinal World. I'm sure the same is true for many other worlds out there.

I just chalked it up to time bullshit and left it at that. Time was way too confusing for me to attempt to truly understand now.

"The main risk is that the Voice of the World may not like such a thing as traveling to the future."

Ingvild's eyes widened upon hearing me. She knew what the Voice of the World was.

She nervously bit her lips. "I-I don't want to put you or anyone else at risk."

I smiled at Ingvild's pure-hearted wish. "There is another benefit to waiting until I have a better understanding of everything. If my suspicions are right, the moment we travel to, your mother will already have passed on."

Ingvild froze for a moment. I gave her a moment to process everything before continuing. 

"In that scenario, from what I know about the Devils of that world, your mother's soul will basically be gone. I will not be able to revive her. However, both of us are ageless beings; we can afford to wait until the universe is born and then intervene at the perfect moment so that you can meet and prevent the death of your mother. You can even meet your father again and bring him over here if you want." 

Ingvild nodded, her eyes lighting up with hope again.

"Now, I'm not saying I am 100% right. I could be wrong."

Ingvild bit her lip. "I-I think I want to wait. I do not want to risk the chance of losing my old family even if I made a new one." Ingvild said as she looked away from me.

How cute.

"Haha, I think everyone will be happy to hear that Ingvild." I sighed. "I'm sorry for not being able to keep my promise to you."

I did genuinely feel bad for that. I did not like breaking my word. However, my word was not as important to me as my safety and the safety of those close to me. I simply was not willing to risk crossing the Voice of the World, even if the chances were low.

Ingvild hurriedly waved her hands. "You didn't break anything! You are still going to be taking me to my home world, right?"

I nodded.

Ingvild smiled. "Then you didn't break your promise! It's just going to be a bit delayed."

Ah, an Angel. Ingvild is an Angel, umu.

"It's not like I mind waiting. I've already been without my mother for a long time. I'm okay waiting a little bit longer. I can have even more stories to tell her now!" Ingvild said with a happy smile.

I smiled hearing her. Now the plan was to wait for Odin to decipher the coordinates for the past of Ingvild's world, or for her universe to naturally be born, yoink her parent's souls and bring them to the future of DxD when I go visit that boob-infested world.

"You don't have anyone else you want to see and perhaps bring over?"

Ingvild shook her head. "No. I didn't have many friends."

That's depressing. But not that weird, Ingvild did not come from the modern era, the world was different back then.

Women didn't really have any rights, not to mention that Ingvild's mother likely kept her fairly hidden, a Half-Devil descendant of Leviathan would attract a lot of unwanted attention after all.

"I see. Well, thanks for understanding, Ingvild. If you're not busy, why don't we play some music together? I'm not the best, but I used to play the piano."

Hearing me, a giddy smile appeared on Ingvild's face. "Yes!"

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"Sasageyo! Sasageyo! Shinzou wo sasageyo! Subete no gisei wa ima kono toki no tame ni." 

I continued to lightly sing one of the best anime openings of all time as I made my way to Lalatina's room. 

It's about time I ask what reward she wants for her hard work, though I have a feeling I know what she is going to ask for. 

Ingvild and I had messed around with quite a few anime openings I knew of, with Odin I could easily recreate the sheet music, it was even possible to become an absolute master at any instrument with Odin, though I didn't do that.

Playing the piano was something I learned through my own hard work. I didn't want to taint that by just cheating my way to the top, at least when it came to that. Combat power was different. I'd cheat when it came to power in an instant with zero hesitation, but playing the piano was just a fun hobby.

It didn't take me long to reach Lalatina's room. By now, she should be done with all her duties for the day. Lalatina herself didn't do all that much work; she just told her subordinates what to do, and they followed her orders.

Lalatina's job, in general, was to keep me informed about everything going on in my territory, the Western Nations, and the other Demon Lord's territories.

She has had time to develop her agents and has them spread all over, developing a solid information network.

Guess being eons old has to count for something. Lalatina is quite capable and very competent.

I'm not sure how Rain is just so… pathetic at her job. Whenever I think about her, I feel bad for Guy.

Truly, I have all the luck. I don't know what I would have done if I summoned Rain instead of either Arcueid, Megumin, or Lalatina.

I think I'd cry.

I knocked on Lalatina's door. "Master?! Come in~!"

From Lalatina's suggestive tone of voice, I already knew what was going to happen, and I was sure as hell that I wasn't going to complain.

I opened the door and spotted Lalatina laying on her bed in a suggestive pose. She was clothed in just her lingerie as well as the collar I had gifted her and was staring at me with a seductive smirk. 

I'm guessing the moment she sensed me approaching, she instantly began making preparations, Magic was useful like that.

I rolled my eyes. "I just wanted to ask what you wanted as a reward for performing your duties so well." I chuckled.

At first, I wasn't actually certain if Lalatina would be capable of doing everything I asked of her, but my first impression of her was that she was a hopeless degenerate.

But she can put her degeneracy aside and fulfill my orders, so I had no complaints.

"But I guess I don't need to ask to know what you want." This was more of a reward for me though, so I'd still have to get Lalatina something on the side.

"Yes, Master~!"

I snapped my fingers, placing a barrier around the room, and approached Lalatina.

Lalatina sat up from her position and gave me a seductive smile. "What did you wish for me to start with, Master~!" Purred Lalatina.

I sat on her bed, snapped my fingers, causing my bottoms to disappear and spread my legs. "Start with the usual."

"Hehe, of course~!"

Lalatina quickly stripped herself of her bra, sending it across the room. Her twin peaks were capped with two pink nipples that looked to already be hard. 

As I was observing her tits, Lalatina got between my legs, her breasts bouncing slightly as she did so. She quickly began stroking my cock, as well as peppering it with light kisses.

There was a healthy red blush decorating Lalatina's face as she sniffed and licked my cock from bottom to top before enveloping the tip in her soft pillowy lips. 

Lalatina whimpered slightly as she squeezed her thighs together, rubbing them slightly, something that caused me to smirk.

I reached out, my hand finding its place on her head as I pushed Lalatina further down my cock, and forced her to stay there, much to her verbal enjoyment.

"Keuuuk!" 

Lalatina's masochistic desires made themselves very well known when having sexy times.

Lalatina's piercing half lidded yellow eyes stared up into my own. "Hnng… Geuk…!"

I continued to enjoy Lalatina's service for some time before I eventually allowed Lalatina's head to rise back up. She pulled far enough back that only her lips were kissing the tip of my dick, before she gave the tip a quick lick and shifted slightly to give me a tit job, resulting in just the tip of my shaft peeking out.

I groaned out as Lalatina's soft tit-flesh enveloped my shaft. I may enjoy asses, but I'll always be a boob guy.

"Good job. I didn't even need to tell you what to do. It looks like you can learn."

"Mmm~! Thank you for the compliment, Master~!" Moaned out Lalatina before she enveloped the tip of my cock with her lips, seemingly eager to get back to her treat.

"Such a good girl." I groaned out. My comment seemed to somehow make Lalatina more eager, something I didn't think was possible.

I continued to praise and talk down to Lalatina as I enjoyed Lalatina's affectionate and self-satisfying blowjob.

After all, Lalatina is my little masochistic slut. Of course, she enjoyed serving me in this way. 

Sometimes, I seriously wonder if I messed something up in Lalatina when I used that attack on her during our first meeting.

It was an attack that attacked Lalatina on a Soul deep level, an attack amplified by Odin, which amplified it to the Ultimate level. Perhaps that broke something in her, or perhaps Lalatina was always a sadomasochist, just waiting for someone to bring out her submissive side.

I'm sure not many could do that back in the Daemon Realm.

I was distracted from my thoughts as I felt Lalatina suction on the tip of my cock, seemingly sensing my imminent release.

Seeing no reason to hold myself back, I allowed myself to naturally release all of my semen straight down Lalatina's throat.

"Mmah~!"

Lalatina let out an orgasmic moan as her eyes rolled up, her panties now soaked thoroughly.

Lalatina seemed to be completely out of it. She was lightly licking the tip of my cock, cleaning off the remains of my orgasm.

"Of course, my little slut would orgasm from drinking down my cum." I purred as I patted the side of Lalatina's cheek.

My action and comment seemed to bring Lalatina back to awareness as she moaned out an affirmative of sorts.

No matter how I talked down to her or what I said, I knew the degradation excited her. 

"D-Did I do well, Masther~?" Lalatina slurred out.

I gave her a cheeky smile and a thumbs-up. "Yup! I didn't even have to tell you to swallow!"

"Hehe." Lalatina got lost in her own delirious world. 

"Now, why don't we move onto the next part." I voiced out.

That seemed to spark Lalatina's attention.

She began panting wildly and nodded. "Yes, please~!"

She quickly got up and laid down on the bed. She ripped her panties off, giving me a full view of her gushing mound. Her pussy opened slightly in arousal as some of her juices dripped down her meaty thighs. 

She spread her legs fully, something I took advantage of as I quickly positioned cock above her mound and gripped her hips.

Without warning, I bottomed out completely inside Lalatina, much to her vocal enjoyment.

"Yesssss~! Mwore please~!" Begged Lalatina.

I felt Lalatina's legs lock behind me, pulling me closer and deeper inside of her. 

I thrust into her with wild abandon, making sure to target the sweet spots that were present in the Physical Body of hers. It was made to mimic a standard Material Body, after all.

One of my hands trailed up and gently squeezed her magnificent tits. They weren't the largest I'd seen, but they were in no way small either. They were large enough that I couldn't squeeze her entire breast. Some of the titflesh got away from me.

"Yesh yesh yeshhh~!" Lalatina squealed out as I continued my assault on her pussy.

I felt her tighten up as some more of her juices wet my thighs.

I gave one of her breasts a slap. "Who said you could cum without my permission?" I demanded.

"I'm sowwy~!" 

I ignored her apologies and pinched one of her nipples tightly, normally that would cause pain in a woman, but Lalatina was Lalatina. She even purposely lowered her Pain Nullification during these moments.

"What a degenerate slut, lowering one of your defenses to get yourself off." 

"I'm showwy! It fwees s-so good~!"

"Heh, I didn't ask you to change. I like you how you are now. My personal masochistic pet." I groaned out.

"Y-Yesh~! Pwease adore me more Mashter~!"

The silky inner walls of her womanhood clung to my cock tightly, as if unwilling to let me leave the depths of her folds.

"Cumming again~!" Before Lalatina could orgasm, I locked her orgasm causing her to whine out.

"You cum when I say you cum."

My domination over her only seemed to arouse her further. Even with her orgasm sealed off at the last moment, she didn't ask for any release. Content to let me do what I want with her.

Her slightly flush breasts shook with my thrusts, a very appetizing sight.

"Y-Yes Master." Lalatina panted out.

I leaned down as I continued thrusting into her and took one of her pretty pink nipples into my mouth. My tongue ran along her areola before I lightly bit on the nub.

I felt Lalatina's hands brush through my hair and pull me deeper into her tit-flesh.

They were so soft that I could probably fall asleep on them.

I eventually pulled back, even with Lalatina's incoherent speech.

I pulled my cock out of her twat, and just rubbed it against her pussy lips until Lalatina looked to me with teary eyes.

"Nnngh! C-Can I cum now Master?" Lalatina begged.

"Fine fine, I am a merciful Master, but first let's change positions."

I grabbed Lalatina's legs and laid them flush against her breasts, her knees were now beside her head in the classic position of a mating press.

"O-Oh! This position!" It didn't surprise me that Lalatina knew what position this was.

I thrusted into Lalatina without warning as I released my lock on her orgasms causing her to tighten up to the point where any normal penis would immediately be crushed.

"Yeshhhh~! Thank you~!" Lalatina squealed.

- Lalatina -

She squealed into her Master's lips as he held her in the mating press position.

She felt like she was melting. Her Master was using some Magic to cause her pleasure in her very Soul, for those of weak will would have already gone insane from the pleasure.

Her Master pulled back from her lips, causing her to whine out. "Such a good girl." He murmured next to her lips.

She could feel herself tighten up on her Master's shaft. She liked being called a good girl, her Master's good girl.

She wished she could stay in this moment forever, but she knew that would be too selfish. She would prioritize her Master's desires over her own.

She was his loyal bed slave, after all.

- Felix -

I thrusted into Lalatina with wild abandon.

"Inshide~!" Lalatina begged.

I grunted as I bottomed out inside of Lalatina's drenched quim completely, and let loose inside of her.

"Yeshhhh~!" Squealed Lalatina.

Once my orgasm was finished, I pulled out, causing Lalatina to whine.

"We aren't done yet." I grunted as I flipped Lalatina around into doggy style.

Truly, I was living the life.

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I sighed as I finally laid in my bed. The last few days have been days of sex and gifting. I had gone to all my subordinates and asked what they wanted as a reward for all their hard work.

I gave some gifts, had some sex, and made some promises, but it was still mentally draining.

Maybe to relax I should visit Guy sometime? I'm not sure what will come of it, but I did promise Rain that I'd drop by sometime in the near future.

It's not like hanging out with Guy was boring. He had plenty of stories to tell, and he was fun to fight.

Yeah, I'll have to do that sometime.

For now, I'll just be lazy.

'Notice. It is now possible to modify Magicule Breeder Reactor to become completely self-sufficient.'

'Huh?'

Why do I feel like Odin is exasperated with me?

'It is Master's imagination. Magicule Breeder Reactor works by pulling in magicules from the surrounding atmosphere, and then colliding them together with the magicules already present in Master's body, resulting in the creation of more magicules to refill Master's Magicule Capacity.'

'I am aware of how Magicule Breeder Reactor works, but thanks for the refresher. So what modification did you come up with?'

'Rather than using the magicules from the surrounding atmosphere, thanks to the data Odin has analyzed, Odin can modify Magicule Breeder Reactor with Master's permission to use Master's own personal Magicule Capacity and collide them all together to create more magicules.'

'That basically completely gets rid of the need to be in a world with Magicules, then, huh?'

'Correct.'

That would solve some issues down the line, if I go to a world without magicules, or another world with another form of energy. While Odin might be able to do what she did with Cursed Energy and find a way to make use of it, there might be an energy that is so vastly different from magicules that it just doesn't work.

Being completely self-sufficient on that front would be great.

'Do it Odin.'

'Affirmative.'

I could feel my Skill being reworked. I just relaxed and let Odin do her thing.

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'It is done.'

Nice! I can feel the change already. Man, Odin really is a cheat.

'Good work, Odin. I didn't even know you were working on something like that.'

'It is Odin's duty. Odin will always work to strengthen Master and in Master's best interests. Thanks to Thought Acceleration, it was possible to analyze Magicule Breeder Reactor in detail and come up with a solution to its one downside.'

'I see. No new information on Stardust, though?'

'Negative. Stardust works on multiple unknown Laws. More data is needed for a thorough understanding of Stardust.'

Well, that's about what I expected. Stardust is no joke. 

I was able to manipulate it in a very limited capacity, like imbuing it into a weapon when creating them with Material Creation, which would instantly elevate it to God Grade in most cases.

I could also imbue little amounts of it into a Spell that would magnify its power multiple times over, a simple Nuclear Cannon would likely become a continent-destroying beam. Not to mention that attacks empowered by Stardust cannot be blocked, only redirected or dodged.

Who knows what I could do with it once Odin truly understood the essence of Stardust? Odin had theorized that Stardust may be the key to creating souls, at the very least.

Milim really lucked out with her heritage, gaining access to Stardust likely on birth. She was a true nepo baby, or well, maybe the nepo baby, considering her father was God with a capital G.

At least now I can confidently say I truly have infinite magicules, of course this doesn't make me all powerful, I am still limited by my energy output. 

'Odin has also developed a new method to almost completely conserve magicules for the Master in case the Master did not wish for Odin to modify Magicule Breeder Reactor. It is suggested to pass the technique onto the Master's subordinates.'

'A new technique, huh? Well, tell me about it.'

'Through analysis sped up by Thought Acceleration, Odin has developed a method to steadily circulate the magicules in one's body. Due to this, the amount of magicules required from the atmosphere is drastically lowered and can be combated by one's own natural magicule generation.'

'What about when someone wants to use some sort of Magic? That would still use magicules, no?'

'Correct, but instead of releasing the energy to the outside world, the user can simply circulate the Magicules in their body, constantly maintaining control of the Magicules around them, and can quickly regain a portion of the Magicules expelled.'

'So when someone uses some Spell, some of their magicules are expelled out of their body. Thanks to this, a good portion of the magicules are wasted. Your method is to reabsorb those wasted magicules into the body and make use of them again?'

'Correct.'

'Man, Odin, you are seriously a genius. I wouldn't have thought of something like that. Thanks for working on all these things in the background for me. You're the best partner.'

'!!!!'

Obviously, this isn't an infinite magicule generator cheat like Magicule Breeder Reactor, but through this method, you can conserve a large number of your magicules.

You are really just recycling the energy you can, allowing you to use it later.

I'll have to share this method with all my direct subordinates soon.

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I called all my direct subordinates to my office to share the magicule circulation technique with them.

It would be foolish to keep such a thing secret. In the worst case, it would allow my subordinates to stall for time for a longer duration if necessary.

Who knew you could basically recycle magicules?

"I have arrived, My Lord." Sukuna called out from the other side of the door.

"Come in, and leave the door open on the way in." I responded.

Sukuna came in and took his position beside me. "Did you have fun sparring with Zegion?"

Sukuna has been going to The Dungeon to fight pretty much every day when he can. He doesn't have all that many duties to do, so he is left with a lot of free time.

"It has been going well, My Lord. Zegion has been progressing fairly quickly and, while having a lower EP than me, is able to give me a challenge due to his Exoskeleton."

I nodded. "Yeah, that's what I thought would happen. Daemons like us are pretty naturally countered by that Exoskeleton of his since we rely on Magic so heavily."

Sukuna nodded. "Indeed, it is something I am beginning to find countermeasures for. Currently, our fights end due to exhaustion on Zegion's part."

"I see. Well, keep working hard. I can sense that your EP has grown since you first started this rivalry of yours with Zegion."

Sukuna bowed. "As you wish, My Lord."

Sukuna has been going to The Dungeon so often that it has gotten to a point where I have set up a Teleportation Circle that will teleport him straight to a Teleportation Circle in Tempest.

When I showed it to Sasha, it is safe to say her mind broke, not in the hentai kind of way, but she has been going crazy studying it and working on the combat Golem I gave her the designs for.

Apparently Teleportation Circles as powerful as the one I made aren't standard in the Western Nations.

The more I learn about the Western Nations, the more I understand just how limited the average Human Kingdom is. 

Apparently, Razen, the Court Mage of the Kingdom of Falmuth, now Farmenas, is a pretty big deal in the West. And while he was pretty strong due to being a Demonoid with his own Magicule Capacity, and numerous Unique Skills, he could at most defeat an Incomplete Saint. He just didn't have the energy for more.

For Veldanava's favorite race, they are seriously limited by their natural bodies. They had short lifespans, a minuscule amount of magicules that flowed through their blood, a low aptitude for acquiring Skills due to their low amount of magicules, and most didn't have the talent to even become an Enlightened.

But perhaps that is why Veldanava liked them so much? Maybe Veldanava got a small taste of the 'indomitable human spirit' and got hooked. Humans had the tenacity to overcome their limits, just like in a shonen anime. Did Veldanava like shonen anime?

I was distracted from my thoughts by Arcueid, Megumin, and Lalatina walking in. They all greeted me with a bow. 

I greeted them with a nod. "Ladies."

It didn't take long for all my direct subordinates to gather in the room. Even Ingvild was here.

I pet Kurumi, who was settled on my lap as I spoke up. "Now, I won't take long. I just wanted to share a technique I want you all to begin utilizing. It will require a lot of practice to get down and use efficiently, but I think it can increase all of your overall combat prowess significantly."

"Ara, a technique even you find useful, My Lord? I am quite eager to learn about it now." Arcueid commented

I nodded. "Yeah, it's pretty impressive, downright broken. I won't be putting this in the rewards center, that's for sure. The military has more than enough Magic and Arts to choose from as is."

Megumin nodded. "I've been beating a lot of them up, and they have been growing stronger! Some of them have even exchanged some points for C and B Ranked Arts!" Megumin said.

I nodded. "That's good. No matter how powerful I am, there may be times when I am not here to protect this territory. A powerful military is needed for those kinds of situations. Not to mention that Human Kingdoms classify national strength based on the amount of people in the military."

"Indeed! As I have learned, humans are incredibly foolish creatures. Classifying strength based on their own incomplete world view." Lalatina commented.

It was easy to forget sometimes that Lalatina has wandered the Western Nations for quite a long time. She is aware of the intricacies of the Western Nations and was pretty well informed about how Humans worked.

"Fufu, of course, those Kingdoms aren't capable of understanding your greatness, Felix-sama!" Saeko said while puffing her chest out.

I rolled my eyes. "No need to glaze me any more than you already do, Saeko. It's going to get to my head."

"Glaze you?" Saeko asked curiously.

I shook my head. "Ignore it. It's a term from my old world."

Saeko nodded. However, she would probably ask me about what the term meant another time.

"Alright, let's not get too distracted. Now watch me." I lowered all my abilities, which stopped individuals from successfully analyzing me and made it blatantly clear what I was doing with the energy in my body. 

Normally, I wouldn't be capable of something like this, not so soon after learning it, but thanks to Odin, it wasn't difficult at all.

"Truly extraordinary." Sukuna commented as he gazed at me with awe.

"Indeed, as expected of you, My Lord, to create such a revolutionary technique." Arcueid added.

Eh, I didn't really create it. Odin did, but I will take the credit nonetheless!

"Did you all understand what I did?"

Most of those present in this room had some sort of analysis ability, or had a large amount of experience to make up for the lack of an analysis ability.

Saeko tilted her head. "Are you not just circulating your magicules inside of your body, maintaining constant control over your own internal magicules?"

Saeko may not look like it, but she did have some crazy battle instinct, also thanks to her experience with Cook she was able to notice some things most normally would ignore.

When one bends the Laws of the world over, they tend to become a bit more well-informed about how the world functions.

I nodded. "That's right, Saeko. Thanks to constantly circulating your own magicules, you maintain control of them. When you use a Spell, you increase the intensity of the magicules around you as a side effect, you then absorb those magicules and include them into the constant circulation of magicules you are doing in your own body."

"Heh! So you're basically shooting an arrow and picking it up?" Megumin asked.

"I mean, yeah, that's a simple way to look at it, but it works." Leave it to Megumin to simplify something like that.

"I've got the most magicules out of everyone here except you, My Lord! I don't think I need to worry about my energy, but if you think I should learn this, then I'll do it!" Megumin said with a grin.

I nodded. "Good, you may have a significant amount of energy, but there are those out there with more."

"Yeah yeah, I got it." Megumin sighed.

I noticed that Arcueid was glaring at Megumin for her seemingly disrespectful attitude. I didn't bother saying anything, Arcueid, Megumin, and Lalatina would always have a rivalry.

"Alright, if you guys have any more questions, feel free to ask me, but for now, you are dismissed."

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"Boss!" 

I turned to the voice and nodded. "Hello, Sasha."

Sasha ran up to me with an eager look in her eyes. "I finished that Golem you made a sketch of! You wanna come see it?! Maybe you can give me some advice?! You're super good at Magic after all, right?!"

Ah, Sasha was in one of her mad scientist moods where she acted pretty unhinged.

"Uhm, yeah, sure, I'm not doing anything right now. I'm quite curious about this Golem of yours."

According to Milim, Clayman's primary form of combat was through Golems he puppeted himself. Milim said Clayman refused to fight directly due to it being improper and not very elegant. 

Clayman was sufficiently fucked in the head. What kind of reasoning is that?

I'm sure he just used puppets as mediums to fight because he was weaker than the other Demon Lords. And that's the truth, in direct combat, Frey and Carrion would win. The only Demon Lord that Clayman was more powerful than is Ramiris. Not a very high bar to cross at all.

Even then, Milim said those puppets of Clayman were super weak, but her sense of strong and weak is incredibly skewed.

Clayman was a Demon Lord Seed, if a weak one magically, so maybe his puppets were actually somewhat impressive, enough to let him stand on even ground with Carrion and Frey as equal Demon Lord Seeds.

It's unfortunate that I'll never get to see his puppets. Maybe he was actually talented at crafting puppets, and I'll never know, though I don't really regret it at all. He got what was coming to him.

It's nice that I finally managed to deal with everyone involved with that attack on that day. I don't care for Kagali and her Deathman's involvements as, in the end, they were just acting on orders and did not play a direct part in anything.

Yuuki was the mastermind behind it, with Clayman as his primary piece, and so they were dealt with, and hopefully, that's the end of it.

I followed Sasha to her lab as she continued talking about the Golem with glee. Sasha said she didn't specialize in Golem Magic, but I was beginning to doubt that.

"Oh! And thanks to those top-tier materials you provided me, this is by far the most powerful Golem I have ever set my eyes on, let alone heard of!"

I tilted my head. "What did I give you again?" I kinda just threw a bunch of random things to Sasha when I showed her to her lab. Thankfully, the castle I inherited from Clayman already had a lab.

Sasha sighed. "Of course, you don't even realize the sheer rarity of what you had handed to me. The information you gave me alone was priceless! Who knew that combining Magisteel with Gold and Silver in such a specific way would result in an entirely new ore that is more powerful than even Magisteel!"

Sasha continued running over to a small chunk of metal and rubbing her face against it before holding it up to her heart. "And then the Magisteel you gave me was so pure! You even gave me the scales of a Dragon Lord Boss! That kind of stuff is literally priceless! Kingdoms would literally sell their Princesses to you, and make you at least a Marquis for the stuff you gave me!"

"Is it? I just asked Raiden for some scales, and she quickly gave me some of hers."

Raiden may not have been a Spiritual Lifeform yet, but she was still able to control her body to a very significant extent, forcing her scales to fall off and quickly regrow was childsplay to her. 

"I-I think I'm going to cry." Sasha mumbled. "If anyone heard you, they'd begin to riot."

Maybe my view of the world is beginning to become skewed?

Once we got to Sasha's lab, she gestured towards the back, where I could see the Golem.

Regaining her usual energy, Sasha shouted. "Behold! My magnum opus!" 

I nodded. "It does look pretty strong. I see you tampered with the design quite a bit."

The Golem still somewhat resembles Cell, but it was nowhere near as identical as the drawing I made.

Sasha nodded. "I made some changes to make it more combat efficient."

The Golem was made out of Adamantite and Raiden's scales, making the body alone on the level of Legend Grade Equipment. 

"I see you used Adamantite. I didn't give you very much, Are you sure it was a good idea to use so much on this Golem?"

Sasha nodded. "Of course! I never do things half-heartedly. If I had the tools available to me, then I wanted to make this Golem the best it could be!"

I shrugged my shoulders. "Fair enough. I'm surprised you were able to mold the Adamantite though. Even experienced blacksmiths would likely struggle and fail."

"Tehe, well, I made some contraptions that would mold the Adamantite for me, it wouldn't work for forging a weapon due to how precise that craft is, but for the general shape of a Golem, it was sufficient."

"I see. Work smarter, not harder, huh?"

"Hmm, I like that saying, work smarter, not harder." Sasha agreed.

I observed the Golem closely. There was a blade protruding out of the Golem's elbow, the blade itself was at the Unique Grade. I had given Sasha a lot of things to play around with, some Unique Grade Equipment was included.

The general color scheme was the same as the one in my design, but the joints were a bit different, likely to make the Golem more flexible and capable of turning 360°, as well as rotating its upper body completely.

Golems could be naturally born out of magicules like Monsters are, but this was pretty rare. There were two general types of Golems that people made, and they generally made these with pretty basic materials, clay, iron, stone, or wood, nothing fancy like Magisteel generally, let alone Adamantite.

Once a Golem is made, there are two possible routes to wielding it. One is controlling the Golem as a puppet through Arts with the user's own energy. This is what Clayman apparently did. The second option is to make the Golem a vessel for a living spirit, like Daemons or Elementals. This is what happened with Beretta.

"I'm assuming if you ever use this guy, you'll be controlling it yourself?" I questioned.

Sasha shrugged her shoulders. "Both methods could work. I had Magic Circuits embedded inside the Golem so that if I had a Spirit possessing it, then I could still maintain control over the Golem."

"Alright, well, do what you wish with it, good work Sasha."

"Thanks, Boss!"

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Author's Note:

Sup everyone, back with another chapter of Daemon. We get to learn a bit more about what's going on with Carrion, his kingdom's capital was destroyed by Milim after all. 

After talking to Ingvild there is finally a smut scene after a good while, I think I still got it in me.

I explained my reasons for moving DxD to the future in a previous Author's Note, but for those of you who didn't read that, basically DxD will break Tensura's setting. It is nowhere near as high tier as tensura, but the sheer bs present in that verse would ruin some of my plans. Penetrate alone would change some things, not to mention the free for all when it comes to souls there. I accept the blame for that, I added Ingvild pretty early on due to poor impulse control.

Now moving onto the Magicule circulation technique, I wanted to explain it a bit more since I thought it was kind of confusing. This is a technique Velgrynd developed to conserve Magicules when she went to other worlds due to the low Magicule concentration in those worlds. Basically you circulate Magicules throughout your body constantly, and when they are used/expelled you quickly reabsorb what Magicules you can since the Magicule density will be heightened. That's basically it, it sounds easy but it is very difficult, even Daemons with their control over Magicules would fail to do something like this without a lot of training. It is by no means a cheat to infinite magicules as Felix said, but it is still very good nonetheless, a nice little power up for everyone.

Anyways, hope you all enjoyed, thanks for reading, peace.