I smoked a joint while working the grill on my porch recovering from the balls deep round the world marathon I put my Peerage through to properly christen my new aircraft hangar sized workshop. I'd soon be forging up some mean magitech to counter the various bullshit abilities found in this world. Absorption was a great trait to have here as if I leverage it with enough imagination I can counter pretty much everything.
Try Diahauser's Worthless trait. The guy can invalidate any magic he understands, but needs to observe the magic in detail to accomplish this. He would need to use magic to observe the magic, but if I am absorbing that observation magic then he is shit out of luck.
Although in that example I have the advantage of my Absorption magic being so much more complicated than any form of magic in this world except maybe Ajuka's formula bullshit magic that the guy would never be able to understand it in combat unless we fought for centuries.
That shit is known as Mystery for a reason Belial.
I honestly don't think Ajuka can counter my Fate magic with his all controlling formula magic either as I operate on out of verse principles that he has never had the chance to study. Basically his super power is understanding everyone's magic better than they do so he can counter anything.
Sirzechs, oddly enough, is the most dangerous to me because of how straightforward his gimmick is. He hits really really hard. The power of destruction is some neat stuff, but in the end its a force multiplier. Rias couldn't beat Riser because his defenses were too high for her to overcome. Brute force is king in this verse and Sirzechs is the pinnacle of brute power applied in the most potent way among Devilkind. No mystery, no fuss. Guy just kicks ass.
Hopefully we aren't in some Grimm Dark AU were he rapes his sister and mind wipes her on the reg.
That'd be pretty shitty.
Speaking of the devil, while I was flipping my steaks a teleportation crest lit up near my front door and out popped likely the most sexualized character in television broadcast anime, Rias Gremory, and her peerage. Que outraged homophobic noises now.
"Oh God!" Issei screamed and everyone but me flinched, "Put some clothes on! No one wants to see you naked dude!"
"Rias." I greeted over my shoulder, "Choke up on the dog's leash before I have to snip his cords."
"Issei." Rias looked at him sharply.
"What?" the protagonist of this world barked, "I don't know why we need some freaky nudist's help to beat the fried chicken!"
Jesus Christ this bitch can't keep a lid on the insane asylum she calls a Peerage.
"One more insult, Rias," I said as I continued flipping my steaks, "And you are down a Pawn and anyone stupid enough to get in between me and him."
Akeno fried the kid with electricity before his big mouth got him destroyed.
Good girl.
I am a legit ultimate class pure blood Devil chilling at my house. The idea that a reincarnated Devil can roll up and insult me here and walk away from it alive is laughable, and the only blowback would be from her connection to Sirzechs.
"I see you have a good Queen to balance out that notorious Gremory light touch." I turned and smiled as I finished my task causing the whole peerage to avert their virgin eyes.
I just finished an orgy and after I refuel I intend to start another. In what world would I be wearing clothes?
"So what can I do for all of you?" I grinned after I took another drag on my joint.
"Do you mind if we talk inside, after you get dressed?" Rias requested with a flushed look on her face that wasn't turned away enough to not see me out of the corner of her big blue eye.
"Sure." I agreed pleasantly, "It will have to wait a couple more minutes, and I expect you to leave everyone but the Queen outside. You can never tell what kind of mess the animals get into when we aren't looking and I won't let your pack track their filth into my home."
God I love me some casual racism.
Seeing the Gremory King grit her teeth but not fight back let me know just how deeply desperate she was, and let's face it. No one would accuse Rias of being smart. The first thing I look for in a girl is intelligence, because if she doesn't have that… she is mine.
After plating my steaks and putting them under a spell that would activate a stasis field after they finished resting I led the fly into my web and put on a fluffy bathrobe.
Rather than let her conduct her business when we sat down in my office, I held up a hand and started rolling a trio of joints and offered Rias one.
"I don't smoke." She shook her head.
"It's the Devil's Lettuce, girl." I insisted, "Don't make this weird. You're acting like you're going to lose your white wings here."
"Fine." she huffed and I lit her joint with a flame on the tip of my thumb.
Despite apparently not smoking, the girl didn't balk or cough, but that is probably the smoothness of the herb rather than her lying to me. I don't care where you are from and where you think the best smoke comes from. Let me assure you it comes from Hell. This shit is the dopest dope I've ever smoked.
Akeno took the offered joint with the proper manners.
"I don't leave the house often these days," I smiled at the girls after breathing out a dense stream of smoke, "But even I have heard that congratulations are in order. Your father moved up the date for your sale to the Phenex boy. Smart choice for the man. The Phenex's have proven particularly fecund of late. I am sure he is just ecstatic thinking of all those little grandchildren that your union will bring."
"There's no doubt he is enthusiastic about the match." Rias barely kept herself from growling, "That is why I am here right now."
"So considerate of you to deliver the invitation in person." I grinned and clasped my hands together loudly out in front of my chest with bent arms.
"I actually wanted to talk about your last rating game against Seekvaira and how you powered up so quickly." Rias got to the meat of our discussion.
Damn I want my lunch, putting my hunger on the back burner I smiled, "Ask away, I am an open book."
"Really!" Rias perked up, "That's wonderful. How did you get so strong so fast?"
"Ooouuu." I fake groaned, "I am pay to play after the copyright page. What do you have for me that is worth the secrets of my power? Don't be afraid to wow me with your offer."
The gorgeous redhead huffed, "How very Devil of you."
I chuckled, "Come know, Rias. Your parents had to have loved you enough at one point to teach you how things are done down here in the Underworld. Not even God had a charitable hand open for us."
Watching them both flinch was a sign of poor discipline in childhood, being forced to flinch in combat with just a word is a huge weakness.
"What do you want?" Rias refused to play ball.
"I want everything you can possibly imagine. I want money and women, power and sex, status, glory! I demand the finer things in life! And I have it all." I grinned.
"Surely there is something you want that I can use to get the help I need. I'll do anything to get out of this marriage to Raiser!" Rias broke so quickly.
"No you won't." I denied her.
"How the hell do you know that?" She actually growled this time.
Seems like Raiser is her trigger. Thanks Zeoticus for making this so easy for me.
"How long do you have?" I asked her while I leaned my elbows on my mahogany desk and pressed my finger tips together.
"Ten days." Rias answered.
"Cutting things short." I smirked, "I can turn your peerage into a force that can beat Raiser and his eclectic harem easily. But you wouldn't be able to go through with it. I'd have to break your peerage down and reforge them into real warriors, and the heart beating in that lovely chest would break far too early in the process for any good to come of it. Good thing you have other options."
"Name them." Rias demanded.
"You can always trust that your brother will pull some outrageous scheme off that will get you out of the marriage. After all, just because Ajuka wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire doesn't mean Sirzechs will let his precious Rias-tan marry someone she doesn't want to." I chuckled at how completely degrading the canon scheme is.
A lowly reincarnated devil shouts how a Pillar Heiress's virginity belongs to him and then beats a pure blood in a duel using holy weapons. The only reason Issei walked out of that party alive was because the whole thing smacked of Sirzechs' interference. The kid couldn't even teleport and he infiltrated a high class party with lethal weapons on his person.
Please.
"He is pushing the marriage." The girl said in despair.
"You could always become my lover." I smiled, "There are very few people with the status and age requirement necessary to challenge Raiser for your hand. Pretty much me and your cousin."
"That would just be trading one cage for another." Rias grimaced.
"You came in here and asked me to share power with you." I told her, "And you know exactly that the only thing worth power is life. Maybe you can find it from another source, but it seems like all your usual avenues are cut off. You can walk out and try your luck, but we both know that you don't have what it takes to beat Raiser. He was the obvious number two in our generation before my fight with Seekvaira. So now you are locked in. The Devil you know, or me."
"I won't." She grit her teeth and stood up, "I'll prove you wrong."
I tossed her a summoning circle for me.
"Good luck, Gremory." I smiled, "Keep the circle if things don't work out. Though I will be quite miffed if you lose and decide that being with Raiser is better than being with me cause I assure you this. You ain't never seen a man like me."