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Chapter 36 - Quinella Awakening

"Hi" Regular Speech

'Hi' Thought

"(Hi)" Speaking through a mechanically synthesised voice

"[Hi]" Communication through technology

[Hi] Aurora talking

*"Hi"* Speech imbued with power

*Hi* Emphasis or Sound Effect

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From the very beginning, when she understood her existence, she knew her purpose. Her very reason for existing. Her goal…

Everything was prepared for her. Unlike other lifeforms on this blue world. She has a purpose from the beginning. Unlike regular humans who aimlessly wander on the planet's surface, wasting the limited resources of this world for pointless things, she, on other hand, already knows what to do and what is expected of her. A perfect piece for the puzzle.

Her name is Quinella and she is the Biological Assistant Model. The perfect assistant, created to help her master in any way and form he requests of her, and she will make sure it's done to perfection.

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Her consciousness surfaced and the very first thing she heard was a liquid of some sorts. At least that is what her mind tells her.

She could feel this liquid all over her. Making her understand that this is how it feels to be inside of a Bio-Chamber. She didn't feel anything underneath her or above her. The silver-haired girl knew she was simply floating inside of it.

She quickly realised that her body is now naturally feeling things. She could now even feel her breathing mask on her face. And the rubber strings around her face which was keeping the mask in place.

This was new to her and now she finally understood how it feels like to...simply feel.

Her Master's technology is something she is in awe of and, somewhat, annoyed of at the same time. Annoyed because when she was an A.I. with a hard light body, she would feel extremely close to feeling and experiencing things like humans. Still, no matter how much she tried, she could not experience anything through those actions.

The only thing she compares this to through her research is like holding things with extremely thick gloves. No matter how hard you try you won't be able to feel anything while holding stuff with those kinds of gloves.

After feeling her surroundings, she felt her body, the body designed by her Master and created through millions, close to a billion simulations.

Putting it from a regular human's perspective, she has spent hundreds of thousands of years finding the best variant for her genome before bringing it to life.

And now, she can finally feel her heartbeat, and it was amazing, the feeling of her heart pumping blood throughout her body. Making her truly alive, and under all that, she can feel the humming of her power.

As a perfect being, she was created with a basic level of power. Which is classified as the Ultimate class by the standards of this world.

While she could have started as a Super-Class. It's not recommended with her genome as it would affect her latent potential.

Thus, she was created with basic strength but with a little bit of training she could achieve Super-class in just a matter of weeks, and even reach the upper half of the top ten rankings in several months.

Not that she will be doing that, not now at least… She has much more pressing matters to get to.

Using her psionic energy, one of the more experimental powers that she has added to herself, she accessed the cameras in the room and saw that her Master was already there. Looking at her with a fascinated look….and so… were his stress relievers...

Internally she smiled to herself, her powers can access Aurora technology just like she predicted and her master is already here waiting for her to come out!

Without wasting any more time, she opened her eyes.

~~~~~~Marcus~~~~~~

She was beautiful. Honestly, the hard light hologram was hard to resist. Now, however, it will be even more so. Her body was a complete copy of the design I drew. She created the DNA strand to the very perfection—to the smallest details of that drawing.

Honestly, this kind of amazes me. With her creation, I can now officially create proper… life…

Well, I already could do it with the S.P.B.A. But those are not quite there yet. Not that they will be there anytime soon. Not before we have completely mastered this specific technomancy.

To see the impact of a soul on a biologically programmed individual can lead to unforeseen developments. Something I don't want to see.

"She looks identical to the hologram… this is incredible…" Le Fay said with awe. She was the only person in the room who understood the amount of effort needed to make a biological body look exactly like that. This is not some flesh crafting or plastic surgery…

"Well yeah? You expected her to be something else?" Jeanne asked with some disbelief. It quite amused me how clueless some people can be at times.

"You do realise that there was nothing to base on the physical body? Only a hologram and a drawing? 

It's like billions of miniature organic puzzle pieces coming together to work perfectly, she is created from the very DNA strand to look like that. It's, simply put, an engineered life creation. Something you could only see in extreme science fiction. Even the Biblical God could not do that. He created his angels which *should* follow his degree but look what happened? The first creation left and created a faction of his own, while the other half became far too curious with some things like lust or greed and have become the fallen."

"So you're saying they are failed creations?" Jeanne asked with raised eyebrows. She has an amused look. No doubt she is going to use that as a verbal assault on some unlucky angels or fallen in future.

"Perhaps? Maybe in the Biblical God's eyes they were. This, however, is different. Because from her looks and to her personality, she is the creation that our Master has designed her to be." Le Fay explained with a certain tone. The way she said it sounded like she truly believes it.

I could only Internally smirk hearing that, the blonde witch has quite a lot of confidence in me.

"Is she as strong as you?" Hippolyta asked me, changing the theme of conversation.

"If you are asking about her reactive adaptation then, no. It's not as powerful as mine. For such power like mine, you need to go through several genetic adaptability sessions.

And her genome is built quite differently. But, she is still quite strong, around Ultimate class at the moment, and she has pretty much limitless potential in general." I explained to the redhead beauty. She slowly nodded at me. There was a certain look on her face. She most likely sees it as a challenge.

"I see… so you can create beings this strong now…" Artemis said with some sweat rolling down her forehead.

I rolled my eyes. Finally, some people are slowly, but eventually catching up…

Sure enough, the conversations have stopped as Quinella has opened her eyes.

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The chemical water started to get drained out and Quinella finally touched the ground. She looked around for a moment, inspecting her hands and then her feet. She took in the sights before removing the breathing mask.

Once the chemicals were all drained out, the Bio-Chamber opened and she could finally get out.

The first few steps were a little bit shaky but quickly she started to properly walk. Once she was in front of Marcus, a pink aura surrounded her. That moment, her silver hair turned into pink one.

The group of maids' eyes went wide when they felt her energy signature. It was...a lot. Not as much as Artemis… but the beauty was just created!

With a simple burst of energy, the chemicals were removed from her body. She was dry.

Marcus took in the sight of the naked beauty in front of him. The way her hair hides her most important parts is quite amusing and sexy. The ultimate tease for a male.

Quinella likes the traits he'd spend his time creating...

"Master Marcus~~~" Quinella spoke for the first time and the first official thing she said was her Master's name.

Once the words left her lips she moved her hand to her mouth. There was a bright smile on her lips.

"So, this is what it feels like to talk?" She mused with a fascinated look before focusing back on her Master. She took a step forward and leaned into his chest. The moment she felt his warm body, she took a deep breath. It was enough for her heart to race faster! It is amazing to finally be able to feel, touch, and smell her Master and creator!

Marcus wrapped his hands around her waist. The beauty snuggled into him even more.

"Yes, it is. How do you like it?" He asked her softly while stroking his hand through her back.

Quinella purred hearing his voice. Yes… she knows the effect it has on girls. She recorded that on several occasions. And now that she experienced it in person, it makes her tingly, especially when he speaks so tenderly and with so much care. She feels like she could blow up the moon with just a snap of her fingers!

"Yes… this is very good." She rubbed herself into him more. Yep, she is not going away from this! Nope!

"Good. Then I suggest dressing up and we can go to the living room." 

Hearing this she rubbed herself more into him. Before pulling away.

"Very well. We can always snuggle more later, now that I am here in proper physical form." She said that with a sigh. Before having a certain glint in her eyes.

That moment, she suddenly remembered the gift she had prepared for him!

"Master~~~" She got his attention.

Marcus' eyes widened for a bit as he saw her eyes suddenly have electricity running through her irises. But what shocked him was the blue lightning instead of yellow…

Before he could ask her, she pulled him into a kiss. It was an extremely amateur kiss from her side. But it did its job. Because the inventor felt something had washed him over.

He pulled away from the kiss and looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Look around~~~" She said with a flirty look.

The black-haired teen looked around. His eyes widened for a bit before he understood what happened.

"Psionic energy working like an interface to access the technology…" As Marcus said as he looked at the camera and was able to access it and see through it… 

Himself… hugging the beauty in his hands and the group of maids quietly waiting for him to finish their first meeting.

Once he got enough of watching through the camera, he pulled out and then accessed one of the Bio-Chambers…

He can use it as easily as if he was there in person…

A very convenient power…

"Indeed. Do you like it?" Quinella asked with a hopeful tone. She wants to be praised.

"Of course. But, next time…" He squeezed her ass hard! Making her squeak from such abrupt action…

"Experimental things are only to be used after going through rigorous simulations and tests. You don't just ignore guidelines." He said that sharply, making her nod quickly multiple times.

"Good girl. Remember good girls are rewarded and bad ones are punished. You don't want to be banned from cuddling do you?" 

Her face instantly turned pale! Like hell! There is no way in hell she wants to lose that privilege! This is madness!

"I understand! This won't happen again!" She said that with a serious tone. It sounded like a promise for life!

Marcus nodded at her and stroked her hair, he was satisfied that she quickly understood that.

"Good girl. Now go and dress up." He released her from his hold. 

Quinella nodded and went over to pick up her clothes. They were prepared by her when she was still a hard-light hologram.

She smirked, feeling his gaze on her. Oh, it was expected that he would look at her like that. But now she has that exciting feeling in her gut. Her body knows that her companion finds her body very enticing.

While she wanted to tease him, she could always do that later. Now she wants to leave this place and go to the living room where she can snuggle with her Master more!

First, she put her white panties on, then followed by a bra. However, this was a good time to show the difference between her and those cute maids…

"Little help, Marcus?" The silver-haired assistant of his showed her back to her Master. She called him by his name for the simple sake of showing that their intimacy level was on a completely different level.

And to the maids surprise, the inventor walked over to her side and helped clip the bra.

"My thanks~~~" She said with a coy smile as she turned around. After that, she put on her white stockings, and while they were not as long as the maids were, they fit with the clothes she is wearing at the moment.

Next was a white and gold miniskirt and a white t-shirt… finishing on the top, she put a knitted sweater with autumn colours on it… making her hair take a similar colour to platinum gold…

All in all, she is just dressed in Marcus colours… indirectly showing everyone her place.

Before she started to walk she got into wintertime slippers.

Once she was done she felt quite satisfied with her clothes.

"All done~~~" She walked over to him. Marcus took her hand and pulled her closer. The beauty quickly ended up next to his side, his hand wrapped around her waist. She used that moment to start snuggling as they started walking out of the room.

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Now Artemis knew why the human witch had such a reaction to Quinella gaining her body. The woman from the very beginning is shown to have a much greater relationship with their Master.

More importantly, the moment the fellow silver head called him by the name he became something akin to a loving man… 

It was a silly display… but… it worked wonders for the maid Goddess to realise the gap…

It even shows how much more consideration there is in his actions. This means that he cares much more about her than the other maids…

'Probably even more than those devil pillars he grew up with. Maybe only that blonde devil has a similar pull…' Artemis drew some comparison as they were walking out of the genetic wing and towards the lifts.

Only for Marcus to stop next to his workshop, he pulled Quinella there, the curious maids followed him as well.

"I prepared something for you when you did your calculations…" The teen inventor said that as he walked over to his computer table and picked something from there.

"Oh? You have something for me?" The beauty asked with a wondrous tone. She is already getting gifts!!!

While the rest of the maids frowned and wondered what he would give her!?

When he pulled out a golden ring, all the maids instantly had horrified looks. 

'''''Is he going to propose to her just like that!?'''''

All five of them thought the same thing!!!

This is horrible beyond belief if it's true!!!

"Oh!? The Ring of Focus!" Quinella instantly knew what kind of ring it was.

The maids sighed from relief, realising that it was not an engagement ring. Nonetheless, this was their first time hearing this 'Ring of Focus'.

"Is...it one of the Rings of Solomon?" Le Fay asked with a realising look.

"Indeed… well, the second generation of rings." As Marcus said he showed his hands and four rings appeared on his fingers.

"Oh! I was wondering where your rings were, Master!" Le Fay asked with a blush as she realised she was paying too much attention to him… she thought that she was being too stalker-ish…

"After the whole fight with Superman, I decided to make them soul bound." Marcus clarified to the blonde witch as he recalled his rings.

"I see… make sense…" The blonde nodded in understanding.

Seeing that it was the perfect chance Quinella lifted her right hand and showed her dandy fingers.

"Marcus if you would?" The beauty asked with a coy smile.

Seeing what she wanted, Marcus decided to give her that pleasure. But, internally he decided that she is going to need to work for such pleasures she is receiving right now. She still needs to patch up Aurora and upgrade the font looks, they look far too primitive after getting used to previous ones.

"Sure." 

That moment Quinella realised that something was off. Her new biological body is telling her something which she doesn't understand.

For a second she had a thoughtful look almost missing the part where her beloved creator put a ring on her right index finger.

The ring resized itself before fitting perfectly on her dandy finger.

"Beautiful… As expected from my master, even after inventing so many things, the earliest creations are still cream of the crop." The beauty said with a fascinated look. Even now, after several years of rapid development, the basic formula of the Ring of Focus is still one of the bests and most likely will continue to be so as long as the base principle of magic remains the same. 

After inspecting the ring, she used her magic, a pink circle appeared above her palm. She looked on at the circle with fascination…

She realised that the ring had an inscribed circle already… meaning this was her circle…

Her heartbeat easily accelerated. She felt quickly touched. Her Master already prepared things for her like that. Even though she wanted to make her transfer to a human body a surprise and get a drop on him in a good way. Turns out he did one on her with this…

Quinella realised that her Master is very good in all of this… and her recently created heart already is turning into a mess…

"Beautiful… I love those feather-like drawings on the circle…" The beauty said tenderly as she inspected the circle.

"It is good that you liked it. This was a necessary gift so I decided to add some more personal touch to it." Marcus explained with a smile as he saw how much she liked it.

"Hmm… I see… a very good moment for a gift… now however I need to outdo this." The silver-haired assistant said with a nod to herself. She is pumping up to outdo him!

"...I don't think gifting works like that…'' Marcus said with a slightly baffled tone. This is not a competition…

"Nonsense, as your assistant I have to constantly outdo myself to earn your approval." She explained how she sees this. She nodded to herself while saying that as well.

The teen just rolled his eyes at her. Quinella missed that because she was looking at the ring with fascination. For the beauty, it felt like an engagement or even a wedding ring…

"Right. Now that you have this let's go upstairs." He offered his hand to the silver-haired girl who quickly took it. Once again she snuggled to him as they started walking back to the corridor…

Completely ignoring the looks Artemis and Atalanta had in the workshop… it is hard to ignore two suns in the room… as at the moment, the workshop holograms had two suns as the 'background' image. These were the Alpha Centauri stars… 

Well, this was their first time in the workshop…

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Quinella was sweating buckets of nervousness as she realised something… she forgot to make back up!

'How did I forget this!? Is this a human thing? I don't like this at all! Now Marcus has that look! No! Don't look at me like that!' 

"Well, your first job as my proper official assistant is to patch up Aurora and make the fonts," Marcus said with a matter of fact tone. Making the silver-haired beauty nod a couple of times in a very short span.

"Don't worry! Leave this to me!" She quickly said with a serious tone. A holographic window appeared in front of her as she called it with a thought.

For a second she grimaced. She realised that this was quite an early font look Aurora had. Way before her self-awareness manifested.

She quickly started fixing this as she wants to get to the part where they snuggle! Not this! But she understood that her haste caused this… a lesson she will remember.

While Marcus used this moment to check out the space gun project and the docks which are under revision since the scavenger project is going to expand the sizes of the docks, adding dry docks in the process as well as to make sure ships the size of like Enterprise can easily fit.

However, what is truly going to be a marvel of the current age is that the docks are going to be underground. Creating lifts powerful enough to lift containers with water and ships is going to be entertaining to make.

Still, the exit point is going to be just outside the beach so another set of powerful holographic reflectors is going to be built.

'Hmm… I need to check how Realitus particle works with water…' 

As Marcus was enjoying his afternoon, tinkering with designs for the docks. Quinella was working with blazing speed to patch up and upgrade Aurora.

She, however, worked to make sure Aurora does not develop self-awareness, and does not reach certain conclusions. As someone who was an Ex-A.I., she knows how to work around them and place these specific restrictions. She doesn't want a competition or a sibling.

While Artemis and the rest of the maids decided to do something else. This is way above their understanding seeing the pair just do their thing…

For this, they decided to do something entertaining…

"Why don't we go and kill some Dinosaurs?" Jeanne offered to them.

"...is there a specific reason why dinosaurs?" Le Fay asked curiously. As Jeanne's offer was...way too weird and specific.

"Because they are almost as scary as a certain someone…" Jeanne said as she looked at Quinella.

"I see… a good proposition. Why don't we go all-in? I always wanted to hunt such fascinating creatures." Artemis nodded at the proposition. This sounds like a very good way to spend some time away from the current mess.

Eventually, Hippolyta nodded too after watching Quinella and Marcus being in their small worlds… she is weary of this woman, they are clicking together far too close for her comfort…

Without wasting any more time Jeanne started leading them to the Entertainment Dome.

~~~~~~Belarus~~~~~~

A flash of bronze and blue—a beautiful woman with brown hair and sharp glasses. Her blue eyes looked as if they held lots of wisdom and intellect. She is what is considered a serious and intelligent beauty.

The brown-haired beauty looked around and saw that she appeared in the woods not far from a wide highway.

What stands out about her is that she has that certain aura of authority around her. It's as if she was not a normal being and is part of the very nature around her.

She walked several steps forward and looked towards what looked like a border between countries.

There were armed soldiers there, as well as police officers. This was the border security branch of the military, responsible for the security of the nation's borders.

"Ah yes… Belarus is a dictatorship so the security is much more obvious here…" She said with a small amount of annoyance.

Her gaze went to the nation on the other side of the barbed fence. She could feel raw magic there, fermenting the place.

Yet, none of it is flowing beyond the border…

In other words, the genius inventor is marking his turf and not even allowing magic to leave its place.

Petty… and it means that he is serious about his privacy…

'Now how should I approach this? The most civil way possible?' The beauty had a thoughtful look. Her hand was on their chin as she wanted to talk to him more than anything. 

And of course, find out how Artemis is doing. Oh, she knows there is almost zero chance to get her back. Only a lunatic would miss a chance to have a literal goddess as a maid. Especially a teenager or young adult.

The Silver-haired Goddess of hunt is one of the greatest eye candies in a mythical world. Not only that but countless Gods and other supernatural beings were aiming for her hand in marriage…

Well, those times passed and not many pantheons and beings bring that up anymore. They know it's pointless, it was the same with her. She never saw anyone worthy of her.

However… that might be going to change… that's why she is on the hunt… her version of it.

Her eyes stayed on the border terminal for a bit before she looked around. It's quite fascinating and even awkward to do such a thing. She could not teleport into the nation on the other side of this.

Her analysis told her that this whole nation has an extremely powerful space lock. This means that supernatural beings can't teleport or even use space magic. However, she is wondering if he has the means to teleport regardless of the lock?

'Most likely powerful machinery which can fight as well… abusing what supernatural are used to while capitalising on their confusion… using many underhanded tactics used by humans while utilising magic as assistance… meaning he has high respect for technology while magic falls to a lower category.

He probably doesn't have that much high respect for the supernatural? This is leaning towards human supremacy… hmm… caution is advised even if I am coming here in peace…'  She thought sharply as she started walking away from the highway and towards the forest… she is going to jump over the fence…

What she didn't realise… is that she was already on the radar even if she did not touch the high concentration of magic…

"This is East Ranger Battalion Delta squad 7. I have spotted a Greek God skulking around the perimeter requesting further orders." A figure sitting high on a pine tree said while looking through his scope.

"[For now, watch and observe. We were prepared for their inevitable arrival.]" Hearing his orders, the ranger continued to watch the brown-haired goddess through his scope.

However, deities have so-called six senses, no matter how good one is hidden they can feel something...

"Hmmm? Strange… I felt something? Early warning system? Well, most likely, I should not be shocked if he already knows my arrival…" The Goddess has quite a high opinion of someone who can achieve something like this one did. So, she is not surprised that he already found her.

~~~~~~Underworld~~~~~~

Serafall entered her office, a tired sigh escaped from her mouth. Sirzechs and her were able to pacify the council, well, more like, use their greed. Now that they know that even devils can have Sacred Gears. Greed triumphed over fear.

The old coats are not that afraid because they are realities away. However, they panicked with the rapid development of Marcus Goldman.

Now, more than ever, they could not comprehend the speed of his progress. Honestly, she would do it if not for her being there along the way.

Thankfully, she is allowed to tell quite a bit now that he is so at large…

As she got into her seat the very next moment a circle appeared on her table.

"What now? Let me be! I just want to cuddle with Master~~~" Serafall said angrily, however she was far too tired to make her voice sound threatening 

Eventually, her eyes ended up on the circle. It was a communication circle and it was a Fallen Angel one… more specifically… Governor-General… Azazel…

'Great… here it comes… shit ton of communications…' The black-haired Satan eyebrow twitched.

She knew that there will be a lot of attention to her as she is the only contact for Marcus to other factions. That's why she left yesterday quite early so that she could get enough sleep and be ready for chaos which is the next day.

Now she needs to suck it up and deal with this so that she could return to her Master's embrace…

Without wasting any more time, she activated the circle and saw the figure of the Governor-General, a figure she has not seen in decades honestly… though she did hear somewhere that this guy wants to finally end this uneasy status quo with proper peace… Hopefully, she hoped it's about that and not Marcus…

"Why hello there Satan Leviathan! You look tired, I hope I am not disturbing you?" Azazel said with a charismatic smile. He was dressed in a lab coat, Serafall assumes he was calling from his man cave.

The man is eccentric… but still far cry from what her Master can come up with… 

His obsessions with trains proves that. She would not be surprised if those Maglevs could transform into hundred metres long robots of mass destruction because...why not?

"No... it's fine… long meeting… What is it that you want, Azazel? You don't call by yourself like that unless it's very urgent or… there is something you want?" She asked while massaging her forehead.

"Oh! So cold! You're breaking my heart!" For a second Azazel pretended that his heart hurt from her cold words…

But, then he got serious…

"Indeed. You are not wrong. I am calling you because you are the only link to the supernatural world with a certain someone." He said that with a knowing look.

"Oh? You need to be more specific with this." Serafall pretends that she doesn't know what he is talking about.

"Right… it's not going to work on me. You are far too tired to give a proper poker face anyway…' The fallen said with an amused look while shaking his head.

Serafall clicked her tongue in frustration, before sighing in annoyance.

"You want to meet Marcus Goldman?" She asked with a deadpan look.

"Indeed. I want a meeting set up. And for that, I am willing to spend quite a bit. Don't look so annoyed, your race will profit from this." He said with a bright smile reminding that of a kid…

Serafall could only sigh before focusing on her connection with her Master… soon enough she got the information on when to make the meeting…

"Very well… I will set up one meeting with him." Serafall said with a tired sigh.

"Nice!" 

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