I used a teleportation glyph linked to the massive basement of my estate back in Kuoh but as I was trying to connect to it, I froze and my face twisted as I I could feel the glyph being unable to connect to the area. This could mean a number of things, a passive shield to stop teleportation, someone standing in the clearly marked spot for them not to stand there as it was the designated teleportation spot. Or more likely my overactive imagination was that my mansion was blown to shit or destroyed.
For a moment I considered my options before I opened another Glpyh this one leading to just outside Kuoh school, and thankfully with a flash of light myself, Artemis, Kii, and Atalanta were teleported back to Earth leaving behind the hellscape jungle Sirzechs ordered me to create to spread quickly across the Underworld more towards the Greek section of the Underworld though.
As the flash of red light from the teleportation faded, I realized how lucky my teleport was. Instead of teleporting into one of the empty gardens that the school had for the students to relax in after club activities and other stuff... I landed in a literal wasteland.
Kuoh Academy was a burnt-out shell of itself and there was clear battle damage everywhere with the taint of the tainted holy light that Fallen Angels used... But it seemed that the bodies were at least cleaned up although there were plenty of blood splatter and messes there were no actual bodies left behind during this attack.
"The Fallen attacked while the school was in session... It's surprising that the supernatural authorities haven't restored this place yet though." Artemis flatly noted and I bit my lip as I leaned down and stuck my finger against a dried blood splatter after a moment of scanning the dead blood I learned the blood was from a teenage, female, and the blood was approximately a day old from its decomposition.
'Where the hell was Rias and the others?' I thought and then our little party quickly flew back over to the mansion so I could see what had happened and once again it was a burnt-out wreck same as much of the city of Kuoh I could see in the distance as the mansion was literally within sight of the school or less than a mile or two away. Going into the burnt-down mansion I saw the destroyed remains of the small life I built over the last couple of months here.
The kitchen in which Klee and Ei burnt down a dozen times trying to make breakfast to show their love. The shower Ei and Monet blew me in. The bedroom in which I impregnated Rias, the property's backyard that my family of creations got into a huge snowball fight with, via Monet's summoned snow... All of it was fucking ruined.
While I was standing there, Artemis came over and laid a hand on my shoulder and she told me not unkindly but still seriously. "Jake, you need to get your head straight... The only beings to die here were the tainted Fallen before there was an outburst of ice magic and the battle ended." She explained and my mind leaped to Serafall or maybe Grayfia saving Rias and my creations so I nodded and with that knowledge, I decided Earth didn't have any information left for me.
When I left Earth, Rias, her peerage, and the rest of my creations were supposed to only stay with the Gremory Clan for a couple of days to train as well as do a little baby shower to celebrate Rias becoming pregnant and literally setting a record for the youngest noble bloodline carrying devil to become pregnant at eighteen years old.
'So hopefully she and the rest were still there.' I thought before taking a breath and grimacing seeing the ghost town Kuoh was with how the Fallen Angels had clearly attacked it. 'Was the Great War back in swing, and was it Kokabiel who attacked?' I thought before shaking my head and turning to Artemis who raised an eyebrow as she patiently waited for me to clear my head.
"Be ready for hostile wards to attack us as we teleport. I am going to try to teleport us to the Gremory Estate." I said and Artemis's face twitched into a wry smile as she held up a hand and told me to stop.
"Wait... I will co-opt the false moon in the Underworld and teleport us through the wards through the moonlight." She said and then Artemis pulled me, Kii, and Atalanta into a hug with our faces smothered into her breasts and in between breaths I felt through my flesh crafting power how my body was covered in some kind of conceptual essence.
I realized it was the essence of the moon as we felt our feet switch from standing on the soft grass outside my mansion to standing on the hard marble in front of the Gremory Estate's main door. Even as I somewhat reluctantly pulled my face from Artemis's large breasts I could already hear the ringing of an alarm as the sounds of flapping devil wings filled the air.
"Wait it's me!" I called out waving my hands to the red armored-clad devils flying at me with lances paused at the sight of me. "I just back from my mission and don't know what's going on and Rias's home in the human world on Earth has been destroyed when I rushed back to her... Is she ok?!" I demanded and it seemed like the lead guard of this little company was sure of my identity as he raised a hand for me to stop for a second.
"Yes young lord, Lady Rias, has returned home safely though stressed... I am calling my superior via magic circle in my helmet, please do not resist as Lady Grayfia comes to make sure of your identity." The guard said with the armored devils landing a respectful distance in front and around us to make sure we didn't escape but it was clear that we were still under suspicion.