Chapter 113: Magical Tutelage and the Okinawa Island
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I plan to create a few groups within the sect and base them on my multiple lives.
For reference, Tsubasa and Mem-Cho, a half vampire and half devil respectively, would be in the Sorcerer Faction.
The Tiger Cubs, and once again Tsubasa who had white tiger Powers, would be in the Trigathar Faction.
Xenovia, Irina, and Asia in the future, will be in the God Emperor's Faction. Maybe I'll throw Ai and Ruby in there too, since she had a Spell Concept representing the powers of the Emperor.
I realize there were a few names I didn't mention, that's because I haven't put much thought into this before since it didn't have enough members.
But the more I think about it, the more I like it. It's good.
It's like a pantheon of its own, with the Gods in it being me from different lives. While the different factions are made out of followers of that particular me.
Who knows, this might work out for me for good. A Sect that's also a Pantheon.
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I left the tiger cubs to their job and joined the girls in the living room. Mem-Cho was here by now, and she was waiting for me to solve a problem with her spells.
We were focusing on teaching her how to create multiple Bubbles of Time now, but she was having difficulty controlling the spot where they would appear.
"Alright, Mem, you wait a bit. I'll look at the others first," I told her, making her let out a grunt.
Her problem took the longest to help, and in the meantime, I rather helped her out with Shoko and Yuzuru. Shoko's problem was not hard, she simply had a hard time using her mana efficiently and asked me for tips.
I had granted Shoko a Spell Concept. It's barely original though, one of the Seven Evils in my 5th life had this power.
[Spell Concept: Chaotic Magestra of the Word Soul Magic] – was her magic path.
[Details: Chaotic Magestra of the Word Soul Magic can shape reality with their spoken commands. This magic demands articulate expression and intense focus, turning mere words into tools for construction or weapons of mass destruction. The witch holds the power to manifest and manipulate on the tips of her lips, only constrained by her mana and clarity of imagination. Advanced practitioners can achieve remarkable feats, subtly altering the physical and ethereal realms. However, it's also fraught with risks; misused words can lead to unpredictable outcomes. It's a magic balancing potent creation with the discipline of restraint, granting the witch immense power in return for caution.]
It could affect the surrounding world, the reality, by her mere speech. She could also manifest things with a word; she could tell a rock to turn into gold and it would.
It was low reality manipulation through a verbal method. Though it had limitations, they weren't too much since her Sacred Gear helped this Spell Concept work. Shoko had the potential to reach greater length than one of the Seven Evils whom I copied this spell from. Still, her lack of mana was a concern.
"Is this good enough?"
"Mhm, yes. I think."
After helping her out by showing her a more optimal way of circulating her mana, I moved to Yuzuru.
As I've said before, Yuzuru had QI veins of Black Flame affinity. So I was teaching the Path of the Black Flame Dragon to her.
[Path of the Black Flame: A path running on a mixture of Qi affinities between darkness and fire, turning the user into a machine of destruction. Experienced users can demolish a continent into mere ashes with the [Black Dragon's Dance]. Upon reaching the [Gold] rank, the user would gain access to partial dragonification, as this is a path derived from a line of Black Dragons.]
Not everyone can learn it. I had it on my bucket list when I was choosing my path, but that's because my body's affinity didn't matter to me since I've been aiming for the Grandmist body.
But for others, learning this path would be a surefire way to death.
The Black Flame path is a path that was used by actual dragons, not meant for mere humans. It'd burn the human's veins and leave them crippled, or dead.
Unless of course, they had suitable veins to support it. Yuzuru was lucky. She can be my little Power of Destruction devil at this rate.
Of course, as of right now, she was only in the Copper Rank. I haven't properly passed the path down to her yet, she'll die even with her veins. I'll give it to her after she reaches Iron rank, where I'll give her an Iron Body suitable for the path.
Foundation, Copper, Iron, Jade, and Gold.
These were the five basic, and easy ranks. It took me fifteen years to reach gold and just a few more months to advance the two ranks above. It took me a year to reach the Copper Rank. How was Yuzuru at Copper already?
Well, it wasn't talent for sure. She was a newbie, so no talent would have helped her advance this fast. The reason is that she has me supporting her. Nobody supported my growth, there was nobody to provide me with a lightning aura to cultivate, as well as zero pills to boost my Qi.
But both Yuzuru and Asia were getting these benefits. I made them pills, and I also helped create an environment where they'll be able to gather their Path's Qi.
I'm basically hard carrying them now. After they'd reach Iron, I'd push pills down their throat that I can create at Overlord only, and raise them to Gold. It'll be easy till then; the Lord ranks will be harder.
After fixing a problem that Yuzuru had with her Cycling Technique, I focused on Mem-Cho.
"Wow, finally," she was pouting, with her arms crossed as she glared at me.
I pulled her into my arms and brought her to a light kiss, which made everyone in the near vicinity flinch for a second. They had not signed up for public indecency, and neither had Mem so she was shocked. When the kiss ended, she was too embarrassed to act angry and cleared her throat.
"S-so, how do I fix this? I can't properly choose the location where the bubbles will form," she explained her problem again.
I ignored the gazes of the girls, including Ai, and stroked my chin. "I think mental gymnastics is needed for this. I would have made you go through boring meditation at any other time, but thankfully modern worlds have games to fix that. Find a game that requires you to split your attention to multiple degrees at once. One that feels hard, not easy. And then you'll play it for a few days straight. You're a streamer so it shouldn't be that boring for you, just stream as you play."
"Oh… you sure it'll work?"
"Well," I shrugged my shoulders. "We'll see. If it doesn't I'll have to get down to more physical solutions."
"...."
Mem-Cho agreed to the solution and left my side a bit too fast.
After that, all of them focused on their idol training instead. Though Kana had been doing that from the get-go, only letting a few spare glances at us so far.
The night went on without a problem.
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Sleep wasn't as required as before for me, and its need will be entirely gone when I touch [Sage]. I sat on our house's rooftop, legs crossed, and cultivated under the darkening and roaring sky.
The once clear sky responded to my will to darken and grow stormy, rain danced around me as I cultivated the Storm Aura in the air, turning into Storm Qi. My breathing cycle gave birth to a new Qi in my Dantian, and my overall pool deepened.
Thanks to the Heaven and Earth Purification Wheel, and my breathing technique, I always had more Qi than my rank should usually have. I already had enough Qi for the Archlord Advancement. I've been trying to stabilize my Overlord transformation for the past two months, and it's almost done. It usually takes people decades for this, or years if one is extremely lucky and talented, but my unmatched experience helped me cut that time by a lot.
I should be able to achieve the Archlord Advancement soon, and therefore become a [Sage] right away. By divine ranking, a Sage should be equal to a Demi-God of this world. Though of course, that doesn't mean I'll be weaker than pure-blooded Gods, I already beat one to prove that wrong. It's just how it'd be viewed by people of this world, I suppose.
The entire night passed like that, and around 3 AM I stopped cultivating in the rain and decided to cultivate in the bedroom. Not in mine, though.
The rain stopped, a blissful petrichor left behind, and the sky cleared to let the moon shine down on the world. In this lovely weather, I knocked on Tsubasa's window. Twice. Her room lit up.
"Aqua…?" she rubbed her eyes and opened the window, her eyes reflecting the moon that was visible behind me. "What are you doing here? Ah…" she gasped as I pulled her into a kiss, her shock subsiding soon and she gave in.
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When the morning came, we got into our cars to leave for the beach. As I had promised Ai yesterday before leaving for school, we would go to the beach for the planned photoshoot. My family wasn't the only ones going on this vacation, however, Tsubasa and her family were also with us.
We initially planned to go to Anse Source d'Argent, in Seychelles, Africa. However, I didn't want to leave the country in these times; Japan was a stronghold for me, and the Shinto Pantheon's presence kept the Norse Gods at bay. If I left now for a silly reason like visiting a beach, I'd just doom myself.
So, we've rather changed course to visit Okinawa Island nearby. It's a land separate from Japan's main island, but it was still part of Japan, so the worry of invasion was the same as in the mainland.
We've planned this vacation to last a few days, that's why we had to take leave from school. So when school time came, and I wasn't present there, someone messaged me to ask me about my whereabouts.
[Rias: Hey, where are you? I heard you took a week's leave? Why?]
I was in the limousine, sitting with Ruby, Ai, Ichigo, Miyako, Tsubasa, and lastly Asia. Blue was driving the car, I've taken her away from the other cubs who were educating the two exorcists to accompany us. We were all chatting, and having a good family time, so I ignored Rias and left her on read.
The conversation from yesterday must be eating at her. As it should.
"Onii-chan, look," Ruby was showing me TikToks that I pretended to see while in my head I was considering the plans and goals for this trip.
Our car came to the airport, and we took the plane to reach Okinawa Island.
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We left the women to wait behind us as Uncle Ichigo and I went to the counter to book our room.
The hotel lobby was grand and spacious, with a lavish feel to it. A beautiful lady stood behind the mahogany counter and greeted us.
"Welcome, esteemed sirs," she said with a small bow.
I turned to Ichigo, whispering, "Can we only get two rooms? One for us there, and one for you three. With only one bed."
"Huh? Why?" Icigho raised an eyebrow.
"Well," I nudged my eyebrow backward to point at Ai and Ruby, who were sitting awkwardly beside each other. "I already told you the reason behind this vacation, I think if the three of us sleep together like how we used to as kids, it'll help with our goal."
Uncle Ichigo was into the plan. All of us were. Tsubasa and her family weren't sure exactly what had happened between the mother-daughter pair, but they wanted it to stop anyway and wished those two would return to how they should be.
"Mhm, seems like a plan," Ichigo agreed and slipped a card to the lady ahead. He showed a businessman-like smile. "Please, keep 150,000¥ as a tip and act along."
The receptionist blinked, before revealing a gentle smile as she smoothly took the card. "I truly apologize, sir, we have only two rooms vacant. Would that be alright?"
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So our goal was two here.
One, to mend the relationship between my mother and sister.
Two, to make it so that Ai gains access to exceptional powers even in nakedness. Or at least, with as little clothes as possible, such as in bikinis.
Surprisingly, the number one goal was a lot harder than the second. By afternoon, I was shooting pictures for her Instagram.
If things went as planned, then by evening this plan was ought to complete.
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