In the villa inside the seemingly endless white space of the time chamber, Zeno could be seen sitting on the Invincible II in his study as he looked through the large window to a group of Geborgs cultivating Touki diligently outside.
Some of the Geborgs already have Touki, equal to that of a mid-class devil's demonic energy, after one year of cultivation inside the time chamber. He wonders if they can breakthrough to the ultimate-class level after ten years inside the time chamber.
"They might even start thinking about freedom and democracy when they become ultimate-class at this rate."
Zeno chuckles with amusement at the thought of Geborgs going on strike and demanding a fair wage for their hard work. Fortunately, he doesn't have to worry about that, as the Geborgs are incapable of becoming disobedient since they are designed to be servants to him by code and soul, so serving him is their only purpose for their existence.
Zeno then turned his head from the outside villa to his HMT on the desk as he picked it up to look at the HMT's screens that are displaying the reports that Ruth sent to him for a review after she looked through the relevant information and analyzed it for him.
She seems to be focusing on exploring Kuoh Town on both the mundane and supernatural sides as she analyzes the information that the spy drones and the AI keep sending her way while creating simple profiles of the individuals of interest that reside in this town.
She also reported to him that the spy drones that she has released in the town are now covering 25% of Kuoh without anyone noticing. Zeno smirked with a pleased expression after reading the report.
When the spy drones have covered the entire area of Kuoh, Zeno will finally be about to kiss the daily patrol around town goodbye and just relax on his couch while looking around Kuoh through the HMT screen instead of spending time flying around Kuoh.
"Oh right! Isn't today the day for the gacha roll?"
Zeno exclaimed as he put the HMT back on the desk after going through all of Ruth's reports. He suddenly remembered about the weekly gacha, and today is the day, so he decided to roll it now.
Zeno was quite excited for what he would get this time. He hoped that it was some overpowered power or just something that he could use to strengthen his faction.
"System, do it."
[ Rolling... ]
[ Congratulations! ]
[ You got the Time-Turner! ]
"Oh? A Time-Turner from the Harry Potter universe?"
Intrigued, Zeno immediately put out the Time-Turner from System Inventory as a golden necklace with a pendant that has a miniature hourglass in it suddenly materialized in his hand.
The Time-Turner is a magical device that is capable of sending the user back in time in the Harry Potter universe. This Time-Turner in Zeno's hand is a ministry of magic issued with an Hour-Reversal Charm placed on it, so the user can only stay in the past for five hours; otherwise, the user's safety and the timeline might be damaged.
"This will be useful, but first..."
Zeno can think of a way to exploit this for a couple of things, but the time restriction and the risk of messing up his own timeline have to be eliminated first, and he has a way to do both with Godblood.
Zeno then began to enhance and modify the Time-Turner as he got rid of all the time limitations and changed the Time-Turner to send the user to another timeline instead of the user's own timeline to avoid the risk of the butterfly effect. The cost of the energy Zeno had to provide for the improvement is two-thirds of his Touki energy, which is quite a lot considering he has a reserve comparable to that of a peak Satan-class devil's demonic energy.
"Now, that's what I call an upgrade."
Zeno smirked as he observed the golden necklace Time-Turner that had transformed into a black digital stopwatch Time-Turner in his hand. He decided to change its appearance to become more modern just so he wouldn't have to turn the hourglass around lamely to travel through time. Button smashing through time is obviously superior, in his opinion.
Zeno then throws the Time-Turner up and down on his hand as he starts thinking about what he will do when he goes back in time to the past of another timeline. He is also curious if he could meet himself in another timeline; will he be the same as him, a man named Noah Klaus who transmigrated in the DXD universe as a soul and ended up taking over the original Zeno's body?
The thought of doing the Spider-Men pointing at each other meme with another Zeno was quite amusing to him. He is confident that his counterpart will also feel the same.
"Let's go and find out."
Zeno nodded his head as he stood up from Invincible II before he moved out of the time chamber to the surface of his underground base to try out the Time-Turner.
÷×÷×÷
The morning In the air above the underground base, Zeno is floating in the US suit as his red cloak flutters in the wind. In his hand is the Time-Turner ready for use. He looked down at the digital stopwatch in his right hand to figure out how to use it before he figured it out a few seconds later and pushed at the little buttons on the sides of the Time-Turner as he set up the date for his time travel.
"Here we go..."
He set the date to a week ago, and then he pushed the red button on the upper corner of the Time-Turner with great anticipation.
Suddenly, the time seems to stop to stand still as a bunch of magic circles materialize around him before his surroundings start to glitch out for a while before his surroundings start to return to normal as the clouds and the sky begin to rapidly move backward and forward. This reminds Zeno of the game's mechanic when the player waits as time speeds up but backward.
Then his surroundings return to normal, as time seems to have resumed as usual and the magic circles fade away.
"Huh, cool..."
Zeno muttered before descending from the sky to the ground in the forest below. He crushed dried leaves under his feet as he landed among the trees that were surrounding him.
"Wait..."
He looked around with confusion as the place was still filled with trees and bushes. No road or the entrance to his underground base; there's not even a trance of Touki that should be under the ground.
"Did I, from this timeline, not build the base here?"
Zeno said with a perplexed expression as he used the detection spell to scan the area without detecting anything; he even used Godblood to scan the area with no result.
"Oh well, for now, let's find myself in Kuoh; he should at least still be living there, right?"
Zeno shrugged his shoulders as he levitated up to the sky and turned invisible before flying to Kuoh at a great speed.
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"Well, I should have expected this kind of thing..."
Zeno muttered while being invisible as he peeked at the Zeno of this timeline sitting in his old apartment, drawing a picture on his computer through the window outside of the apartment building.
When Zeno arrived at Kuoh, he immediately headed to his apartment, but he found unknown people living there instead of him and the girls in this timeline. Zeno was bewildered at first and then immediately had an idea of why a few moments later. And after he found Zeno of this timeline still living in his old apartment without a muscular physique, he now confirmed that no other soul of Noah Klaus has taken over Zeno's body in this timeline.
"My transmigration into the DXD universe seems not to be a common event, huh?"
Zeno muttered with disappointment as he wondered if he was a singular existence. Zeno then flew away, leaving Zeno of this timeline unmolested.
"Now then, what should I do here...?"
Zeno is thinking as he flies in the air above the town. No one knows him in this timeline, and he can pretty much make a big move without any future consequences that might happen later.
"Let's just go find some girls to clone before going back then."
He decided, stopping in mid-air as he turned his head in the direction of Kuoh Academy before he flew towards it.
÷×÷×÷
In the timeline of the transmigrator Zeno, above the underground base, after Zeno used the Time-Turner and disappeared for a second, he then reappeared in mid-air again like nothing happened with a magic circles around him. No one would have imagined that he had just time-traveled to another timeline.
"Home, sweet home..."
Zeno said with relief after he looked down at the distinctive clearing in the middle of the forest with a dirt road leading out to the highway in the distance to confirm that he was really on the right timeline.
Zeno has come back after cloning every girl he is interested in in Kuoh Town in the timeline he visited. He has cloned Sona, Tsubaki, female members of the Sona peerage, Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Aika, and Kiyome successfully without Azazel, who is currently a teacher at Kuoh Academy or the Siscon Satans, being able to notice.
The process of doing all that was quite troublesome and time-consuming, as he had to spread the Godblood to mind-control his targets to ignore him touching them for an hour straight while being invisible and staying near them. He had to spend an extra day in that timeline just to be able to clone all of them.
Zeno then descending from the sky as he landed on the ground softly. He is quite missing his girls right now after not seeing them for a day.
"I will play with Ezrah and Zestia first in the bathroom and then I will have fun with the other girls in my bedroom all day today..."
He murmured as he walked to the entrance down to his underground base.
Zeno's decision today will trouble his spy master quite a bit, as she will have to change her panties a couple of times while voyeuring on him.
"So lewd..."