Today, after sending Asia off to school and Sirin with Sakura to terrorize the dungeon monsters in another world. Ray is left without many things to do for the majority of the morning.
Ray remembers that he had gathered quite a substantial amount of sacrifices from his diligent cult yesterday. So, he decided to do something with those that had been sitting inside his Shadow.
His primary option is to turn them into a capable fighting force since in the future, he is inspired by Artoria during the Kokabiel attack on Kuoh Academy. To be the hidden figure lurking in the shadow while manipulating the stage using his minions. It wouldn't be very entertaining if he had to take care of everything. He is simply too powerful that everything ends in an instant if he has to make the move.
So, to be the real instigator behind the scene. He will need capable actors and supporting characters props to prepare the stage for him.
The first one he pulled out from his shadow was Freya. She is a bonafide god even when her mind and soul is shattered. She is not just a goddess of beauty and fertility but also a fierce goddess of war and death.
Among his collections, Freya would be the strongest with her divinity unrestrained. Stronger than even Artoria.
Ravel who is watching him along with Abby and Artoria felt incredibly curious of this unknown woman, she couldn't help but ask.
"Who is this, Master? I don't recall ever seeing her."
"Hmn. She is the Goddess Freya from the other world. A pervert who gets turned on from looking at soul for some reason." Ray replied with an unpleasant taste in his mouth.
"But undeniably, she is strong." Ray added that Ravel and Artoria agreed because they can sense Freya's now unrestricted divinity.
Both Ravel and Artoria couldn't help but hissed silently. They wonder what their master did to the poor goddess to look like a mind broken idiot with drool leaking out her mouth. As for Abby, she is morbidly curious about what Ray is about to do. With her power, she has no difficulty to understand what was done to Freya and thinks she deserves it for daring to take a glimpse at her father's true form that not even her dare to see when she is immune to the mind breaking effect.
In the next moment, Ray picks apart Freya's soul and delicately reconstructs them. He removes unnecessary memories and implants several artificial ones before reforming her soul and shoves it back into her body which helps her eyes regain intelligence. Then he modified her head and body too. Mainly to make her feel and think only one thing, which is to serve him. After all, that is the whole reason why he is even doing this. To this new Freya, her only purpose and reason to live is to serve him. To breathe, to move and to act only to uphold his will.
Ray also fixes the problem with her divinity which originated from the Danmachi world which made it only work to its fullest in the Danmachi world. Her new power is not reliant on worldly law anymore and instead reliant on himself as her source of power.
Her old self transformed as if she was reborn anew. In a grim looking steel armor that hugs her enchanting figure and only her face partially exposed by a helmet with an open portion on the face's lower half. Even when encased in full armor, her beauty as the Goddess of Beauty is not hindered even slightly. On her hand is a black spear with an ominous glowing red gem on the spearhead that resembles the eyes and veins that spread along its metallic shaft. On the other hand is a thick shield decorated with engravings of black roses.
The reborned Freya kneeled silently on one knee, her right hand holding her spear upright and her left hand rested on her right knee as she lowered her head to bow and greet her creator.
Ray pays no mind to the respect she shows and instead is more curious how good she is.
"Artoria. Do you want to test her strength?" Ray asked which Artoria immediately accepted, not sending away any challenge given to her.
"Of course." Artoria stood up from the sofa and equipped her battle dress.
With a single thought, the living room was replaced by a coliseum and the two stood on the arena while the others on the VIP spectators viewing platform.
While watching the duel, Ray completed the rest of the transformation for the Exorcist which didn't take much time to do since they were too weak compared to Freya. The attention needed on them isn't much and multitasking is easy.
In the arena, Freya fought ferociously, using shields for defense and her spear to poke into Artoria's guard whenever there were opportunities.
"Hmn, for someone who spends their day peeping on other's souls like a pervert, her combat skill is very good… even better than Artoria it seems." Ray commented that Freya's battle technique all came from her own memories. They are not fabricated or artificially added.
But in the first round, they are competing with pure skill and physique only without relying on divinity or Noble Phantasm. This win was eventually taken by Artoria with Dragon Factor powering her strength which is not inferior to a god. However, when involving divinity, it's Freya's crushing victory especially with her domain of War which made her into an undefeatable war goddess, like a proud Valkyrie, defeating Artoria with decisive attacks.
Artoria was actually eager to fight more as her defeat served only to stir up her fighting spirit. She liked her peaceful life but she is not shy from a battle.
Ray let her test out the rest of the transformed Exorcist after the duels with Freya. However, those latter opponents stand no chance against Artoria unlike Freya.
The transformed Exorcists were good. But compared to Artoria who is worthy to become a Heroic Spirit, their skills paled in comparison.
Now, with the transformed Freya. Ray fashioned the rest of the 100 transformed Exorcists as Valkyrie in similar grim plate armor with a spear and shield. Forming the first batch of his personal army.
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