[3rd POV]
Time had passed on by just as it always did, since she had visited Kyoto with Serafall. And quite a bit has happened since then, both in the Underworld, and in Kyoto and its surrounding areas. Mostly due to the influence and help of Morgan.
Over that time, Morgan had continued to grow her power and wealth. Power wise, she hadn't gotten too far, as she had already reached a "Bottleneck" of sorts, with Demonic Energy that is. Her demonic energy was pretty much "Stuck" at Mid Ultimate Class, and that would be broken through time, or more easily, by getting a sacred gear strong enough to help her catapult her through the barrier.
With Touki she had massively progressed in her learning of the art. It had been eerily easy for her to learn, as if it was completely natural. Yasaka had been an excellent teacher in the art, being hundreds, if not thousands of years old would do that. Especially when considering she was one of the best in the entire world in the art, with few others being comparable.
Her Touki, from Yasaka's own admittance, was far higher than normal, to the point that it was practically exuding from her constantly now that she had unlocked and began to use it. But that, Morgan assumed, was due to her being reincarnated, or perhaps it was another effect of her boons from before reincarnation, whatever it was, she wasn't about to complain.
The girls in her peerage had also begun to learn under Yasaka, but their rates of growth was far slower than Morgan, with only two people being either on par with her, or faster. Kuroka was naturally attuned to the art, and had been learning it nearly as fast as Morgan did. While Valerie...was an absolute monster at it, as her sacred gear made it...very easy for her to learn.
Touki was, in essence, the user's life force exuded outwards, wrapping them in a sort of "Aura" that strengthened them in various ways. And when you have someone like Valerie, who has a sacred gear specializing in life forces and similar areas, it makes for a monstrous combination.
Morgan would naturally overcome her with the right sacred gear, but at the moment, she was trailing behind her adorable Vampire.
Her growth in Touki had boosted her overall power level to "High Ultimate Class". Enough to contend against someone like Kokabiel with relative ease. The man being a rather underwhelming Ultimate Class being in comparison to Yasaka or some of the others out there. Yasaka herself would have slaughtered the man with ease, as she was at the very Peak of Ultimate class.
Her growth in the Underworld had continued over the past 5 months, as her wealth began to rapidly hit an "Uptake" of sorts thanks to her potions becoming more and more commonplace. The potions were used in practically every single hospital in the Underworld, and were more commonly used than Phoenix Tears. There had been a few attempts at stealing from her, or stealing the recipe, but they were...taken care of after Serafall got word of it.
And with the potions business being under the protection of several high end families (most notably the Sitris) it wasn't long before those attempts had completely stopped. The only other family that was STILL causing problems, was of course, the Phenex family. They were the providers of what was basically the best healing product in the entire world, and Morgan was threatening their Empire.
But even they couldn't do much with the defenses, seals, and allies that Morgan had created over time. She was growing to become not only a monster in wealth and in the potions business, but also politically. As she had created a few potions that were specially made to help with some...less than kind diseases, saving the lives of several High-Class Devils, mostly the wives or daughters of distraught Lords who desperately needed aid.
Even amongst the commoners she was becoming well loved, as thanks to her taking control of so much land, she now owned her own city, one that was run by the secretary of the previous Mayor, and a trustworthy woman. And through this, she had begun to give these people more work as she began to revitalize the previously dying city, but that was slow going, so it'd take quite some time to get up to what she wanted.
Her potions being as cheap as they are, was a huge reason as to why the commoners became fond of her (or at least her business, considering her identity as the owner of the potion business was still hidden). As she sold potions that dealt with minor diseases, wounds, etc for a cheap price in comparison to what was previously on the market.
All in all, the...Mochan Potion Business was running well.
Yeah, Mochan Potion Business was its name. A bet was made with Serafall in that respect, and it ended with Morgan losing the bet, with Serafall giving her business its name "Mochan" which was also known as "Mo-Chan". Yeah, Serafall got a kick out of that one.
All this growth for her personal power and her political power, had led to another use of Fanon Maker, giving her a pretty decent reward.
[Power of Kings | Clan Trait - The Power of Kings allows the user to produce and control golden flames from any part of their body, which can be used both in melee and as a ranged form of offense, and also has the ability to slay Dragons and Dragon-related beings. Infused with divine power, the Power of Kings are extremely powerful against Angels, Fallen Angels, and Devils. The users flames are directly connected to their feelings, meaning the more emotional they get, the more powerful and warmer their flames will become, this effect is called The Flames of Emotion. An individual with full mastery of the ability can consume other types of flames. Created by HolyKnightsOfTheRoundTable]
The ability was pretty decent all things considered, but it wasn't really the best in comparison to what she could have gotten. It was an excellent new weapon against other devils, and even worked well against angels and fallen angels, which was a rarity.
Over these months, she had managed to recruit another peerage member, a rather interesting addition that she had vaguely remembered from the later volumes of the DxD novel, a novel that she had little knowledge of besides the wiki that she had read through occasionally.
A new Knight had been added to her Peerage.
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[Flashback, 2 months ago]
Sitting in her office, Morgan let out a yawn as she sipped on her coffee. She had been hoping to do some contracts today, as it had been quite some time since she had a meaningful one, the last one being a magician that she got a bit of power from.
"I'd have hoped my "Charm" that seems to have even charmed the Fates, to take effect sooner or later, but I guess I can't always have my wa-" Morgan was cut off as she felt it, the summoning beginning to take effect.
Morgan couldn't help but laugh as she was summoned away, truly beginning to wonder if her charm was quite literally affecting Fate itself, or perhaps even Lady Luck.
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Reappearing in a flash of light, Morgan took in her surroundings. She had been summoned to what seemed to be a traditional Japanese home, what city she was in, she had no idea, but she assumed it was somewhere near Kuoh or Kyoto, with how her luck was going at least.
"U-Um, H-hi?" A voice soon entered Morgan's ears as she turned. Her eyes widened slightly the second she did, as she gazed at someone she was not expecting to see, not so soon.
An incredibly attractive teen with long black hair with pink streaks traveling throughout, vibrant, practically glowing dark pink eyes, and an impressive figure (as was the norm in this universe). The teen was seemingly the same age as Issei or so, and was someone that Morgan knew.
The girl was known as Zekka Miyamoto, a character from Junior Highschool DxD, a spinoff of the mainline series, as well as a direct descendent of Musashi Miyamoto himself, and the host of a rather interesting sacred gear known as "Eden's Dual". The sacred gear in question was made up of two swords, but one of them was missing, so the girl was left with Tensei, the first sword.
The sword had a number of abilities, which involved stealing the energy of others, turning that energy into touki or high speed regeneration, and could even momentarily steal/copy the unique power of another person, such as the Power of Destruction, but in most cases she could only use it once.
The sword also had a consciousness, and a rather...interesting love of breasts, to the point that the sword quite literally refuses to steal energy from anything that wasn't a woman, and was quite literally residing in her breasts, and would shred her shirt when she pulled it from her cleavage. It was...rather in tune for a universe like this. Should she get her other blade, then it will unlock another set of unique abilities.
"Hello there, may I ask what you have summoned me for?" Morgan asked, as she stared at the short girl who was probably around 5'0 or so.
"Oh-um, the pamphlet said that I can ask for anything, right?" Zekka asked as she stared at the tall (and somewhat intimidating) woman.
"Yep! Within reason of course, us devils aren't omnipotent afterall. So what is it you ask of me?" Morgan replied with a warm smile, hoping to make the obviously nervous girl calm down.
"Please make me a normal girl!" Zekka said as she bowed.
Morgan blinked at this, remembering that the girl in front of her hated her sacred gear for it made her life...not easy. Add in her lack of ability to gain friends, and she was incredibly lonely, and quite gloomy. And if the state of the house was any indicator, it seemed that Zekka's grandmother (the person who took care of her) had died and left her all alone.
"May I ask why?"
"B-because I want to make friends like a normal girl! This-this thing in me makes that impossible!" Zekka exclaimed, she knew of the sacred gear only because of her mother, and hearing the damned thing, like right now.
"Wow she's got some huge knockers, kid! You gotta cop a feel!" The voice of Tensei echoed in Zekka's mind, which she masterfully ignored like usual.
"Hmm, I can't do that" Morgan replied as she glanced at Zekka's breasts before back to her.
The sacred gear that Zekka had was much more intricately connected with her, and was a powerful one. Had it been it's full self with both half's, it was easily a Longinus class gear that could be used to kill the Heavenly Dragons themselves.
"Why?!"
"Because you would die if I took the sacred gear from you, and as interesting as your sacred gear is, I don't want to kill someone with so much potential" Morgan replied bluntly.
"Bu-but-" "If it's friends you want, I could be your friend" Morgan cut Zekka off, stopping her from saying anything more. She felt bad for the poor girl, and was interested in helping her. Both for her sacred gear, and because she genuinely wished to help her.
"R-really?" Zekka asked wide eyed, as Morgan nodded.
"Mhmm, I've got an entire peerage of people that I'm sure would love to be your friends" Morgan replied with a shrug, not minding it. Even if the girl didn't become a member of her peerage, it didn't matter to her in this case.
"Peerage?"
"A group of people that are recruited by a High class devil and then reincarnated into a devil. In most families they are classified as servants of the devil, but in my case, they're basically my friends and "Family". This reincarnation process is done through evil pieces that take the form of chess pieces" Morgan explained as Zekka looked at her with sparkling eyes.
"If I use one of these evil pieces can I be friends with your peerage?" Zekka asked as she leaned closer to the much taller woman.
"You could, but yo-" "I'll become a member then! But as long as I get tons of friends!" Zekka cut her off, as Morgan just looked at the shorter girl, dumbfounded.
'...I keep forgetting how...ridiculous the girls of this universe are' Morgan thought with a sigh, before it slowly morphed into a grin.
'But...I ain't complaining'
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[End of Flashback]
And that is how she got her second knight, and perhaps the most talented swordsman she had ever seen in her life. Her and Lint were both absolute monsters in swordsmanship, growing rapidly as they had become quick friends, training together.
With the new addition to the peerage, Morgan had quickly made a seal for Zekka, preventing her top from being shredded every time she brought out her sacred gear. Because while the view was...very alluring, Zekka was not a fan of it, and she didn't want one of her beloved peerage members to be negatively affected like this.
The girl's power was at around the same level as Lint, making her "High" High Class, mainly because of the power of her sacred gear. The sacred gear was powerful and had practically infinite potential for growth, the only downside being the gears consciousness. Thankfully tricking it was easy, as all Zekka would have to do is put herself under an illusion to make it seem like her foes were all women (even if they weren't) allowing her to absorb their power. And now that she was a devil, she could "Evolve" the energy she absorbed from others, into demonic energy on top of high regeneration and touki.
She had already reached 250 pounds on 2x gravity for her weights and would only continue to grow stronger and stronger.
The latter of which she was already trained in thanks to her grandmother, who had passed away around a year before, leaving Zekka all by herself.
Morgan already planned on having her go to Kuoh Academy alongside Issei and Ingvild. While Valerie, Lint, and a few of the others would join once they are old enough. As most of them didn't have proper education beyond what Morgan had been teaching them.
Having gotten another member to her peerage, it was only natural that she had gotten another use of fanon maker, and this time she got quite the sacred gear.
[Grendel Buster | Sacred Gear - Grendel Buster possesses two abilities; the first is referred to as [Reinforcement]. This is a sublimation of Grendel's own immense defense and endurance into a single form. Every 10 seconds Grendel Buster's wielder can use [Reinforcement], boosting their own defense and endurance. At first the wielder is limited to using [Reinforcement] on themselves and can eventually extend that to objects held within their hands. Unlike Boosted Gear, the users of Grendel Buster are unable to transfer the built-up defensive power to others. A user's body has a limit of how many uses of [Reinforcement] it can take before they reach their physical limit. Grendel himself has stated that among his wielders, of which there have been humans, reincarnated devils, and even human hybrids; that normal humans bear the lowest physical limit.
The second ability of Grendel Buster is called [Gravity] and is the power to manipulate gravity. The user, at first, is only capable of increasing or decreasing the gravity around them; allowing the user to move faster thanks to less gravity acting on them, or remain stable in a single spot thanks to more gravity keeping them there. Further training allows the user to actually start affecting more than their own gravity. They can gain the ability to use the prior mentioned abilities on other people or objects, increasing or decreasing their own or others gravitational pull, or an extreme take; make compressed orbs of gravity one can hurl around, though this ability would require an immense amount of control over the ability. Whatever is under the user's effect of gravity, be it themselves, others, or objects, has circular black-lettered ruins surrounding it with a red glow to indicate what is under Grendel Buster's control. Created by NecroGodYami]
[The gauntlets]
The sacred gear was a welcome addition to her arsenal as it gave her a massive boost in durability, one of her weaker sides. Now it would be one of her strong suits, making her last longer than ever before in battles. The new sacred gear was also quite easy to use as well, being a great boon.
At the moment Morgan was in Kyoto, breathing heavily as she trained her body, touki covering her form as Yasaka watched at her side, eagerly taking in the sight of her glistening abs, as she had a simple pair of gym shorts and top.
"You're doing great Morgan, at this rate you'll surpass me~" Yasaka practically purred, more focused on Morgan's abs than anything else. Morgan noticed the look and just chuckled.
"It's rude to stare you know? I know I've got some impressive abs, but you could be a bit more covert about it" Morgan said amusedly as she got to her feet, using a towel to wipe down her face with a sigh.
"Hmm~ Nope~ I enjoy this show far more when I'm being open about it~ And plus, we both know you like it when I watch~" Yasaka seductively said, licking her lips as Morgan just sighed, having gotten used to the woman's seduction.
"If you like watching me so much, then why don't we go on a date?" Morgan asked after a few moments of thought. The second that question left her mouth, Yasaka blinked several times as a blush formed on her face.
"A-A date?" Yasaka stuttered like a schoolgirl.
'Ah, I forgot. Even though she teases me, she's actually pretty cute when it comes to stuff like this' Morgan thought with a smile.
"Yep! I like you, you like me, so why not go on a date and see how it goes? No point in lying to ourselves, we aren't idiots. Plus I'm like 95% sure that Kunou has noticed and has subtly been trying to get us together" Morgan replied, remembering the time when Kunou "Accidentally" bumped into Yasaka, causing her to fall over on top of Morgan.
Morgan thanked the girl with cheesecake later that day.
"Ar-Are you sure? I'm old enough to be your mother, Morgan" Yasaka replied.
"Duh, I wouldn't be asking if I wasn't interested, darling~" Morgan husked, grinning as she got Yasaka back for teasing her so much the past few months.
"...Okay, when do you want to go?" Yasaka asked after a few moments, breathing in as she calmed herself. She was old, but the way Morgan reacted to her was something she wasn't used to, as she had never been interested in someone like this before, except for Kunou's "Father" but that man was...not a good person, and left the second he found out that she was pregnant, leaving her and dying by himself a month later.
Morgan, after a few moments of thought, grinned before responding.
"How about an hour from now?"
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That's the end of the chapter!
Next chapter will be a date with Yasaka.
Zekka is a canon character from DxD, albeit not a well known one. I thought she'd be a good addition as she is unique and has a cool sacred gear with a load of potential. She is aged up to around the same age as Issei, making her a little over 18 when "canon" arrives.
Yasaka will be the first person that Morgan gets with, as you'd assume.
Unique Gamer should be getting updated later today.
Anyways, have a good day!