3 - To Human World

Its been 5 years ever since Riser was reborn into this world.

After coming out of that cocoon 4 years ago, his family knew, he was extraordinary. After all they themselves saw how fast he was learning new things everyday.

Few days later after he came out of the cocoon, Riser did a through check about his own conditions because of some odd situation and he was curious about his own abilities.

After completely merging with Sephiroth Graal and undergoing corresponding evolution, Riser could easily inspect his on body and soul, its changes, additional abilities etc..

That is why earlier when he checked in a hurry, he found out that he have power of regeneration, immortality, purification, healing, resurrection and reincarnation from Phoenix part of his bloodline, ability to use both demonic and holy powers.

This time what he mainly wanted to find out was information about his ability to adapt and evolve.

But hey, what a surprise, that is not the end of it when he inspected himself thoroughly.

It is indeed true that he have ability to adapt and evolve, though it is not an instantaneous process, but definitely he have the capacity to adapt and evolve under external stimuli.

He could even develop abilities to counteract or overcome the external stimuli If he have intense desire for it.

Apart from this he have the ability to assimilate and evolve, this is why he was able to cope with the side effects of Sephiroth Graal and even completely assimilate and merge it into himself.

This power to assimilate and evolve is not only related to soul artifacts like Sacred Gears, but also power of bloodlines or genetic makeup.

This means he might be able to assimilate powers and bloodlines of Angels, Fallen Angels, Gods, Humans and any races out there.

Just by this, Riser knows, if he plans properly he might become a bug like existence in this world full of supernatural beings.

Everyone knows Devils are sinful creatures that can tempt even the devout believer of faith to become a sinner and lust is one of the deadly sin that are associated with Devils.

Riser found out he have such close relationship with sin of lust.

From the reactions of many opposite sex, especially the maids in the castle, he found out his body emits slight sweet and pleasant smell like its pheromone,

He have some kind of charm like powers and can induce desire, pleasure and lust in others like an Incubus from the expression of few of the maids who were accidentally exposed to it,

He have no idea what it would be like when he grows up if he really have such abilities of an Incubus because he himself do now really understand those kind of emotions after he lost most of his emotions and memories of previous life, he could only make a logical conclusion based on information he knows about it.

Luckily he found this out earlier on the very first few days and controlled it perfectly, otherwise who knows what might happen if this kind of abilities are active without his own knowledge and control.

He can imagine that people, especially opposite sex might actively try to fight for his attention wherever he goes.

Having this kind of abilities he have no problem with it, its just he is still a child and don't want to be troubled by overly enthusiastic group of women who wanted to have a piece of him.

After all his current appearance is very adorable and very cute.

During these past 4 years Riser was absolutely prohibited from going out of the castle for no proper reason, so his actions were very limited.

He could only request his parents or servants to get him whatever he needed.

Its not that there is only his father, mother and two elder brothers in Phenex family. There are many relatives from both Main and Branch families spread across underworld , especially the Phenex territory.

The castle in the capital city of Phenex territory in Underworld is always residence of his family, which is the head family of Phenex clan.

Riser mostly spend his time learning all kinds of magic and magic theories, histories, politics, technologies etc.. he can get his hands on through various channels of the Phenex family in Underworld, Human world and other domains.

Other than that he spend most of the time in a laboratory he created for himself. Or spend time at his mother's office room reading books Or spend time with the maids playing some games or watch the guards and servants training or something like that.

He was never allowed to train with guards and was always trained by his father secretly. After all his parents are preventing others from knowing about his peculiarity before he is strong enough to face most of the things himself.

His family have never treated him like a child from the beginning. Even if he was like a clueless baby at that time, soon he started showing a demeanor and common sense of an educated adult after few months of learning about everything he could get his hands.

So whenever he is dealing with serious things and his own business, his parents have provided him whatever he have requested even if it is something weird..

Also the fact that he could easily view the life, their memories and thoughts of everyone in their huge city let him understand about the Underworld and its common sense faster than anyone.

Well there are times he acts like baby when he is relaxing with family.

Raymond Phenex is the name of Lord Phenex and Ariana Phenex that is the name of Lady Phenex

During these four years, Riser have never stopped improving his spiritual power by exercising it with the power he got from Sephiroth Graal.

Sephiroth Graal was a bug like artifact which can connect to root of principles of life, death, souls and many other things.

After completely merging with it he could connect to root of these principles whenever he want and learn about them.

For now he have been mainly focusing on principles of souls only after that did he look at principles of life and death. over these four years he have learned many things about souls, life and death and can be considered a master in these areas.

The only problem is that getting information about these principles from its root is like countless teachers teaching their subject at the same time, also many times the information repeats itself, so he have to focus and filter it out,

For this he needed very powerful spiritual power and will power to focus on what he wanted.

Since Riser had already known that he not only have the ability to evolve under external stimuli but also that he can evolve through assimilation he confirmed a part of it by trying to assimilate and evolve with the organic biomass of one of the 72 pillars he got with the help of family.

At first it was just his speculation, he just guessed he might have gotten holy powers and ability use holy fire because Sephiroth Graal might have really contained the blood of Christ like in the myth.

After all he found his genetic makeup is have some similarity to hybrid devils born between pure blood devil and human.

Even by checking with his abilities he got from Sephiroth Graal, the results are the same.

From that moment on he knew what he needed to do in future.

Riser knew that the mother of all devils is still sealed and alive from the memory of his previous life.

So he made up his mind that he would use Lilith for his own evolution as she is the Origin of Devils.

He also wants to get origin of Human race, that is the genetics of either Adam or Eve, who knows where it is and the origin of Angels, which could be archangels or the Biblical God himself and genetic make up of other gods and races out there.

Up until now he had no way to look for others because he could never leave his castle. But he could easily search for Lilith in underworld.

With his ability to search and track souls, he found the location of Lilith, but he have no confidence in taking her away without anyone knowing about it for now. So he just determined the location for now and planned for rest of the things he needed to prepare.

Now he is strong enough to travel on his own. For the last four years he have been practicing and mastering all kinds of magic, especially fire and wind magic which is naturally his family trait.

Also for the last two years he have been practicing hand to hand combat, sword, spear, few other weapons, Riser right now is by no means weak.

This was his agreement with his parents, he will not be allowed to go out unless he is strong enough.

They also know, sometimes heaven defying talent also brings misfortune if not careful.

"Albert, is everything ready for our journey to Human world?"

"Yes, Riser-sama, we have prepared everything that you have requested."

"Mmm. good, thank you Albert."

Albert is the butler assigned to him, many of his requests are fulfilled by him.

There are total of 21 personal servants assigned to him and Albert is the only male.

20 of them are all young devil girls working as maids in the castle.

Earlier it was 10 males and 10 female servants, but things ended up like this because Riser always had an weird and awkward expression when men took care of him.

Seeing this both Lord Phenex and Lady Phenex used to laugh at his behavior.

So it was changed with only keeping Albert who was like a grandfather to him and rest of them are all young beautiful maids.

Riser have already seen through his father's thoughts, they are all virgin devil girls selected to take care of him in every ways when he grows up.

This kind of thing is common in Devil's community especially in noble houses.

Though he have no proper understanding about those things and have no thought about it for now, Riser is sure that these girls will forever stick together with him especially because they are slowly being affected by his incubus like nature for the last few years.

Even if he control it, due to that nature of his, females who have goodwill towards him will always be attracted towards him and want to stay together with him.

Everyone in this castle highly respects the 5 year old Riser, especially the servants. Not just because he is very talented and intelligent, but because Riser have helped them in many ways and earned their respect.

Even if he is the master of the castle, there are countless times he have come to help the servants of the house willingly.

Sometimes he teaches them magic that are very helpful for their work. He called these kind of magic Auxiliary magic or Support magic. He also teaches them attack and defensive magic whenever he is free.

Not everyone have the qualification to learn magic in those academies, even though everyone could use it,

Their quantity and quality of their demonic power, their birth etc.. are what usually determines the qualification to learn magic at these places.

Most of them uses the commonly available magic.

Thus the act of teaching all his servants magic within their capacity is not only appreciated by both Lord and Lady Phenex. But also the servants are very grateful for it.

Because of all of these, Riser is very much popular among the servants. Especially the maids of the castle.

After all he is very cute and adorable right now and his natural charm because of his Incubus like abilities are very high attracting opposite sex. And Riser does not dislike the feeling of getting pampered by many beautiful maids.

Though this is the case, his contact with Guards of the castle are much less than the servants because he was strictly prohibited from doing so until recently.

Riser also don't have that much contact with both father's and mother's peerage members because they are most of the time away helping managing many regions of the territory.

Earlier there were many spies in the castle, they were all pointed out to Lord Phenex by Riser. This is the reason why he was not allowed to go out of the castle for atleast until he was strong enough.

Everything might look like they are holding back Riser from his freedom, but he never felt like it, he only felt like that they are very overprotective and doing unnecessary things.

This time he is going to human world for Sacred Gear hunting and to collect genetic samples of humans and other races that have very high potential.

Since he can assimilate abilities of Sephiroth Graal, he can absorb or replicate powers of other Sacred Gear. So he is going to find opportunities to take few of the ones he is interested in from their current owners.

Riser have already borrowed 'Gravity Jail' from Liban Crocell and replicated the power of Gravity.

Yes, replicated, not absorb it completely, he don't want to take away these kind of things from everyone just like that.

Riser is only thinking about taking away Annihilation Maker, Night Reflection, Dimension Lost, Innovate Clear, Dreamlike Curse permanently from its real owners, this will indirectly weaken the idiotic Hero Faction that might be formed in the future and he could avoid many troubles caused by their recklessness.

"My little Riser, are you really going to the Human world this time?" (Lady Phenex)

Riser heard his mother's sour voice from behind.

"Ahh. Mother" (Riser)

Riser might be tough and steady when talking with everyone, but when it comes to his mother he becomes a baby.

He trotted directly in the direction of Ariana Phenex, his mother and hugged her.

"Yes, mother, this time I have to go out, and explore the world, I can't always stay in this castle and become a slothful person can I?" (Riser)

"Haha.. Yeah, you should not be a slothful person, but you are still so young, and I wish you won't go out so soon" (Lady Phenex)

Ariana said with a reluctant and aggrieved tone. She really don't want her youngest son to go out so early in his life.

"I know mother don't want me to go out, but to have a better future, I need to do everything I can mother. I promise you I won't do anything too dangerous" (Riser)

"*Sigh*, it looks like I can't persuade you, well I have tried many times." (Lady Phenex)

"How is little Ravel, is she sleeping right now?"

Riser tried to quickly change the topic. Having a doting mother is great, but sometimes it brings difficulties.

That's right, Ravel Phenex was born not long ago.

She have the tendency to cry whenever she won't find the presence of mother or Riser.

His brothers Ruval Phenex and Ryan Phenex have long gone to attend the academy for pure blooded devils in Lilith city.

This is not the only major thing in his life, he is now engaged with Rias Gremory and Kuisha Abaddon.

Kuisha Abaddon was born three years ago while, Rias Gremory was born two years ago.

Riser didn't know when it was arranged, But when his family arranged a banquet to celebrate the birth of Ravel Phenex his younger sister, he was informed of his engagement with both of them which kind of dumfounded him for this sudden news.

He have met with all of the next generation of devils in many of the banquets that he have attended.

All of them are brats, the ones he have most troubles with are girls.

Especially Rias Gremory, who is very lively and is like his tail following him everywhere while causing troubles.

Riser always have a headache while chasing after this girl preventing her from causing troubles, luckily Kushia and Sona are more clam and obedient type of girls, while Seekvaira is silent type.

Riser knew that Rias was engaged to him to be candidate for main wife because her status will be higher than that of Kuisha in future.

And his marriage with Abaddon clan would most likely be a political marriage because they are willing to let Kuisha to be a concubine.

"Yes, otherwise Ravel would have started crying" (Lady Phenex)

Ariana answered with a sigh, her daughter is very stubborn in nature, whenever she is awake she needs her or Riser's presence near her or she will cry out loud.

"Mmm.. that's good" (Riser)

"So when are you leaving?" (Lady Phenex)

"Everything is ready, After father is free from his work and inform him about my departure, I am ready to leave" (Riser)

Hearing this Ariana was feeling sad. She pulled Riser into her embrace and sat on the nearby couch without talking about anything. Riser understanding her emotions right now just stayed like that.

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That night after Riser left for human world, a lot of personnel from the shadow legion trained by Phenex family were secretly send to human world to protect their youngest son by both overprotective parents.

Ariana Phenex was like a terrifying queen ordering them around, giving every kind of instruction to keep her baby boy safe in human world.

The shadow legion knows that if something terrible happened to Riser in human world because of their negligence, all of them will face the wrath of this lady infront of them.

On the other side, Raymond Phenex was also arranging people to protect Riser during his stay in human world.

If Riser sees his parents right now, he would be surprised at their current demeanor.