5- FINALLY
Time- 9+ years after Rias 's birth (unknown pov)
It's been 9 years since I have been reincarnated in this world of devils and angles and call me surprised when I found out that this world is similar to the one I read in my first life.
I am what you can say is a ex-otaku who in my chunnibyou stages actually tried to feel the mana in my first world. Believe me or not I am really not embarrassed.
Well, I was unsuccessful in finding the mana, but for some reason I actually enjoyed meditating, via meditation I have been focusing on increasing my ability to focus, well to heights which I never thought was possible.
Because of that after I died in my first life, in the next one I became a sage and funny thing was that it was a magic world, so it was fun to learn that. I have been cultivating my skill since that life, and today in my 9th life, I feel like I am just close to reach a new level.
"How unfair, the ones with potential or destined ones are easily gonna surpass me " I said while thinking that this world's protagonist can easily surpass me by just seeing a pair of boobs, sigh, and here I am.
Well, after stopping my negative thought process, I immediately went in my meditation stance , this is similar to one Shikamaru Nara uses.
After few minutes in this state, I opened my eyes and focused on the world itself, the world was turning in shades of black and white , instead of the regular colors I am familiar with. It was weird , but for some reason I was able to understand some things about mana, which previously I can't.
I don't know how many hours passed, but after I was broken of my trance, I heard a voice in my ear "Ding!, You have completed a hidden requirements , you get a chance to get a random skill from all the world's you have seen or have been " , Now this was something unexpected and welcomed.
"You have been bestowed Skill- 'The Great sage' by omniverse's will", fuck yes, life is finally going in the right direction, if getting a overpowered skill is any indication.
"You have been given a chance to evolve your current race , DO you accept ?" , I immediately replied "Yes"
Well, and I was covered with blue energy of mana , along with something else that I cannot identify.
[Permission to evolve current skills of master ?] I heard while my consciousness was fading , "yes, just do whatever you want if it benefits me", I said just before blanking out.
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I wake up from the floor, wondering if that absurd dream was reality or just my inner desire [ master, process with skills are dealt with do you want me to show the new skills and your power level in one page, like 'status' you know of], I heard a voice which was more fluent and had something else than before, "yes".
Name- Kaiya Agares
Power level- Tier 12
Skills-
Focal Domain- A domain in which your focus is in peak.
Detection- Able to detect a person's presence in your area of perception.
Raphael (Lord of Wisdom) -Its essence is managing the laws of the world, specializing in support and the alteration of Skills.
Sub-skills :-
Thought acceleration - Limit- 100 times
Analytical appraisal - Ability to know one's body composition, mana levels,etc, by sending a wave of mana in their body , in such a way that detecting it becomes hard. After some mastery , instead of need to have contact, you will be able to know anything about the target from just a glance.
Parallel Operation -Allows the user to detach their analysis of phenomena from their regular thoughts.
All of Creation - allows the user to comprehend anything as long as they have a basic understanding of it and it is perceivable to the user.
Synthesize/Separate - Allows the user to merge two things together or split things apart into more basic components.
Alteration - Ability to modify or evolve skiils
Future attack Prediction- The ability to predict attacks in the form of light trails. The terrifying properties of this skill is not its ability to predict, but that whatever it predicts is guaranteed to happen.
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Yup, I have become overpowered , "Hey, why will omniverse actually gift , you know a mortal even if they did gained some achievement " I asked
[Master, from what I have been given the information, a entity named "The Calculator" has reached levels despite being a mortal without use of outside source, after reaching that level it demanded mortals who achieve a certain level of mastery in a concept to be granted gifts.]
"I see", well at least somebody is trying to be fair, well, I guess Asta was right , Possibilities do exist, if I have given up halfway or have not started this journey , I wouldn't have gotten at this point, lol, it's funny actually more than half of my morals are from anime.
"What about the race evolution, what benefits I got ?" I asked , [Your physique or more specifically race has been created from taking good properties from races present in your bloodline, your affinity to Time magic has increased considerably, your weakness to Holy magic has been decreased considerably, however, the effect of original 7 sins were unable to be removed because they are the core of devil race.]
"NO worries, at least my potential is increased and time magic is the one of the op magic there, what is this tier system in my power level"
[Master, in this world, power levels of individuals are classified like this - low class (1-tier 10), middle class(10-20), high class(20-30), arch class(30-40), satan class(40-50), Transcedent(50-60), Super Satan(60-70) , each class makes a qualitative change in the individuals.
This classes could also be divided in tiers for precise estimation, Each tier is 10 times stronger than the previous one, eg, tier 5 individual is 10 times stronger than tier 4 individual.]
I see , I see, so I have reached middle class devil , hmm, I think this is considered achievement, well whatever, normal standards aren't able to hold me any longer, I heard a knock on my door, "Come in ", a maid came and said" Kaiya sama, you have a party to attend in half an hour , please get ready " and left.
Well, after taking a shower, I started walking towards the teleportation circle, well, from what I have observed this world is very different from the original, first of all we have the size and population, well sizes of the planets of all three realms are same, but population varies vastly, first of all , we devils have the least population, a population of 1 billion, yup that is considered less here.
Well, if one compares it to the human population, they have of 1 trillion, I really was speechless when I read that, humans really are cockroaches, angels don't have a particular number due to some becoming fallen and what not, but if considering both angels and fallen , then their numbers would be between 10 billion to 50 billion , I don't even know how devils are standing still, but knowing devils being inherently evil, it's not really surprising as we are not above dirty means to save ourselves , I mean We gotta survive you know.
Well, I got reincarnated in the branch family of House Agares and my age is same as that of Rias. Well, the next change would be Rating games, they actually are quite popular in devil realm and are treated as source of entertainment, they are even ranks in that, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. With Bronze being playing ground for Low and Middle class devils, Silver being for High class devils , Gold for Archs and Platinum for Satan-rank devils, devils above this rank don't usually fight, if they do it becomes a world level source of entertainment.
Moving on evil pieces created by Ajuka are bit different too, they do enhance the power of devils , but the feature of reincarnated devils having absolute obedience was removed , I think a century ago, due to some rebellion by a Satan rank devil.
Ajuka and current Lucifer are Super satan ranks, the other two of Great 4 are Transcendent , if Raphael is correct. I entered the hall and took one corner to lean on , well, last time such party happened , I was flocked by a lot of suitors , even being 9 years old , well devils do mature faster, but still this is weird.
My current body could be said to be beautiful and after the Race evolution, It has only intensified, it seems like my family is probably gonna use me as a chip in their political agenda. Well, most of devils do get engaged between 11 to 18 years, cause of less birth rate, actually it's not that incorrect, children of my age or near that are nearly 1000 and comparing to 1 billion of whole devil population it is very less and this also implies that most of the devils are old which is true. I actually don't know that the history of the world is same as cannon or not , maybe it might be same , just year gaps like 1000 would be increased to 10000 or more , I will check that later.
I looked around the hall trying to find some familiar faces, I saw Riser flirting with some girls , well, he is a teenager at the moment and looking at the emotion he is radiating his major sin is obvious.
Well, if my parents really got me married me to someone like him, then I am really gonna castrate him and his death will definitely be accidental yup, I got it, solution to problems.
Looking at who entered next, made me realize that their was also one more canon change , it's that guy with bathrobe.
Yup, the deadbeat twin of Rias, it's said that he is incarnation of sin of Sloth itself, looking at his face , he definitely is exerting his will to not sleep right there.
Well, I don't know what to feel about that guy, he wearing bathrobe is just insult to his house and noble status and looking at him , he probably doesn't mind, well I envy him, I thought the main houses people have to be strict and maintain some you know noble crap , but seeing him it doesn't look like he cares , probably a bad apple in that sense.
'Raph-chan can you sense the power levels of everybody else here and also find any anomalies present in their physique, store the data collected for future use' [yes, however due to less mastery of analytical appraisal , checking them with non-contact will take time], 'no worries , I have the time' I said while wondering about life.
This time, I really am gonna enjoy this life, coz this is an anime world and this world seems interesting enough.
[Scan completed], 'oh, how many are above tier 10 ' , [none], well okay I didn't actually expected much from brats, I just hoping to see somebody with nice potential, so I can kidnap them later in my peerage.
My eyes darted across the room, trying to find something interesting ,like verbal fights and all , my eyes darted on a interesting scene, a blushing Latia and the awoken bathrobe guy, ara, I didn't know that stoic Latia can actually blush , well , I enhanced my hearing, so I can hear what they are saying.
Well, Bathrobe guy really does seem to have a big dream and he does have a type of confidence that achieving it is matter of time, is it arrogance or overconfidence I don't know.
I wonder how he will achieve that while being a sloth, ' his tier ?', [It's tier 1], what even for a branch family that's low, with age tier's do increase at least untill they reach maturity or due to their physique.
'scan him again' [ok], after I said that , few moments later, that guy did a full 90 and smirked at me, eyes opened again looking at me with a emotion that I can't identify , shit , did he found out ?
[master scanning results - tier 3, tier 5, tier 2, tier 19, tier 8 , tier 52 , tier 37, unable to analyze accurately ]
Fuck!
This guy is messing with the scan, he probably can detect the mana entering his body, but instead of expelling it , he is manipulating it by using his own mana, he is dangerous.
"Ara~ Ara~ who do we have here ?" He said after reaching me, "Well, my name is Kaiya Agares , nice to meet you" I said with my poker face.
" Oh, how polite, I see, I am .... " he said not even completing his name, I guess he really is lazy, " I know you , Hiro-san" I said.
He beamed at me and said" how convenient, it really pleases me that my fame Exceeds at such times", fame my ass, it's more accurately you are infamous.
"Well, aren't you strong for your age" he said with a harmless smile, my guard was instantly notched up a few times, "Still, it's not really a good idea to try to peek other's body, you should have straight up asked , I wouldn't have minded", Wait what is he talking about [Master, I believe when I tried to check for his physique, then I have to get a blue print for his body ], wait , so doesn't that makes me technically a pervert as I can imagine it as a replacement for X ray.
Still, keeping my perverted side at bay, I still kept my poker face "Well, I just wanted to know who to look out for, seeing you it seems I was successful" I totally lied with a straight face , I hadn't expected people my age to figure out.
"Ara~ Ara~ how curious, but seeing application of such a advanced technique I should say you are knowledgeable , more like having wisdom" he said
"Speaking of wisdom, have you read that slime manga, you know the main character has a skill named- 'Raphael - Lord of wisdom', I wonder why name Raphael is related with wisdom " He said again with a harmless smile
My heart at this point was beating so loudly , that you could probably hear it from a mile away, I am fucking scared , this guy is toying with me , the worst thing is I can't even detect whether he is just honestly saying that or he is saying that he has figured me out, Still I am feeling another emotion which I haven't felt since my second life, excitement , the thrill of this situation is just too much for me to handle, I could potential die in such a way that I won't be able to reincarnate, what if they take me away for doing research and bisect me..
Seeing my emotions, he changed the subject "Well, now ,now , don't worry I won't eat you , atleast for now " fuck you , will see who will eat who
"So, you said , you are from Agares clan right?, they do have affinity to time magic, how awesome is that ?, you can increase your training time compared to other's , ability to reverse any wounds , speed up or slow up your time, to lessen your time for activities like sleep, and at ultimate level if all things go wrong in the end, just reset by going back in time " he said with a longing look ???
"Well, that is all amazing , but remember time is a fickle thing, if you completely don't understand it don't mess with things like regression or time travel, you might be in world of pain , when it is too late" he said cryptically, I didn't understand this part at all.
"Well, my offer for you is same as I gave for Latia" He said , so he knows I was eavesdropping which means I was in his radar since he entered the room.
"Also" , He leaned towards me, wait what the fuck is this situation, my emotions are going haywire, I instinctively closed my eyes.
Wait , that might give him the wrong signal, I felt a touch on my forehead , I opened my eyes , he had a finger on my forehead , I sighed in relief for a completely different reason.
" Ara~ Ara~, Were you expecting something else ?" He teasingly said, my poker face finally broke, I was fucking embarrassed at the situation and myself, and what the hell is wrong with him to use ara, ara, that only suits on Akeno.
"Well, see you next time" , he said turning around , he then turned his head at me " Oh about that gift , consider it a gift from senpai to kohai reincarnator" he winked at me and walked away.
"Holy Fuck !" I blurted out loud.