106 Aftermath

|3rd POV|

Hardius read the letter on his hand for a moment before sighing.

"What is it, dear?"

He looks at his Bishop, Liliana, who is also his third wife, before saying.

"The Celtic Pantheon officially invites Riser and his peerage to a dinner."

"Dinner? Huh. That is odd. Celtic pantheon is a reclusive people. Why do they want-Ah!"

"Shirou Emiya. They want to meet the descendants of their greatest hero."

"So do you want to agree with this invitation? I don't think it was a great idea to let Riser and his peerage go to Ireland alone."

"Of course. I don't want them to go there alone, and the Celtic gods know that it was a bad idea to invite them alone. They allow twenty people to go with them."

"I see. Who do you want to send?"

"There is one person who wants to go to Tír na nÓg."

"Only one? Are you sure, dear?"

"Aye."

"Who is it?"

"Serafall Leviathan. She really wants to establish an alliance with the Celtic Pantheon or at least a trade agreement, but the Celtic reject all of her attempts to go to Tír na nÓg. With this invitation, she is finally able to talk to the Celtic gods and try to establish some connection to the reclusive pantheon."

Serafall has tried five times to attempt to make a connection to the Celtic Pantheon since the identity of Shirou is known throughout the world, and all of them failed.

"Even then, I think you should send more people with Riser if you decide to accept the invitation."

"Of course. Who do you think I am? I will send more people to go with Riser. While he did not want to be watched twenty-four-seven, I still placed my familiar close to him just in case. While I did not send some guard to accompany him, I will know if something is happening."

Hardius knows that Riser will not like being watched all the time as it was the trait he inherited from his mother. Valerie did not like being watched and even punched her guard right in the face when she was still young.

Because of this, Hardius decides to send his familiar a demonic caterpillar that will melt into Riser's body and will alert him if Riser is in danger. With this, Hardius was not worried about his son's well-being, and Riser did not feel like being watched all the time.

"Who will you send? Should I tell the others?"

What Liliana means by the other is her fellow sister of Hardius's wives. They are Hardius wives and also his peerage members. While Hardius did not participate in the Rating Game anymore, they are still considered a powerful peerage.

One of Hardius' peerage members is Catherine de Medici. The former Queen of France.

"No. I will ask Serafall to bring her personal guard."

"Really? Isn't that a little bit overboard? Also, can you really ask her to bring her personal guard to watch over Riser?"

To become a personal guard of Satan, you need to be at least a High-class devil and pass a strict exam. They are a tough bunch that Hardius respects. There are only four hundred Satan's personal guards in the underworld. One hundred for each Satan.

"No. I don't really think it is overboard. I have a few strings I can pull to make her send her guard to watch over Riser."

Because of the Phenex Tear business, Hardius has a few favors that he can take from high-ranking people, including Serafall.

While Hardius writes a letter for the Celtic Pantheon, Riser is currently helping Rin with her experiment.

"So, what should I do?"

"Here. You see this formula?"

"Yup."

"I want you to push a little bit of your demonic energy inside this formula. Do it slowly and make sure your demonic energy does not spread out of this formula."

"Roger"

It has been three days since the Rating Game is over, and Riser decided to lay low for the time being. Many devils come to him to either want to trade their Evil Piece with him or want him to be the face of their brand.

He successfully dodges all of them by getting out of the underworld and letting his father deal with it.

Not only that, but he also gets many people who want service from him and his peerage. Many of them are coming from Europe, but there are also many contracts coming from Japan.

"Riser. That's enough"

Riser snaps from his thoughts and stops giving the gem in front of him his demonic power. He looked at the gem and saw that it was glowing with power.

"Rin, what kind of gem do you want to make?"

"I want to recreate the Zelretch jewel sword. While I cannot access the energy of a Kaleidoscope, I can access demonic energy."

"Why don't you use yours?"

"I don't have unique demonic energy like yours. Not only that, the quality of your demonic energy is too different from mine. For one, your demonic energy is thicker than all of us, and your demonic energy is purer. I guess there is a reason why a noble devil is always placed in the High-class devil."

What Rin is saying is not really far off from the truth. Every noble-born devil has a big demonic energy reserve, and that energy is purer than an ordinary devil. This is the reason why they can be considered a high-class devil.

However, not all noble-born devils have this kind of reserve.

"I see. Anyway, do you need any more help?"

"Nothing at the moment. I can ask Shirou to help me make the dagger sketch."

"Very well. If you need anything, tell me."

"Of course."

Riser then gets out of the basement and sits down on the couch in the living room. The annual Rating Game tournament has finished, and the winner of the tournament is Diehauser Belial, just like last year.

He earned the title of Emperor as he is the undefeated devil in the Rating Game, and he does it without the help of King Piece like the others. The first six ranks of the Rating Game didn't really change. It is still the same as last year.

The other rank, on the other hand, changes every year. Ruval Phenex rose from the 12th rank to 10th place. There is already news saying that Riser will follow Ruval's path as a high-ranking Rating Game when he is older.

Riser is currently thinking about copying his brother's technique. One of Ruval's techniques is how he turns his body into pure flame. It was as if he was eating a Logia Devil Fruit. The only weakness of this technique is water or ice. Even then, it needs a powerful Ice or Water magic to weaken Ruval.

This makes him an annoying opponent to face. Combined with this technique and the immortality bloodline of Phenex, he becomes even harder to defeat.

Ruval can get to 8th or maybe 7th place in the tournament, but sadly he meets Diehauser, where the Emperor can make his technique and bloodline useless.

"Hmmm, Ruval said it was a combination of his mastery of the Wind and Fire element. He changed his body into a gas form because of his mastery over the wind element and can still produce fire even when in this form. Hell, in this form, his fire is even more dangerous as his form feeds the fire with oxygen."

Riser shook his head for a moment and decided to focus on his current training first. He almost awakened his Touki. He can feel a new energy start to appear from inside his body.

"I also need to gather more points to buy that Holy resistance perk."

Riser nods his head and decides to gather more points to get that holy resistance perk first, then train his body to awaken his Touki. He takes his phone and opens a portal to the company hub.