ChApTeR 8.
{SYSTEM ON BOARD}
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[POV: Edith Hendrix]
Taking Oliver to the Grigori Institute, I asked Azazel to see what was happening to him.
Azazel asked me to follow him to the medical division, where I saw a capsule filled with greenish golden liquid, I could feel pure magic power radiating from the fluid.
For a moment I thought that Azahel wanted to study my Oliver, I changed into my battle stance and was about to materialize my Longinus.
"This is a capsule for body and mental conditioning, it stimulates the bloodline of any being and causes the one kept inside to adapt to it and increase their strength. This capsule also has the purpose of removing impurities from the body if there are any." He said.
Azazel also stated that the time of conditioning a person might vary from one person to other.
I stripped Oliver of his clothes and Azazel mentioned and laid him in the capsule.
I feel my heart trembling, I just want to be together with Oliver, although wakening of his abilities is good, did it have to be this way?
Azazel asked me to leave as it will be taking time till the whole process is done.
I could have resisted him, but it was the first time he spoke to me in such a commanding way.
Reluctantly, watching Oliver inside the capsule, I step out of the facility and head toward the training room.
The world in front of me felt bland without any color, I have to be strong for Oliver. He'll make fun of me for having a weak side.
I back to Britain airport, probably to board the flight to Los Angeles.
The world runs just as it is even if one is helpless.
Sometimes, weakness makes people stronger.
I understood that I had to get stronger and had to increase our influence.
Setting my new parameters, I started to work more and more.
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Six months later, Azazel stated that the first round of the fluid had been replaced.
I learned that this single capsule of fluid consists of the magical essence of the devils & angels combined, and Azazel harvested them from the battlefield during the biblical war.
Even more, it seems that Azazel wanted to talk to me about something, that involves both of us.
Although I could guess the reason a bit, since His and my magical signatures were similar, I asked him to stay put to these matters until Oliver awoke.
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Another six months passed and there was still there's no reaction from Oliver except for the fact that another change in the fluid in the capsule.
During this year, I had almost Implemented most of Olivers' ideas and even reorganized the mafia into a security service company.
I put up a clothing company under the Morningstar group.
I also started to invest in real estate almost all over the world, mainly in the lands near supernatural entrances or just within them.
Slowly I developed a habit of reading manga and the novels that exist in the current market, although most of them were male-oriented, with harem and lewd stuff. Gradually I started to see harem as nothing more than an increase in the members of a family.
If Oliver wants one, I wouldn't object to him, but imagining him being surrounded by different women other than me made my stomach burn.
Being 31 years old, I fell in love with a kid even younger than half my age, but this is common in the supernatural world.
Also, I systematically increased my combat power.
Making myself proficient in space, shadow, and healing magic along with mastering martial arts with the spear.
Making up my thoughts I thought of asking Azazel how to achieve a balance breaker, but he told me that it happens when the host is able to communicate with the soul existing inside the Longinus, but it's difficult to achieve that state.
On his advice, I started to meditate deeply to communicate with my gear, although I could perceive a unique existence inside, I couldn't get in touch with it, I probably know the reason.
It's because regrets that accumulate on one tend to become shackles and until I cannot break these shackles, I won't be able to communicate with the entity inside the Longinus.
And this regret of mine is not being able to spend more time with Oliver. If I had more knowledge I could have taken care of Oliver by myself, If I had more Influence I could have spent more time with Oliver by putting off the work aside.
I think I should wait till Oliver awakes before I can achieve my balance breaker.
Putting my feelings aside, I have gained a name as the 'Black Rose' in the supernatural world.
To vent my frustrations, I have done a few missions commissioned through Grigori, such as saving a bunch of kittens from the underworld, negotiating with small factions and etc.
I have also started to gain financial influence in the supernatural world, that is, the entertainment, the internet, and the clothing industries under the Morningstar Inc have gained a solid foothold mainly around the places of Asgard, Grigori, and the underworld.
I hadn't reached a deal with the church as they avoided me like a plague mainly due to the exorcists, I think it might be due to the reason that my magical signature is almost the same as Azazel, in other words, I am also a Fallen Angel.
But the exorcists also had quite a notable members among them, and around three people were more powerful than me. Namely, Vasco Strada, Griselda Quarta, and Dulio Gesualdo, from what I heard that among them any two were to be reincarnated as angels.
I mean the angels also found a way the same as the devils to reincarnate other races into angels, under the system named, 'Brave Saints'.
Also during this time, I was approached by devils to be reincarnated into them, but I declined them. As I learned that Oliver was also a devil, I have always compared other devils with him subconsciously and I find the other devils disgusting.
But that doesn't mean that I'll be willing to be reincarnated by Oliver either, it is just that my Longinus is prideful and I don't like to work under someone, it might be different if Oliver is much stronger than me and who knows what situations we'd face in the future.
I had also made a lot of friends with various pantheons, which became somewhat connected to two of them and surprisingly both of them had silver hair, they come from Asgard and Underworld respectively.
Just as I was about to go to our small get-together, I heard my mobile ringing.
I picked it up after watching the caller ID, "What's the matter, Azazel?"
And what he replied left me stunned. I cut off the call and teleported directly to Grigori.