2 Chapter 1 - Beginning

A small boy sat quietly in a huge library and read a book until he was distracted by a maid who entered the room.

"Young master, is it time for you to have lunch, should I bring you lunch here or will you have lunch in your room?" - she said.

"Perhaps I'll dine here today, Annette," the boy answered her, looking at her with his ruby ​​eyes.

"As you command, young master, I will have your dinner delivered here at once," the maid said before leaving, leaving the boy alone.

As you can see, that boy was me. My rebirth was successful and I have been in this world for 6 years. With my family, I was lucky and unlucky at the same time. I moved into a boy named Daniel Darkness, the son of the head of an old family of dark magicians who were also descendants of the hero Gilles de Ré. The founder of our family was the illegitimate son of Gilles de Ré, who stole his father's entire magical library before his death. Since then, our family has completely immersed itself in dark magic and has achieved great heights in it. Only about 15 years ago, our family fell from its pedestal into the abyss. The then head of the family and my grandfather crossed the path of the head of the Magical Council and several influential members of the church. As a result, our family was expelled from the Magic Council and began to be persecuted by the churchmen. When my sister and I were born, my sister was recognized as a genius, while on the contrary, I was recognized as useless. Such titles were given to us due to the fact that my sister from birth possessed not only a large reserve of magical energy, but also a sacred mechanism, while I, on the contrary, had a very small reserve of energy and was almost an ordinary person. As for my abilities, I figured out a little about the system in 6 years. The system itself looked like a blue plate floating in front of my eyes.

Also over the years, I often thought about what my "boss" said to me before sending me here. And if at first I resented this set-up, then I began to understand that it was not so bad. In fact, everyone who survived from my parallel versions rose and became gods. And what is the probability for an ordinary person to become a god, even having a strong ability - in fact, not even zero, but negative. And there were as many as 73 successful cases, which is not a little. Although you can't call it a large number, so the main thing now is not to relax and not to get into adventures with a rapid increase in strength. Still, in this world, I can get a huge life span for an ordinary person by absorbing not the most powerful monster. And there are enough of those.

And I know quite a lot about the world itself. Until about the age of 5, I thought that this was an ordinary techno-magical world, until I got access to the library. War of three factions, sacred gears, a bunch of divine pantheons, dragons and much more. All this turned out to be very familiar to me, and after checking a couple more facts from the history of the world, I realized that I was in anime. And not a simple anime, but an ecchi harem with a preoccupied main character. World DxD. Pretty popular title. I remember how much time I spent looking through the wiki of all the characters, and even remembered something.

In addition, I even managed to use my passive ability a few times. It all started when I was 6 years old. In fact, the father decided to take his useless son to show how real dark magicians work. In the end, we ran into vampires and my father, along with a couple of our guards, dealt with all but one. They interrogated the latter and, depriving him of limbs, let me finish him off. Then my father told me that since I could not become a good dark magician, then I would do all the dirty work for my sister. Yes, Family Head Darkness might seem like a disgusting father, but he was only like that towards me. For my sister, he was the perfect father. Yes, double standards.

So, when I killed that vampire, my characteristics increased several times. In fact, when I first appeared in this world, my stats were 1 each. But after killing a vampire, they instantly jumped to double digits. Although at first I was delighted, but then I realized that I was not so cool. The characteristics of an ordinary adult were about 10 body and mind, and 1-2 souls. The average magicians had about 20 body and 100 mind and soul.

After that, the radius of my passive ability increased enough, and I began to hang around quite often near our tortured family. I myself had to work in this torture chamber, only my father said that they would begin to fully train me only at the age of 12.

Now I was only eight, and I spend quite a lot of time in the library. In fact, I usually either sit in the library and read books, or walk next to the torture chamber and strengthen myself a little.

But every time it seems to me more and more that my strength is too little. From the conversations of the servants, I realized that the churchmen intensified the search for our family, due to the fact that the father is too impudent and kidnaps literally dozens of people.

Breaking my thoughts, I looked at the book and, sighing, said softly:

- Status.

After my words, a blue plate appeared right in front of my face, which contained my characteristics.

Name: Daniel Darkness

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Mana: 1250/1250/52 per hour

Prana: 5680/5680/284 per hour

Mental energy: 1640/1640/82 per hour

Soul Energy: 820/820/42 per hour

Demonic Energy: 0/0/0

Divine Energy: 0/0/0

Elemental Energy: 0/0/0

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Body: 142

Intelligence: 41

Soul: 21

Yes, my status proves not only my strength, but also the fact that my father really played too much. How many people has he already let down for his experiments? Definitely not less than a few hundred.

And as if echoing my thoughts, a guard ran into the library and shouted:

"Young master, the mansion is under attack. Your father calls you to his office, hurry up, the barrier will last no more than an hour.

I got up and, without saying anything, ran out of the library. The guard was obviously surprised by my physical data and the fact that he could not catch up with me.

In case our estate was attacked by the churchmen, I already had a plan prepared. Where did I get that these are churchmen? It just can't be anyone else.

So, I had a plan. And the main obstacle to this plan was my father. Therefore, I will need to end his life. In direct combat, I have no chance against him, but with a surprise attack, I can kill him. You just need to get closer.

And now I finally see the right door. My father's office. All or nothing. Now my fate is decided.

- Father! I yelled as I ran into the office.

Like a frightened little boy, I immediately ran towards my father. He seemed to be expecting this, and wasn't surprised when I clung to his leg.

- Useless crybaby. Stop whining and listen to me. Now you will have to take your sister out through a secret passage and go ... ha ha, what have you done, small ... ha, - my father began to order me with contempt, as always, when he suddenly felt a child's hand in his lungs. Coughing up blood, he was about to attack me with dark magic, but my hand squeezing his heart prevented him from doing so.

At the moment I felt euphoria and great happiness. And not from the fact that I killed my father, no, I felt it because of my first full soul absorption. After a couple of minutes, I calmed down and suppressed these feelings. Now is not the time for that. I have to focus on my goal.

Running out of the office, I ran at full speed to my sister's room. Opening the door abruptly, I saw my sister calmly reading a book.

- There is no time to explain, my father is dead, and our house is being stormed by churchmen. We must quickly do what my father ordered me before his death, - I said, and, grabbing my sister, I ran on.

But I didn't run towards the secret passage, but towards the torture chamber. The secret passage is likely to be discovered and I understood this for a long time. That's why I came up with my plan. He is indecently simple. My sister and I will simply go to the torture chamber and pretend to be the children of the maid whom my father decided to kill in a fit of madness. The churchmen will most likely save the "poor kids" and send us to some church orphanage.

- Daniel, why did we come here? my sister asked when we finally got to the torture room. Well, not really torture, rather it was a torture combined with a ritual hall and a laboratory.

- Change into this, sister. And remember, you and I are the children of Isabella's maid. Behave as downtrodden as possible and keep your head down, and then the churchmen won't do anything to us. You are a smart girl and you should understand what will happen to us if we are discovered, - I said to my sister, handing her a torn dress.

After we changed, we immediately climbed into a large cage, which was covered in blood. I quickly closed it with telekinesis and waited for the guests. And I didn't have to wait long.

After about half an hour, several people in white robes and with swords drawn broke into the room. I immediately knew they were exorcists. It was hard not to recognize them.

"W-Who are you?" I asked in a trembling voice, playing the role of a child frightened by an evil dark magician.

"Don't be afraid, child, we've come to help," said the exorcist, who was clearly in charge.

At that moment, I relaxed and waited for release, already confident that everything had gone according to plan.

But then I didn't know yet that my sister and I would be sent to an unusual orphanage.