Chapter 10: Pet collection.

While everyone was busy with their own vices Raizel got up, every row he passed he could feel just how on edge everyone were. But he ignored their fear of him and just continued onwards straight to the exit, Norbert looked up just in time to catch a view of Raizel right before he head out.

"Where are you going" he asked, the classes attention already drawn towards them.

Rai paused his steps and replied "I'm going for a walk".

Norbert raised a brow "without my permission?".

"Mhm".

He scoffed and shook his head a little, Raizel moved another step forward and suddenly a barrier was manifested before him.

"Though you may be a god-level genius, that does not give you the freedom to disrespect anyone as you want".

"Especially me, now go back to your seat, you'll be able to leave in some minutes along with everyone else".

"...Not interested", he placed his left arm onto the barrier and just like that his arm instantly faded away.

Gasps sprung up from the vocals of most, Bellona's eyes were widened as she witnessed this scene.

Norbert shook his head "how stubborn, now go back, I'll fix it when the day is done" he advised.

"Hm" Raizel looked towards his left where his arm used to be, there was no anger in his eyes nor some negative emotion in his heart. He could feel the barrier didn't just fade his arm away but also put a seal on three of his powers, namely his Magic, Mutant and Dao abilities.

Raizel heaved a tired sigh, the next moment his arm regrew and his attire squirmed around to form a new sleeve on it "be glad I stopped it" he whispered and returned his gaze towards the barrier before him.

His teacher along with everyone else was dumbfounded and rightfully so, his teacher even more than they were because he had put a seal onto him so all of his abilities should be shut down at the moment, that also includes regeneration like this.

<<Barrier demon>>

After gathering enough Devil pieces again he formed a new demon, Raizel didn't let himself transform into the demon fully and only let it show through his eyes which were like a ripple of violet.

Norbert's eyes widened as he felt a chill run down his spine the moment he sensed something coming off Raizels body, just from feeling it alone he felt like his body soul was getting devoured . At this moment he remembered that apart from his other known three there were still two unknown universes of power in his body.

The top of Rai's index was covered in a small sea blue flame and he placed It onto the barrier, this time to the surprise of everyone nothing happened until they heard Raizel whisper something.

<Shatter>.

Jaws dropped at the scene that just unfolded before them, Raizel had actually broken through the teachers barrier, is this what a god-level genius truly was because it was living up to how terrifying that talent truly was.

Rai released the influence of his demon and stepped out, if the new teleportation restriction placed by the teacher wasn't so troublesome to force through then he wouldn't have had to take these unnecessary steps just to leave a barrier.

Though Rai knew for sure that the teacher was definitely much greater than he was at the moment, he could count at least seven seals placed level by level onto him so he did not count this as a victory of any sort, all he was sure of was the current him was weaker but far more dangerous than his teacher in his current state.

As he walked by different classes Raizel inevitably drew some eyes but as usual he ignored them all and continued on his stroll, the air really was damn rich with spiritual energy and he passively absorbed them all while he walked.

He reached a particular point and stopped, looking up at the sign on the doorframe to the left of him.

–CHIMERA LAB–

Is what it read, his gaze was paused on it for a few seconds and then decided to take a look inside, he placed his palm onto the door and it created a passage for him.

He looked down at his right hand, specifically the Omega sign engraved onto his palm. An hypothesis of his had just been confirmed, what he had really was some sort of all pass, this was very useful.

He walked through the doorway and it was like had just stepped into a new realm entirely, but he was not surprised as he had expected this.

Before him was an endless field that looked to have been split into different topographies and climates, but each were big enough to qualify as it's own continent belonging to one or more types of chimeras.

This was a farm, he understood that very quickly. Raizel looked up, far beyond the clouds and into space, his gaze locked on something for a few moments before he looked down at ground beneath him. Then he looked to his left, then to his right, then to his forward.

In a moment he was gone, right up in space looking down at the built world below him, he looked around to find six other worlds around the one in the middle. The one in the middle was the largest, larger than the other six combined while the other six were just around the same size as earth's original moon.

'Hmm'.

He expressed mentally and steadily flew towards a second world, upon reaching it he tried entering but couldn't, a force was keeping him out of it so he put his right arm forward first.

As expected it went through and so did his entire body, looking down below he confirmed that right now he was indeed in the true lab itself.

Many beasts were kept in place either with runes or by sealing circles and sealing chains. And of course they were compartmentalized into a section belonging to a particular Mage, there was a mini farm which was still quite incredibly large, a testing area and then an area for disposal.

But it wasn't just mages that were present in this chimera project, those from the weakest universe of power were also present but their area was far separate from that of the Mages.

Raizel teleported towards the side of science first, though three out of his five paths remain sealed, the abilities he possessed at the very base worked just fine aside from the other two.

He flew towards one of the containment areas which was a large area with nearly a kilometre worth of space, lots of chimeras were kept in what seemed to be energy cells and also some were also kept in forcefields, then there were a few who were held down by sealing circles.

Rai wondered what Magic was doing in this section but upon closer inspection he saw that these circles were being cast by a stone with a rune carved into it, he noticed the huge blocks of mana stones laying some distance away, their power clearly being drawn by the runestone to power it's continued casting of the sealing circle.

'Hmm'.

It seemed like these were either bought or gifted, Raizel had no doubt that with the existence of runestones imbued with readily available spells so long as there's sufficient mana to draw form then this was probably a massive business in the world, he'd be a fool not to see the prospects though he could care less for it.

He noticed that the beasts kept in cells were the weakest of the bunch and those contained by force fields were of much greater threats, but those kept contained by sealing circles were Magic and mutant beasts.

Raizel wondered what they would possibly need or could even do with this, especially magic beasts. Biologically anything they could try altering about them would end up a failure due to a missing component of a present mage to help.

But was there any mage with their inborn pride willing to work this extensively with a path much lower than they were, the weakest path to boot, it's already a miracle that they share the same world in this lab.

Perhaps there might actually be, nothing was ever truly 100% after all. He took note of the guards around the containment area, then at the ones he assumed would be the scientists and all the 'Ists' that were directly involved with the project.

His eyes once again took on a flowery pattern and glowed a deep starry pink in colour, in an instant a mass hypnosis was cast on everyone present bar the beasts and Raizel steadily descended down til he was levitating only just a few centimetres above the forcefield done covering the top of the containment section.

Though it may have looked like Raizel was just seeing everything occuring inside due to perhaps there being no form of a ceiling or covering for everything here, this was in fact not the case.

His eyes were just powerful enough to see through almost anything if he willed it, for both the containment section and mini farm here there was a near invisible to the normal eyes forcefield present as the covering or barrier, but for other sections they had the liberty of using a traditional type of covering along with a forcefield present around most of it all.

Raizel tore a hole through the forcefield with his mind and descended into the area, his feet levitating moderately above ground and the forcefield was mended back together. The guards still stood and moved around as if witnessing nothing out of the ordinary happening, but the beasts who were able to see Raizel began shaking in fear of him.

But a stern look along with a mental command set them all in place, he did this lest they go into a frenzy and he did not want that noise in his ears, of course the guards noticed the little situation of earlier but brushed it off as just another of their episodes.

Raizel moved from cage to cage and while using a tiny fraction of his Angelic side he began taking note of the beasts trapped inside the cages, their conditions, their enhancements and detractions , he noticed there was a small holographic screen before each cage which displayed different sets of letters and numbers along with a given hybrid name, then there were some who had symbols instead.

Upon taking a closer look he noticed these same sets and symbols were showing around a bracelet attached to the limbs of the corresponding beats which resided in each cage, he left the area of cages first and teleported towards the ones trapped in forcefields, the same bracelets were attached to them but there was no holographic interface screens displaying before their prison home.

He used his angel eye on them too albeit a much more suppressed version as he had used earlier, these were indeed mutant beasts and not those of common origin.

'Should I take them as pets' he wondered, the idea did seem very attractive to him, providing for them was no issue at all, neither was their obedience, he could share a piece of himself with all of them too thereby making them so much greater than anyone can.

Seemed a very fun idea, he let himself deliberate on it for now but he was sure eventually he'd agree to take them all.

He left this section and then teleported to the beats held down by sealing circles, there were also quality Magic beasts with some of them even being born with rare bloodlines and with the fact some of them were chimeras they were enhanced even further.

But Raizels focus was particularly drawn to one alone, it was a thunderbird. She would stand about 13 feet tall in height if upright and had deep blue feathers that had a sharp and eerie metallic sheen to them, her pupils were a bright gold in colour and both the tip and the edges of her feathered wings all seemed to have been tainted a deep black.

She looked absolutely majestic even with how worn out and exhausted she was, but what had truly caught Raizels eye about her was the level of hostile intent she was emitting towards him and the fact her fear was different.

He moved closer to her and she became a little more aggressive, her feathers flared up just a bit. He stopped when he had come close enough and tilted his head to the side a bit, she was afraid, truly afraid but not for herself at all.

He could tell she didn't fear him one bit, her fear was for someone else entirely and in a moment Rai had discovered who it was.

A little ruffle came her left wing and then popped the head of a figure much smaller than her mother but big enough that she could reach up to a grown adults waist in height, the little one had warm orange feathers with the edges and tips of her wing being a deep red.

The entirety of her eyes were a starry red in colour and her tails were much different than normal, other than the long and well fanned out feathers here were also six long tail feathers extending from them, they were nearly two times the length of her own body and the ends were patterned like that of a peacock.

She panicked seeing her daughter had come out and hurriedly hid her from him with her wings, she then turned her head a little to see the guards in hopes that they hadn't seen her.

Raizel felt her fear for the little one increase and her relief when she found out they had seen nothing out of the ordinary, but the little one was behaving weirdly as she refused to followed her mother's intent to keep herself hidden like always.

She tried to wriggle out from underneath her wings and ushered little cries in her struggle, her mother's heart skipped a beat the moment she heard her cries and quickly turned her gaze towards the guards who as she had feared were made aware of the situation this time.

Guard 1– "Did you hear that".

Asked one who received a nod from his fellow mates, their eyes were dead set on the thunderbird who seemed to be restless, the cries were coming from somewhere around her so they began approaching while looking at her from head to toe.

Then one of them noticed it.

Guard 2– "Look, right there, her wings".

He alerted his mates who followed his words and saw it, then they really paid attention to the cries and it hit them.

Guard 3– "Wait, don't tell me.....

Her eyes shrunk upon hearing their words and a second later the little one finally broke free from her mother's wings and rushed towards the edge of the seal, her mother released a desperate cry for her but her focus was quickly returned to the guards who took a step back in disbelief.

Guard 4– "By the gods".

Guard 1– "She actually had one successfully all these while".

Guard 5– "Quick, we have to report this to them".

A guard began the process of contacting them, a screen popped up right in front of him and he began reporting the situation to one of the heads, meanwhile the others were arms up and ready by instinct tho they knew their weapons were useless against her, thankfully she was in the seal and couldn't do anything to them.

"Done!" The guard reported and they nod their heads, soon they would be here but for now they decided to go closer.

Meanwhile while all this was happening the little one was just bouncing her body up and down and side to side while ushering excited calls for Raizel who was truly a bit dumbstruck.

But he couldn't help but smile, this little one was definitely something, the instinctual feeling he instilled in beasts was fear but here she was somehow being the most drawn to him instead, her mother too was amazing but she even more so.

He smiled and moved closer to her, he got a threatening aura from her mother and scoffed softly as he revealed to her his intent also.

"What's wrong with the kid"

Asked a guard and the others shrugged as they too had no idea why the kid was being so weird, but perhaps it's based on the fact that it was a kid after all.

Some moments later four pillars of light formed in the room accompanied by a little hum, once the pillars were gone four beings were revealed. Two were humans and the other two were of other races and on them were white body suits, they were one of the top scientists here and were responsible for handling her.

Almost immediately their eyes were drawn to the little one and they lit up like joysticks.

"My god it's real, she really did birth one successfully".

Exclaimed one of the human scientists as he rushed forward towards the them, the mother bird quickly moved forward and shielded her child with her wings.

The man slowed down and began laughing as he looked up at her "Monroe my dear, you truly are remarkable you know" he grinned.

"To have hidden your child from us this long, absolutely remarkable" he closed his eyes, a wide smile visible on his face as he took in a deep breath and exhaled.

"Remarkable indeed".

His mates walked over, the two non-humans were of the Yazul race which were a humanoid race with two sets of arms, ashy blue skin and also possessed a face with no discernable features other than the faint outline of a nose bridge and a brow with sockets. But this wasn't because they were without actual facial features, the Yazul just had a tradition of wearing those masks, the reasons why they do this was unrevealed. But for those who have had the privilege or ability to see the Yazul without one described beautiful monsters.

They were quite a bit noticeably taller on average compared to humans and were also quite literally genetically superhuman in every way possible, born with reflexes, hearing and eyesight surpassing that of a cat three times over on average, a bone density and muscle strength comparable to that of a full grown male polar bear at a young age and a still optimised enough that they could rival or sometimes surpass the speed and acceleration of a cheetah by up to 3 times over.

Almost always born with an IQ at the upper 100 on average, capable of lifting up to 10 tons of weight at their absolute peak accompanied by a terrifying amount of punching power contained in their fists.

Along with a few other incredible things they possessed, the Yazul were also one of the few races on the planet who refused to create hybrids with other races and kept the act strictly between those of their own race alone.

"We should contact the Mage to come help us in removing that child from the seal so we can study her" a Yazul suggested.

And upon hearing him say that, the motherbird lost it. Their eyes widened the moment they saw the Magic circle crack and begin fading away, they felt like their hearts were caught in their throats due to just how great of a terror they were feeling at the moment.

Raizel smiled, the smart bird really must have been studying that seal for a while and had probably learnt of ways to weaken it just enough. The little one rushed out from behind her mother and flew towards Raizel who held his hand out for her to perch on, he looked up at her mother who was staring down at him.

And he just gave her a small smile in return, her gaze left him and was now focused on the ones before her who were frozen in place by terror.

She raised her head up and ushered a devastating cry infused with mana which tore the forcefield apart and went on far beyond into space itself, her body began generating sparks of lightning which grew stronger and more dangerous by the second.

The guards who had lost their senses opened fire with their blasters on her like madmen screaming at the top of their lungs, the effects of which were completely non-existent on her.

She constructed a simple wind blade and before they knew it their bodies had been cleanly cut in two with the wind blade not stopping in the slightest after tearing through them as it had tore through the building and continued smoothly onwards for the next few thousand miles while cutting down everything in it's path.

Monroe looked at the other multiple other guards in this section, she also felt a lot more on the way but her attention was glued to these four before her.

And right now they were experiencing a confusion that was fueling their terror, with the neuro-link chips in their brains they already sent a command for them to be teleported out of a here yet the answers they received was that they couldn't.

Looking at the big angry bird before them, reality hit them that they were truly done for right now as their only route of escape had been blocked by someone they had no idea was right with them.

Raizel had taken possession of his barrier demon again and used a small fraction to create an invisible barrier around them that restricted all sorts of teleportation and transportation abilities lest they escape the same way they arrived or perhaps with another way.

"Monroe my dear p-please do understand—

His eyes widened as felt one of his arms drop to the floor and the pain hit him as he screamed at the top of his lungs, rolling around and convulsing due to the sheer pain he was feeling.

But his situation would only get worse as his second arm also dropped to the ground, his scream loud and abrupt that it managed to wound his vocals, tears ran down his cheeks and his forehead was drenched in sweat.

But yet he would no choice but to scream even louder and hurt himself even more as his two legs were cut off from his body, right now he was like a limbless mannequin convulsing and screaming helplessly on the ground and in a pool of his own piss and blood, yet Monroe wasn't done yet.

In a split second she had gobbled him up in her beak, encasing him in a mana cocoon as she spread out her wings, Monroe shot up like a rocket and the wind pressure from her ascent blew everyone into the walls with extreme force.

Monroe was already in deep space a split second after her ascent and there she released the body of the bastard most responsible for her suffering and for the suffering he had threatened to show her child.

His mouth were agape, unable to make a single sound nor unable to instinctually grap onto his throat with his decapitated arms, just the pure eerie silence of a man suffering a most of horrifying of fates in screaming silence.

And in a matter of seconds space had claimed the life of it's victim, Monroe wasted not time in returning downwards towards the base.

With a single flap of her wings she was on a nosedive towards the planet, entering it just like a burning meteor. She infused a bit more mana and with another flap of her wings she was a few meters above the base, her entrance once again causing for a large disruption.

She steadily let herself down into the base, her immediate concern being to check up on her daughter to see if she was okay and to her relief she was.

The little one had manipulated her size to a more comfortable one and was now perched on Raizels shoulder and offered a welcoming cry to her mother who now had her attention back on the other three.

She looked a bit surprised to see them floating around in mid air and unable to do anything, not even move a single muscle nor make a sound, but she was sure they weren't unconscious, those wide open eyes that were looking around frantically told her all she needed to know.

Raizel had used a mixture of both mind his control and his psychokinetic abilities to keep them quiet and in place, he took a look around the containment area, all the beasts and chimeras locked up here.

Was also aware of the fact that these guys were now preparing for an all out war against her as was she also, the threat of the Mages possibly lending assistance was also an annoying bit.

He could teleport the whole containment area if he wished to but the problem was getting it through that door at the end, his teleportation didn't just work by him thinking up the spot and then instantly get there the next instant.

If the area wasn't in range of Rai's senses then he couldn't move there, be it his sight or spiritual sense, once it's out of these two then it becomes a blind spot and a no go area. The school walls were incredibly restrictive on his senses and anything beyond the walls couldn't be detected

Teleporting without the right location in sight was a disastrous thing to attempt, ending up anywhere or absolutely nowhere, the possibilities were endless.

He sighed and mentally liked himself to all beasts present excluding the little one and the mother bird:'the minute I release all of you it would be wise for you to not cause a ruckus'.

'Dutifully organise yourselves and no stampeding or flying away frantically as I have decided to take all of you as pets'.

'Worry not about being used as experiments and slaves like they used you for, not an interest of mine'

'So understand clearly that this is no rescue mission, you're just going to be....under new management'.

'Do you understand me'.

Once he received his answer he smiled then forcefully tore a big hole through each and everyone one of their containments, then for the one's held down by sealing Magic he possessed a bit of his barrier demon side and shattered the seals.

Monroe's senses were alerted by the breakout and she instantly took on a defensive stance ready to attack at any moment, her feathers flared up and buzzing with lightning all around, beasts weren't the friendliest with eachother, not even too their own species and right now she was facing a horde of them.

Individually the only threats she had were the Magic beasts whom weren't also truly on the same level as her individually but their threat levels when in numbers would be devastating to her, even yet she wasn't going to back down because no harm would be allowed to befall her child.

'It's okay'.

She looked down at Raizel and he waved at her to let her know it was all okay, the beasts weren't going to attack them, although still apprehensive she did drop her guard down a little and exactly as Raizel had said they didn't attack.

They just organised themselves into rows and sections, none were moving frantically nor were any showing the slightest bit of hostile intent. She looked down at Raizel again and guessed he had perhaps communicated something to them, but this would work in both her and her child's favour as more help was always appreciated.

Raizel dropped the little one who was reluctant to let go of him but after a little convincing she agreed, Monroe slightly spread out one of her wings in invite for her to get in she did.

He tapped his feet on the ground and covered the entire containment area along with everyone and everything inside it with a thin coating of his aura, Raizel could feel the prepared party readily waiting to attack but he was in no mood to entertain theri gifts so he flew up out of the containment area.

A man began began calling out to him, based on his presence Rai judged he was some sort of general, perhaps a bit lesser.

His back was turned to him and his mind was only on getting the containment area out, he used his mind to cut it off from the entire structure it was attached too and right in this moment he could feel the ones around him declare his act as hostile and therefore okay to engage.

The containment structure was levitated right before their eyes, the absolutely collosal monster that it was was now high up above them in a matter of seconds thereby making their jaws drop. They were well aware of psychic powers possessed by mutants, even mages and Dao practitioners, to lift a structure as large and heavy as with ease in literal seconds meant his ceiling was incredibly damn high

The general gave the order to begin the attack and in moments a pulsing barrier had erected itself up behind Raizel and all around him, but the soldiers and technology seemed to also be generating a similar energy to this barrier as was everything else down below and above except for him and the containment area.

Raizel noticed it didn't cross into the side of the Mages, he looked around and could find not a single one in this section at all which made him crack a smile.

Then suddenly they opened up a very weird and huge rectangular box on all sides, they began blasting a particular soundwave and the minute Rai heard it he felt like he had lost all strength in his body and his head was upside down on it's neck.

He began falling down as his focus was all over the place, however he smiled and caught himself just two meters about two meters above ground then turned himself upright.

Some sort of black ball and an energy cannon was shot straight at him but he stopped their approach some distance away with his mind, he could sense tiny little things smaller than the a single grain of sand approaching him from all areas.

Although having no idea what it was he knew it was just another form of attack so he crushed every last one with his mind which surprised the general and every soldier to no end when he got the report of them being destroyed.

Those things were made to be undetectable and also made to look as something to ignore even if sensed by an individual with great abilities, yet he noticed them and destroyed it all with a single thought.

He grit his teeth in anger and was about to issue another wave of attack, this time a more deadlier and unstoppable one but Raizel was right in fron of him which made him stop in his tracks for a moment right before he remembered that he had the protection of the barrier on him.

So he put on a smug face and came a bit closer to Rai "it would be best you surrender and confess to who sent you, else the next round will not be as tame as the last" he demanded.

Raizel slightly raised a brow "what makes you think you're in control here, or that you ask the questions" he asked in honest.

"Because you can't hurt me, or anyone of us. You may be freakishly strong but you're not outside of our capabilities just yet, so it's best you—

**GACK**

Raizels hand were around his throat slowly crushing it, he and everyone else present couldn't understand how this was possible, it would take a force capable of obliterating the moon to destroy a barrier such as this yet he was crushing it so easily.

They yelled and got ready for attack but the general raised his hand urging them to cease action, he stared into Raizels deep crimson slitted pupils and all he saw was the gaze of a man looking down on an ant.

"So is this it, the source of your confidence.....how pathetic".

"I have no interest engaging you and your men in battle, there's nothing you have that could possibly pose a challenge to me even if I were even more suppressed than I already am".

The general's eyes squinted a bit in confusion wondering what he meant, but the time to wonder wasn't now as he was getting getting his pipes crushed and the feeling of death felt so much closer than it had ever been in his life.

"I will ask you some questions and you will answer them quickly and honestly".

"If you dare try not following these two rules then I will wipe out a significant number of your people".

"And if you do so again I shall wipe out even more, do you understand me?".

He received a desperate nod from he general and so his grip loosened, the general began coughing and gasping for air as he now showed a small smile to the general.

"How far away is this place away from earth".

The general washed no time in replying even through his great discomfort "400 lightyears away".

'That's close' he whispered, the general's eyes widened for a bit but he brushed it off as he didn't think he heard correctly.

"The pathway to it, where is it"..

"Th-there is a beacon right above us in space, it keeps tabs on the earth's movement so whichever it's beam is pointing towards is the pathway, it also has a teleportation platform at the ready".

"Though it could take you it's not great enough to take the containment area, at least not the one we have".

Raizel smiled and tapped his cheeks "good job, now it'll be advised you go back to rebuilding what I've taken away from you".

He flew up, pulling the containment area along with him till they were finally in space, Rai found the beacon pretty quickly and now came the part where he had to decide how to go from here on out. He couldn't go thr route of flying there, at the base level it would take him about two weeks to cover that distance and he didn't have the luxury of such time on his hands at the moment.

With a space demon it could be done in an instant after perhaps a minute of preparation for such a distance but he didn't enough pieces to create a demon of such a high level.

'Teleportation it is then'.

He'd have to perform a thousand teleports every millisecond that passes though that was just a random inflated number he just thought of to give an idea of the absurd situation he was about his body through.

But right before he was about to attempt it he paused it, the angel eyes granted the ability to see what obstacle is obstructing your goal and also shows the solution to it.

At least that's the main function though it has a whole lot of others, but the main in particular is something may be quite useful to Raizel right now.

He drew from his angelic side, a significantly greater portion than he'd ever used before and the golden eyes became present once more, Raizel smiled as it really did turn out as he had predicted, right he was getting the damn clearest view of earth possible and this was already more than enough.

'Alright then' he smiled, the end of his little exploration journey was finally here.

EnD.