Chapter 4: Grauzauberer

It's been three years since I've moved in the mountain and am now 11 years old. After awakening my Touki I spent the next two years mastering it and learning eastern magic from Sun Wukong. I could now manipulate my Touki to cover any non-physical objects and was able to create a sonic blast of with my voice when enhancing it with Touki. After mastering my Touki I would begin learning magic from Shifu who thought me what he new about the basics of human magic and eastern magics. It seems to me that as in order for humans to access other types of magics they need to form a contact with a being who has that magic. Take me for example, by forming a contract with Bikou I was able to gain access to eastern magic as some of his specific mana was transferred to me and now allows me to also access it in a limited capacity. By this logic it seems that it is one of the reasons for magicians forming contracts with devils, so that they too can gain access to the OP devil magic. From what I've been reading I've also learnt that each magic type generally has a specific discipline of magic or niche that it excels at. For example devil magic is easy to cast as all one has to do is imagine it, Norse magic excels at sealing and eastern magic excels at purification and illuminations.

After going through all the magic books and learning all I could from Shifu, I had no choice but to ask him if he had any magician acquaintances who have grimoires dealing with human magic. Imagine my surprise when the next day I had a pile of grimoires about several types of magics dealing with nature and that he got them from Mephisto Pheles, the Chairman of the Magician organisation, Grauzauberer, and Leader of the Extra Demons Clan.

I asked him in astonishment how he got these without any compensation. The Old man simply told me that Mephisto owed him one and called in a favour with a mysterious smile on his face. I was kinda touched that he would go that far for me I sweared that day that I will repay him for all he has done for me.

Using these grimoires I was able to learn intermediate levels of Teleportation, intermediate defensive magic and advanced Strengthening magic, I also began learning flight magic.

I'm now presently sitting in a clearing at the edge of the mountain trying to feel the mana. Since I've began learning magic my mana senses has drastically increased to the point where I can feel a mana signature of any type from almost a mile away. I then felt Bikou's signature approaching me which then got me standing up.

"Yo Cao Cao Gramps wants you back at the temple."

"Shifu is back from his errand for Lord Indra? I said, internally cursing at bringing up Indra in the conversation.

My Master, Sun Wukong, is somewhat part of the Hindu Faction as Indra's Vanguard and is given sometimes tasks to fulfil by the Heaven Emperor. He often complains about being nothing more than a errand boy but he accomplish these tasks faithfully.

However that doesn't mean that I share his faith in the God of Heaven. After all I'm pretty sure Indra know about me and my Longinus so I definitely do not want to go near him in case he decides to get me involved his war with Shiva which from what I heard From my master and Yu-Long is Indra's goal. I also really hate the fact that he coursed the death of Karna, he was my favourite hero in the Mahabharata so fuck Indra.

This is something that I want to avoid at all cost not only because it would be detrimental to my goal but also because Indra was portrayed as a shrewd and manipulative individual. He is not someone I can trust so I've been avoiding any topics involving him.

"Yeah, he came back this morning anyway we have guests and they want to meet you." said Bikou startling me from my thoughts.

"Me? Why and who?!" I sputtered in surprise. No one ever came to visit me since I moved in the mountain.

' Is it Indra ? Please by Gabriel's holy tits, let it not be Indra !' I cursed in my mind and suddenly became very nervous.

" Relax man, it's just the Grauzauberer." snickered Bikou at the face I was making. Grauzauberer ? Since the day my master called in his favour to Mephisto Pheles I've been asking them through Shifu to send me several books dealing with the basics of thaumaturgy but also magics theories and I've asked them a few months to send books dealing with Time, Space and Gravity magic but also alchemy.

It's not like they will miss them as they have several copies in their library and I always send them back after I memorised everything. Besides they always teleported the books to our location and never sent representatives before. Why do it now ?

We made our way back to the temple to meet with the guests . I was still leery about meeting these people and wondered what they wanted from me. ' At least its not Indra. Thanks Gabriel for small mercy.'

Trying to think about something other than the terrifying God Of War I wondered about my next course of action. I already planned to leave the mountain when I'll reach thirteen or fourteen years old in other words a year or two from now but what I should do after ? The next step should logically be to recruit members for my group but would they even listen to me.

Should I go to the Church to find Jeanne and Siegfried? What about Team Slash Dog, are they already with Grigori? And where the fuck Heracles and Leonardo located? In fact in how many years does Canon start? They never specified Cao Cao age in the novels and looking at Bikou tells me nothing.

'Arghhhh! I have so much to do and so little time!' I mentally raged.

" Cao Cao, we're here." I was so lost in thought that I didn't see that we arrived at our destination. I calmed my mind and entered the room.

Looking at the people, I could see my Shifu drinking tea with three people at the table. One was a middle-aged man wearing a blue and red costume. He had gelled hair which is a mixture of red and blue, two different colour eyes with one being blue and the other red. He had a mischievous smile pulling at his slips. For some reason I felt chills go down my spine looking at it.

He also had two children with him. A young boy with spiky brown hair and rectangular glasses and a serious air around him. 'Is that Georg' he thought shocked. The other child was a young girl with blonde hair and blue eyes and a witch hat atop her head. She was sending a kind and innocent smile his way. He felt like he knows her too.

" Hoh You're here finally here Cao Cao, come sit" addressed my master. " Let me present you our guest. This is Mephisto Pheles, Georg Faust and Lavinia Reni. " Introduced my master while they all nodded in my direction.

"Nice to meet is an honour to be in your presence." I said while bowing.

I sat down and wondered if I was fortunate to meet two potential recruits with one a member of the original Hero Faction and the other a member of Slash dog team or unfortunate to be face-to-face with The Mephisto Pheles who literally embody the deceitful nature of devils.

" So this is him." spoke one the oldest devil alive for the first time with eyes full of curiosity." Such an interesting specimen."

It was really creepy how he was looking at me, I honestly felt kind of violated .

" So much light inside a single human body. Even Saints blessed by God do not have as much holy light as you. Though it is to be expected with your Longinus." He continued with a smile while taking a sip from his drink."Honestly as a devil I feel kinda violated being in front of you."

"Huh." I answered dumbly while thinking.' That's my line, you creepy bastard.' I could see him raising an eyebrow at my deadpan expression and could see Georg and Lavinia looking at me in shock and curiosity.' Wait the knows about my Sacred Gear . Of course he knows. Why am I not surprised ?'

In my studies of the supernatural world, the subject of Mephisto Pheles often came out. After all he is one of the most famous devils in history being the Chairman of Grauzaurberer and Leader of the Extra-Demons. He is also the second oldest devil after Zekram Bael and is said to be as strong as the current and former Maous bar Sirzechs Lucifer and Ajuka Beelzebub. He is also considered to be one the most knowledgable person in the universe.

Well that's what that Lazy Dragon, Yu-Long, told me when he'll come down to visit to tell me stories about the past.

" It seems that you will lead an interesting life Cao Cao, was it ? I nodded at him while he smirked at me." Make sure to entertain me in the future. " I stared at him dumfounded that he would come to see me simply to tell me to entertain him in the future.

" Anyway, now that I've seen what I wanted to see , Georg, Lavi, why don't you play outside with the other kids ? I'm going to catch up with the old monkey." said Mephistpo Pheles without care.

"Cao Cao, Bikou. Show our guests around the mountain." said our master in turn.

Georg didn't seem pleased with the way Mephisto treated him like a kid and Lavinia seemed excited to see the sights.

" We are not children." mumbled Georg.

"Okay see ya later, Uncle" exclaimed Lavinia already running outside.

We all made our way to the garden near the temple. Georg seemed uninterested in everything around him and was trying to make a hole in my head with his staring at me from behind while Lavinia was chatting animatedly with Bikou and I.

"Hey, Cao-chan, What do you do usually in this Mountain ?" questioned Lavinia Reni, wielder of Absolute Demise while taking my arm in hers and putting it between her growing breasts. ' Wait did she call Cao-chan ?' Damn, I've read in my past life that she was very touchy and oblivious to her beauty but I could feel the touch of her breasts in my arm and her beautiful eyes and cute face looking at me. Wait, Cao Cao, what are you thinking all of sudden ? Bad thought, go away ! She's only thirteen now at least wait a few years.

"Eat, Train and Sleep." I answered with a blush on my face while looking away from her innocent eyes. "Huuuhhh, that's all ?! Thats not good Cao- chan, you should have fun from time to time." scolded Lavinia with puffed up cheeks.'Damn ! she's too cute !'

"Such is the life of a monk ." I said in all seriousness trying to keep lewd thoughts away.

"You're too serious Cao-" " Cao Cao like the Chinese warlord." interrupted Georg . I looked behind me to see him looking at me intently.

"Yeah my buddy here is the descendant of an Hero of the Three Kingdoms." exclaimed Bikou next to me.

" Oh, what a coincidence I, too, am the descendant of a Hero. Johann Faust to be precise." mused the wielder of Dimension Lost seeming amused.

" I figured, your name give it away though I am one to talk I literally have the same name as my ancestor." I said while trying to find out to find out what he wants.

" According to our teacher you hold an unusual high affinity to Light magic but you are clearly human and only angels and saints blessed by God or one of his Archangels can wield holy light." continued Georg seemingly in deep thoughts."However you have even more Light in you than Saints. That could only mean one thing."

" Where are you going with this ?" I asked him while I wondered what he found out about me.

" You figured it out too, Lavinia ?" He spoke to Lavinia asking her a question and expecting her to know the answer. " Yess !" exclaimed Lavinia looking at me cheerfully." There is only three Longinus of the ten associated with Holy Light. Cao-chan either have Sephiroth Graal, Incinerate Anthem or… the True Longinus. Am I right or am I right." said the innocent girl looking at me as if she wanted me to praise her.

" So which one is it ?"

"Wow, you're good. If you want to know his Longinus is..." I immediately put my hand on his mouth before he could blurt it out.

" Sorry but I can only inform the people I trust about my Longinus. " I explained as an excuse.

" There is no need for such thing. We have three Longinus wielders gathered here." said Georg trying to pry the information out of me." We, too, have a Longinus like you, I have Dimension Lost."

"And I have Annihilation Maker so please tell me Cao-chan." said Lavinia with a smile on her cute face.

"Sorry I still can't. My Longinus makes me a target more than even you two. The less people know about me the better. I need to keep my cards close to the chest." I said firmly tying to convince them to drop it.

"Pragmatic of you, I can respect that. Very well I will not pry further." conceded Georg with Lavinia seeming mollified.

"Sorry Cao-chan."

"It's alright. Maybe in the future."

"I'll hold you to that, Cao Cao. One last thing, my teacher seemed to think that you will lead an interesting life and he doesn't say that to many people. Can I ask what you intend to do after you finish your apprenticeship under Sun Wukong?" asked the young boy curiously.

"I'm going to protect people like me." I said with absolutely no hesitation and I could see the confusion in there faces. At that moment I wondered if I should tell them everything. If they would even listen to me but I continued resolutely.

" I will protect people like me, who had no choice in their lot in life. Take the the Sacred Gears users. Some would say that we were fortunate to be born with such powers but is that really the case ? Do you know even know any Sacred Gears users who lived a peaceful life ? No, all of them lived a dangerous life and died fighting. Supposedly, God created these tools so that we could protect ourselves and our fellow humans. What a joke! Everyone knows that Sacred Gears are considered nothing more than tools. We are used by the devils to bolster their numbers and make their races stronger, by the Church to be used as weapons for God and by the Fallen Angels to further advance their agendas. Don't you find it strange that we are used and discarded by the same people we should protect ourselves from even though God created these tools so that we could contend with the supernatural. And yet instead of being united against adversity, we are scattered and under the thumbs of these people." I could see that my words had an effect on my audience, they were enraptured and waiting for me to continue. "But those are not the only people I wish to protect."

I breathed slowly. "I have read a story once, about a girl who was a born a halfbreed between the union of a human and a fallen angel. She was hated by the members of her mother's clan and by the fallen angels alike. Her mother was later executed by her very own clan and she was hunted down by those people."

I looked at the sky and continued talking. "After reading that story, I wondered how many people are like that little girl and if yes, why no one has done anything about it. These half breeds didn't choose how they born and yet they are most of the time hated by either one or both side of their family and they end up either exiled, hunted down or outright killed."

I looked at them with with determination and told them about my dream.

"If you wanted to know what I wanted to do then this is it. I'm going to protect these people and create a safe haven for them so that they could leave peacefully. I will succeed no matter even if I have to fight Gods, Devils and Angels to achieve it." I finally looked at my audience.

Well, I didn't expect this. They seemed to be speechless even Bikou even though he already heard about it. Georg had his mouth open and was looking at him with reverence. In fact he seemed two seconds away from kneeling and swearing his eternal allegiance to me. Damn is that Cao Cao charisma being at works. Bikou was nodding rapidly and looking at me approvingly while Lavinia, well, she seems to be crying heavily and yet her eyes were sparkling in my direction. Wait. What is this red tint on her cheeks.

I suddenly felt something heavy on my chest hugging me closely.

" Waaaahhhh, This is so incredible Cao-Chan ! You are so amazing !" cried Lavinia on my chest. I knew that the subject about halfbreed would sting a cord in her because of Vali but not to this extent.

I could feel her breasts pressing against my chest. Damn, where is the mature and innocent beauty from canon, She acts more like Serafall Leviathan but again she's only twelve. ' I wonder what this says about Serafall if she acts like a twelve years old.'

This is not good. At his rate I'm going to end up a pervert like everyone in this world. No, I refuse to lose my common sense because of breasts. I refuse !

" Ouf, Lavinia get off !" I said trying to pry her arms off me.

"Only if you call me Lavi. Say it ! LAVI." demanded the cheerful girl.

"Very well, Lavi get off me please." I conceded to the young witch.

"Yeahhhh!" Lavinia slowly got off me.

" Now that this is over, I have to agree with Lavinia, this is incredible. I never thought that you held such ambition." spoke Georg with admiration clear in his voice.

" Yeah it was really cool, buddy" " Yeah I know it sounds crazy but I will not give up before I succeed." I said with a confident smile.

" Cao-chan, if you need any help you just have to call me. I'll come running !" said Lavi seriously but it only made her cuter.

"You know you can already count on me." I nodded at Bikou as he already accepted to join me after a few years.

" You can also ask me for help if you wish and while I have responsibility in Grauzaurberer I will find time to help." said Georg while looking away from me.

I could see he was really sold on my dream but he was uncertain if he should commit fully and join me , the same goes for Lavinia as I could see her looks of uncertainty at the direction of the temple where Mephisto currently is. But that's fine, I'll give them a few years before I'll make my offer so that they could think about it fully.

"Now that the heavy talk is over. Lets have some fun!" exclaimed Bikou excitedly.

We then spend the rest of our time showing off our skills in magics, speaking about everything and nothing. I spend most of my time chatting with Lavinia but I also talked extensively with Georg about magic theories. At the end of the day we were thoroughly exhausted and it was finally time for them leave.

" Send me tons of letters Cao-Chan !" said Lavinia innocently and kissed me on the cheeks. I could hear both my master and Mephisto Pheles laughing at my blushing face.

I then said my goodbye to Georg and watched them teleport back to where they come from.

" She was cute. Play your card rights and you could fuck her in a few years !" said the perverted monkey shamelessly. I immediatly summoned my True Longinus and ran after him seriously trying to kill that bastard all the while Bikou was laughing his ass off on the ground.

And this was how I met two of my future companions.

Time Skip: One years

Sun Wukong, The Great Sage Equaling the Heaven, looked proudly at his student saying his goodbye to Bikou, his descendant. He turned twelve this year and was already really tall for his age. With long black hair and blue eyes, young Cao Cao was wearing a Chinese attire over a black Japanese gakuran .'Youngsters these days, they have no taste in clothings.'

'He grow up well' thought the sage fondly.

The Old Sage could honestly say he was extremely proud of Cao Cao. It was a whim of his to take him as his disciple. True he had ambition and potential, enormous potential, he could already see it even when he was snot-nosed brat but he was not the first human or even youkais besides the members of his clan that he took as a disciple but all of them failed to learn anything from him.

And yet here is a young man who was able to succeed where everyone before him failed. He learned everything he taught to near perfection, of course not everything as some techniques are to Deal with Senjutsu and some are family secrets but he could still be considered his best disciple even better than Bikou who is the most talented out of all his descendants. Yes, the Buddha, could really say that he was proud of this young man.

" Shifu this is it." said his young student."Thank you for everything you've done for me." "No need to thank me, Cao Cao. You've realised all this through your own effort and you never needed me in the first place, you would have grown strong even without my help."

"But still I swear to one day repay my debt to you." insisted the young hero.

"I'm proud of you Cao Cao. Now go and achieve your dreams." he said while he patted him in the head.

"It is a Goodbye. Take care Shishou, you too Bikou." said Cao Cao turning around.

"Take care buddy and don't forget to come to get me from that blasted mountain when things will get interesting !" cried Bikou happy and yet sad to see his friend go without him.

"It's a promise, brother." Said Cao Cao after him." Come forth, Kinto'un." summoned Cao Cao a magic cloud that he created for him and sitting on top of it." See ya everyone."

" And don't forget to get rid of your V-card sooner than later." he teased and he could see his student nearly failing from his cloud. Shishsishsi its always fun to mess with that boy.

"Fuck youuuuu Shifu !" cried my student one last time.

'Look out world. There is a new player on the board. Shishishi.'