Treading into the highest floor of the clocktower Ray plays anxiously with his fingers, what can be done with Strings of Luck is completely beyond his imagination, sure it's not an unlimited amount of Luck that gets added but a set amount but still, he can't even start to think about what's possible with them.
Opening the large door into the room easily with his superhiman body, Ray enters and gazes upon his subordinates sleeping in the chairs made for them.
Ray pours some magicules into [Ouroboros, Lord of Fate], and just like he ordered his ability to move, a string struck, piercing Cynus' chest cavity.
Cynus body began shaking and deforming itself until it returned to normal and his left eye opened, gears magically turning inside a whole world made out of metal, gears, and bolts clanking and turning in a beautiful rhythm, his gaze could send even those strong willed into an endless daze.
The second eye opened with the same beautiful scene inside of it, Ray felt his trusted subordinates' magicules being depleted within moments, his new skill has formed and the dog monster fell unconscious again.
Ray did the same with Blanc and as a string of luck pierced her she woke up for a few seconds until she fell unconscious too, but her transformation was less subtle, a pair of blinding wings made out of white fire appeared on her back, the white flames that create the wings seem to resemble the passing of eons.
This process was repeated with Yuji and Moss, the former obtaining the same eyes as Cynus, that look normal when looked at at first but are actually beautiful scenes of gears turning, Moss, in turn, inherited Blanc's white fire wings, but they were smaller and there were so many of them just looking at them could confuse one, if looked at one could see either one set, two sets of wings, three sets and so on and so on, nobody would be able to tell the exact amount, they are probably extractable like Blanc's.
Seeing how everybody fell unconscious right after waking up Ray decided to fasten the wake-up process by supplying his subordinates with magicules, he got plenty of them after evolving and the blooming process of the anomaly seed, if he needs to specify he would say that he has at least two times more magicules than Guy crimson (without the magicule breeder reactor he copied from Milim).
Anyways he started to supply Cynus with magicules by kneeling in front of the wolf and petting him.
"Huh... Master... I feel... tired." The wolf regained his lucidity bit by bit until he stood tall atop his four paws.
"Good morning sleepyhead," Ray exclaimed still petting the dog even though he already woke up.
"Good morning master."
"How about you tell me what you got after evolving? And after that let's get you and the other something to eat."
"Yes master, I heard that voice you normally hear, even though it sounded different from the other times I evolved and it said I got a skill called [Hachiko, Lord of Loyality] it makes me completely immortal as long as you exist, and in the near impossible case that you die Master, I'll be able to revive you as long as I know you died."
Ray's eyes began shaking, he would've never believed that his dog would earn an ultimate skill.
'Ok, [Ouroboros Lord of Fate] is definitely broken, maybe even more broken than [Raphael] but that's debatable.'
After waking the others and hearing that every single one of his subordinates got an Ultimate skill, Ray's world almost broke, sure not a single one of them got a big magicule increase but there were also cases like Cynus' who's ultimate skill requires only Ray to work.
'It's just unbelievable, [Ouroboros] is just way too op to be legal.'
In the end, Ray decided to go out with his subordinates to feast and to ask about their Ultimate skills, he just couldn't do that when hearing about all of them getting an Ultimate skill.
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"So anyway, what happened during the time we were asleep, " Moss asked pitting another piece of bread into his mouth.
Ray invited his subordinates into a local high end
restaurant, it's located in the pro magic party's part of the city and as such most of the things in the restaurant are magical.
There's a floating crystal chandelier on the ceiling and the cooks use magic stoves and monster plant oil harvested from living monster plants from the Jura forest.
"Well not much actually, but I visited a new Timeline, with my new race I have access to a wider arrange of different Timelines, even ones without skills and magic."
"You mean the murder dimensions you use to torture our recruits?" Blanc asked from the side as she cut a steak in half.
"Oh, please don't bring up those memories, experiencing Sir. Ray's Timelines taught me one lesson, the comfortable way is more often than not the worst possible way." Yuji added, sweat rolling from his neck as he was engulfed by said memories.
"You just can't appreciate Master's creations," Cynus muttered, he was under the table by choice Ray and the others offered him to sit with them but he declined saying he needs to show that he isn't on the same level as Ray but he got a whole duck served on a platter to eat.
"Why can't you come up here, it's weird if you're under the table even though you are just as important as we, you are the personal security guard of Ray after all," Blanc said staring the Dog under the Table down.
"I've already told you that it would be most deceiving for bypassers if I sit next to Master, what if they think I'm in his league.
"You do know that we have illusion magic on?" Moss inquired, as he concentrated on his meal.
The smacking from under the table stopped and silence ensued for a few seconds, "I guess it's okay to feast besides Master." the dog slowly ascended from under the table, the duck placed in his jaw, Cynus still showed some restraint.
"Could anybody cast illusion magic on him too, I'm a bit occupied currently," Ray asked, he was upholding the illusion on him and the other during the whole meal and he never really specialized in it, it wouldn't even be possible if not for [Library] to camouflage himself and the three other humanoids.
"Of course, Sir" Yuji answered as he cast illusion magic on Cynus.
"Now let's get to the meat of all that, let's talk about your Ultimate skills, who wants to go first."
Cynus highered his paw, "Aww not you Cynus, we already know that you're a good boy." Blanc said as she petted the dog, to the latter's discomfort.
"How about you start first then Blanc."
"Sure but there's not much to tell, I got a skill called [Kaos, Lord of the first age] its main ability is this."
Blanc pointed a finger upwards and a small white flame brimming with Temporal magicules manifested on it.
"This flame here can kill even those biologically immortal by old age, it just bypasses their immortality and they die in a few seconds after being inflicted by these flames."
"Ohh scary," Ray exclaimed.
"Ya, truly formidable, it can even bypass true immortality on the unique skill level." Moss already knew of Blanc's skill due to their racial bond.
"Perfect timing, Moss you go next." Ray
"Most of you know already about my Unique skill [Collector] it evolved into [Sparta, Lord of Unity], and with it, I can create 300 clones with the exact same strength as me, all of them can also use [Collector]. And if one of the 300 clones dies I can promote a [Collector] clone to a [Sparta] one."
"So basically unlimed clones." Ray
"Yeah basically unlimited clones, now let's enjoy this," Moss replied as a waiter brought another plate of food for Moss.
Ray turns his head to Yuji, the last one to need to explain his Ultimate skill.
"[Tartarus, Lord of the Underworld] with it I can open portals to the spiritual realm any time to escape or summon demons, I can also mind control any demon that's younger than 100 years, even if there's a huge power difference, after they become older I need to use magicules, in relation to the demon's power, to control them. It also allows me to create rifts to the dar parts of underworld that destroy everything in their way"
"Well then, let's start eating for real!"