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Second life in Multiverse

Disclaimer: My story is shit, i just try to write one since I always wanted to write one and now I always bored with my fav novel have no updates. Updated is inconsistent and most chapter will consist of 5k to 6k or above words. Also story will all be AU since i can't trust myself to make it consistent with the source. New Synopsis: A nameless smuck want to meet ROB suicide and coincidentally (or is it) a ROB notice him, gave him a contract to live second life but it went downhill when he fail a contract/quest in Date a Live world and receive a Penalty Contract. Now stuck in Bloodborne world and through his odd personality and mindset plus willpower, he survived and now start a new life as a full fledged multiverse traveller with his 'exotic' harem. World: Bloodborne ReZero Date a Live (again) DxD (Now) Also have +18

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Chapter 23 (+18)

Ch 23: Zenith (r18 alert)

Exiting the tear in dimension, Ray, Azazel and Michael arrived at the partially ruined area in Kyoto alternate dimension where the youkai lives. They saw many Tengu and kitsune youkai defending against the attack mantis monster.

The youkai attack, unable to scratch the very resistant carapace of the mantis. The mantis also makes use of tactics to divide the youkai before using pincer attacks to slowly dwindle their enemies without suffering any injuries.

The stronger youkai, the only great yokai the West Youkai Faction, Yasaka along with a group of youkai under her lead is trying their best to defend the Yasaka Shrine where all the civilian youkai are evacuated to.

Yasaka created a blue flaming orb of Fox Fire to barrage the mantis groups but Georg used his longinus, Dimension Lost to block the Fox Fire.

"Surrender yourself Yasaka, there isn't any chance you can win." Cao Cao points to the True Longinus at Yasaka."You can't run either because your daughter is still inside, surrounded by us."

The whole area around the Yasaka Shrine is engulfed by a layer of purple mist created by Georg to trap the people inside. When Ray and co arrived, he instantly look at their direction in surprise because Dimension Lost should prevent them from entering unless they are at the level of Super Devil or Primordial God.

"Cao Cao, we got company at seven." Georg said, which caused Cao Cao to look toward Ray's direction. Yasaka also did and surprised to see the man that sneaked into her bed last time

"Azazel and Michael… the other one is…"

"It's the Pale Blood King, he rumoured to possess the longinus, Incinerate Anthem." Georg finishes Cao Cao words before looking at their new opponent.

Cao Cao sends Jeanne, Heracles and Siegfried to stall them while he and Georg quickly finish up before the situation becomes complicated.

"I'm Siegf- *boom*"

Before Siegfried could finish his introduction, he felt a strong force instantly crush him alive. Heracles also suffers the same fate other than Jeanne who is surprised and becomes stunned as she could feel the oppressing pressure slammed on Siegfried and Heracles.

"No need to waste my time, all I need to know is you are part of Khaos Brigade and my enemies." Ray said without change of emotion and remained emotionless as he ripped away the sacred gear from them.

Siegfried and Heracles feel immense pain as a part of their soul is ripped out by Ray before he stores the Sacred Gear away in his inventory. Both shouted in pain before they turned quiet as their eyes became dull as their soul was damaged and unable to form consciousness.

"Whew, I didn't know you are quite heartless. What did you do to the Sacred Gear? I assume you forcefully taken them to make their soul to be this injured." Azazel said as he squatted down to check on the lifeless Siegfried and Heracles.

Ray's emotion returned. "I simply eliminate them before they become problematic. I rarely have mercy on my enemies unless of course…" he then looked at Jeanne which Azazel nodded understandingly while Michael ignored them while looking at the True Longinus in Cao Cao hand.

Cao Cao has his mouth opened wide enough to fit an egg. He could not believe that Siegfried and Heracles were defeated in a single move and he could not even discern the nature of the attack. He looks worried as two sacred gear users that have power of a high class are instantly defeated.

"Georg" Cao Cao called before Georg created another wave of purple mist, trying to absorb Ray and co away into another dimension.

Ray didn't react to the mist but Georg could feel the dimension being torn apart and saw the mist being split into two before it dissipated.

Georg feel terror rising in his heart as the undefendable Dimension Create is easily torn apart by Ray. Unless one is a strong god like Odin or Indra, they cannot resist the attack and even them need to expend some effort to breakthrough the Dimension Create effect

While Ray and George are having a face off, Azazel and Michael go and help the youkai to kill the mantis monster since Georg is occupied by Ray and cannot defend the mantis. Cao Cao uses the True Longinus to block the light spears from Azazel and Michael.

The spears are made larger since weak light spears will not pierce the highly resistant carapace of the mantis. Cao Cao extends the True Longinus to cut or block the light spears. Yasaka and her group of youkai also quickly double their efforts to fight back against the mantis monster.

Ray didn't rip apart the Dimension Lost from Georg and only knocked him out with the pressure he exerted on him which dispelled the blockage Georg did on the surrounding area of Kyoto.

Cao Cao became more desperate after Georg was also knocked out by Ray. Cao Cao abandoned his mission and grabbed Georg to escape using teleportation but failed when Ray pressured him with his Divine Will that caused him to stand still unable to make any movement.

"Do you really think I would let you escape just like that, Cao Cao of the Hero faction?" Ray said as he moved closer to Cao Cao while using psychic manipulation to subdue and drag Jeanne along with him.

Cao Cao who is pressed under the Divine Will finally notices what is the nature of the attack. He felt the overbearing spiritual pressure pressing on him making him almost passed out. He is barely able to resist using the power of True Longinus. He has to use the other form if he wants to have a fighting chance against Ray.

As a great warrior that is mostly self trained, his willpower is quite strong and able to resist the willpower Ray exerts on him. Ray however didn't fully exert his willpower and instead only used a small portion of it since he still didn't have good control on his willpower. His regular use of his Divine Will as a method of transportation is to train himself.

Cao Cao continues trying to overpower the spiritual pressure on him before he manages to break free and immediately uses True Longinus balance breaker.

"Polar Night Longinus Chakravartin!"

A light halo appeared behind him and seven identical orbs. Cao Cao is visibly more relaxed since the spiritual pressure is greatly reduced. Ray didn't increase its intensity and instead stopped applying spiritual pressure on Cao Cao.

Cao Cao wanted to take this chance to escape with Georg but suddenly he felt a great attraction force which made him look at Ray only to see him extend his arm and make grasping motions before he felt like he was being crushed from every side.

"I will not let you escape, Cao Cao. Not when you have something I wanted in your hand."

Cao Cao who is enduring the pain from the previous attack didn't get any breathing room as Ray started making another move on him. Cao Cao sends one of the orb away, which Ray notices is Assaratana, the orb that allows Cao Cao to teleport to it anytime.

Cao Cao tried to escape using that orb but Ray thwarted his attempt by crushing the orb with more willpower than before since the orb is rather durable. The effect of the attack is a 10 meter wide circular area being crushed, along with the building within the area of the orbs.

Cao Cao saw that Ray's attention is diverted to the orb, smiled victoriously as he stabbed the True Longinus into Ray's heart. This attack will kill if not severely weaken any god that gets stabbed as this is the property of the True Longinus, a god killing spear.

Before he can celebrate his victory however, his face morphed into disbelief then terror as the True Longinus cannot pierced Ray body at all. All he could hear from the attack was the sound of metal striking another metal instead of flesh being pierced.

Ray noticed the attack a few moments ago and could not defend it in time. He instead coats the area above his heart with a lot of layers of spiritual power using the same principle of Armament Haki to create an armor made of spiritual power. He also uses Kinesis and willpower to reduce the momentum of the stab.

Ray takes advantage of Cao Cao being stunned to slam his front body with spiritual power, causing Cao Cao to be thrown back like a rag doll and then digged into the soil by the force of the attack.

Azazel and Michael, who is busy helping the Youkais, stopped and looked toward the battle. They were both in shock that the longinus which is famed as the strongest and biggest bug in the Sacred Gear system. The spear that can easily kill a god and destroy a world if used properly is unable to even leave any scratch on Ray.

Cao Cao felt his body become very heavy and hardly able to move because of the severe internal injury. He is in despair because he could not escape from here as Ray would not give him the luxury of casting teleportation magic. He also could not match against Ray as he couldn't see the end of his power. Using his warrior instinct, he felt like he was standing on a small island before an endless cosmos which he could not see the end nor the depth.

He only has one other option other than to use those moves to have a fighting chance against Ray. This skill will grant him the absolute power to annihilate or a miracle to win against his enemies and the skill is scaled by the enemies strength. A similar effect to [Path of Victory] but less potent and have multiple factors tied to it.

The skill is Truth Idea and it made use of the Biblical God will that was left inside the True Longinus to create the effect. The God's Will absorbs the ambition of its wielder and its opponent to evaluate and select one. If Cao Cao's ambition is selected, a miracle will be granted to him to win against his foe.

"O Spear. The true Holy Spear which pierces through God.

Suck the ambition of the King of Domination sleeping within me and pierce through the gap of blessing and destruction.

You. Announce the will, and turn into a glow."

Cao Cao chanted with a loud voice as he used the True Longinus as a support to stand up from the crater he created. Azazel and Michael are very much stunned when they feel the will of their father in the True Longinus when Cao Cao starts chanting to activate Truth Idea.

When Cao Cao finish chanting. The air stagnated and the whole area become quite as if the world stopped moving. Cao Cao is very glad and happy because he can feel that his ambition is chosen over Ray's ambition. Although it was simply because the God's Will couldn't read Ray's thoughts to know his ambition.

Then True Longinus move itself before it cut a tear in space. A man wearing Aloha shirt with large black bead necklace on his neck and a black sunglasses exit the tear in space. The man look at Cao Cao then the Youkais and the angels duo and finally Ray.

The man took off his sunglasses before look at Cao Cao and exposed his back to Ray, seemingly didn't care if Ray will sneak attack him.

"What is the meaning of this, Cao Cao?"

"Indra-sama! Please, help me defeat the Pale Blood King." Cao Cao instantly bow down and begged Indra, the God King of Hindu faction.

Indra however ignore Cao Cao plea and repeat his question again but this time with rage hidden in his voice but manage to keep it down as he ask his question.

"What is the meaning of this, Cao Cao?"

Cao Cao didn't reply as he know that Indra already discovered about his betrayal. The Hero Faction is supported by Indra because he is preparing to wage a war against Shiva and the Hero Faction is his vanguard again the army Shiva had assembled.

Cao Cao knew this and made use of Indra support to fund his effort on his Khaos Brigade's activities. Indra have a justified reason to be angry and wanting to eridicate Cao Cao from existence.

Indra discovered this when the mysterious force touches him before he got sucked into the space tear. He manage to see the Hero Faction leading the group of insects against many faction and mythologies using his Future Prediction. A few of them is the ones he supported and they have the audacity to attack his own faction. Indra basically realized that he is funding the terrorism from his own pocket.

"I see, you understand that you betrayed my trust on you. For that, I cut my ties from your Hero Faction and will regard you my enemies." Indra grab Cao Cao by the neck before throwing it to Ray.

"I know you wanted its Sacred Gear. Take it, it's my peace offering for joining your alliance."

Ray is visibly confused when Indra give him the True Longinus and suddenly want to join his alliance. Then he remembered Indra probably seen something using his Future Prediction and see it as beneficial to join the alliance.

"Then I will not hesitate." Ray said before he ripped the True Longinus and bond it to his soul.

"May I ask, what did you see with your Future Prediction?" Ray asked which made Indra flinched a little before he move closer to Ray.

"What I seen from my Future Prediction is many as it is prediction. However the consistent one is you and your alliance defeating the great mastermind behind Khaos Brigade."

"You also conquer the world right after that, declaring that you own the world." Indra said without change of expression as Michael and Azazel who arrived few moments ago looked in surprise.

Michael and Azazel look at Ray in disbelief as they quickly ask Ray if its true. Ray closed his eyes and sighed before saying yes. The angels duo stunned and re-evaluating their choice to side with Ray.

"Why would you join the alliance if you know my true goal?" Ray asked Indra since he just proposed to join the alliance even after knowing Ray's goal to conquer the world.

"That is because I didn't care if you conquer the world."

"What!" Azazel exclaimed while Michael waited for Indra's answer.

"I didn't care because he wouldn't care too, he only want the title and recognition of owning the world and didn't care about the actual world. Just like Great Red, he wouldn't care about the world after obtaining it and become like Great Red and wander somewhere else." Indra explained before he grinned.

"Also, I can see with my Future Prediction that he defeated the Great Red before declaring the world is his own. I don't know about you two but anyone that defeated Great Red is someone I didn't want to mess with."

"Defeat Great Red… are you sure we talking about the True Dragon Great Red, Great Red?" Azazel tried to confirm what he heard and Indra nodded while crossing his arm and look at Azazel with an understanding look.

Anyone going to be shocked when hearing that someone have the power to defeat Great Red. Thus, Azazel disbelief is justified.

Ray however also already knew that he can defeat the Great Red. His body upgrade is precisely for this. Great Red hold the aspects of Dream, whatever attack or effect on its body can be denied. It can even deny it's death by making his death into a mere dream.

It also can be used to inflate its power by making dream into reality which made it practically invincible unless fought with conceptual power that is absolute and unaffected by its Dream abilities.

This render the Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing useless as Great Red can keep continue to inflate its power to over power the Boosted Gear or overload the Divine Dividing.

The key to overcome this is Ophis's aspects of Infinity or concept of limitless. Ray will use the concept of limitless on both gears to allow it to overcome the aspect of Dream. Simply imagine if Divine Dividing can Divide Great Red limitlessly without any strain from overloading with power, then Great Red is effectively suppressed heavily.

Then here comes the defeating part, Ray will need a weapon to essential able to kill the Great Red inorder to defeat it in combat or threaten it to surrender and there is none other than True Longinus. The True Longinus fundamental function is to bestow effect on itself.

Just like how it gain god slaying property, anti-evil properties and holy property after it stabbed Jesus Christ. This effect is later used as base to create Truth Idea. The Truth Idea will grant effect in a form of miracle like absolute power to win against an opponent.

Using the same idea, Ray can add concept of mortality example or every wound applied cannot be removed regardless of method. However, the stronger the concept, the steeper the cost. Example, a hit that will kill and a hit that will mortally wound.

The cost difference is very significant because of simple law of exchange. To higher price needed to be paid to obtain a significant effect. The difference is, mortally wounded is still alive and the state is more or less similar but a hit that kill will need to produce an outcome where anything that hit by it to change into another state and thus cost more.

A simple law of equivalent exchange, pay less for lesser impact and pay big for bigger impact.

For that, Ray will use Ophis aspects of limitless. It doesn't matter the price for the outcome when Ray have limitless money in his bank(Ophis) to pay. The only other limitations is himself.

Let say that the price for the outcome where Great Red being defeated is 1 billion and Ray can only withdraw $1 bill but endlessly. He have to manually carry them to pay and it will cost his stamina to carry those money inorder to pay. Ray of course can find ways to lessen the stamina cost but it will not be disclosed how to do it.

"Anyway, I will leave soon and send my representative to declare our intent to join your alliance. Also, the Khaos Brigade is hiding in Hades' realm along with most of its members." Indra then vanished away.

"Ray… Is what Indra said the truth?" Michael asked with uncertainty in his voice.

"Yes, I will and can defeat Great Red especially now that I obtain all necessary item for it."

"No, not that one. I mean that you wanted to conquer the world." Michael correct him.

"Haah, yes. I did want to conquer this world. I only want the title and recognition that I conquered the world, I don't care to manage the world if that is what you worried about."

Michael is visibly relief, he assumed that Ray is one of those people that wanted the achievement since this is nothing new that people wanted to conquer the world but at least Ray's conquest is easily done since they only need to recognize him as one like how they recognise Great Red.

They didn't need to spill blood for this conquest and Ray can easily achieve this after he defeated Great Red. As Indra said, no sane man will mess with someone that can defeat Great Red.

"If what you said is true then I am relieved. I dislike many conqueror because they spilled countless blood for their conquest but you… Your can be achieved by convincing the people." Michael said with a small smile on his face.

"Heh, if you can defeat Great Red, no one will think twice and accepted you as their leader. In fact, this alliance already serve that purpose right? To make every recognise you as a leader." Azazel said which made Michael notice about the alliance purpose.

Ray grab the Hero Faction before handing them to Azazel before they go to Yasaka. Yasaka is busy cleaning up the battlefield as the mantis are all killed. She directed the youkais that helped her to fight just now to heal and recover the dead.

They later wanted to negotiate with Yasaka to ask her to join the alliance. They didn't even needed to negotiate as Yasaka immediately agreed and stated that the Shinto gods also accepted this alliance. This is partially due to Ray's Cosmic Lord that gave him power over planet and stars which made the Amaterasu agreed easily since she could not fight against Ray when Ray can deprive her source of power.

Four days later, the Shinto, Youkai and Hindu faction arrived to meet with leader of the 4 faction of the alliance and join the alliance. While the other two only agreed to alliance against common enemy, Youkai of East and West faction asked for help to defend their territory since the recent attack have devastated their population.

Grigori and Pale Blood faction both agree to deploy 1 thousand their people each for peace keeping mission in Youkai territory.

Ray spend the next two day with his wives and not forget to sate their sexual needs. He is now able to easily tire Artemis after his manhood length increased by almost half its original length.

Then when Monday came, he stuck in his lab to develop the True Longinus. He also traded the two Sacred gear he obtained for the Sacred Gear Dreamlike Curse and a few very valuable materials.

2 months later, 4 Ray can be seen inside his lab while Albion and Ddraig are waiting at the side patiently. Everyone is focused on the spear that laid on the table with 4 Ray keep working on it.

The spear is fully gold with various letters and symbols occasionally glow on the spear before fade away. The spear has a cross spear design while being very minimalistic on the design. The while spear head material looks like cloudy golden yellow crystal but when touched, it feels like metal and has metal properties. The body of the spear is a straight golden pole that has many fine lines that look like it was assembled like a puzzle.

The spear is actually the True Longinus but completely overhauled since the original one has too many unnecessary parts and materials inside that prevent Ray from adding the actual function he needed. The only original part that isn't removed is the spear head part that Ray had combined with actual stars to create the golden yellow material used for its creation.

The whole process should last longer but with the use of Dreamlike Curse, he is able to reverse engineer the Sacred Gear to create a realistic illusion clone that interacts with the physical world using his Divine Will. He let his clone handle the micro process while he handled the main modification.

The True Longinus now totally changed and functions better for Ray than the previous True Longinus. The holy attributes of the spear are changes to magic negation which break down the very energy that sustains the process and thus negate the magic.

This ability is an offshoot of the concept imbuing function that is the main effects of the spear. This is because Ray is able to strengthen his body further than his base stats using Dragon Aura which is a special version of Reinforcement with Touki, then spiritual coating similar to Haki and his natural Dragon God body that doubles his base stats on passive mode and ten times on deification mode.

Rejection of Illusion is also an offshoot inspired by Illusion killer from Toaru. Any and every form of magic is a form of illusion where reality is altered to fit in the said illusion and make it a reality. This ability's most basic effect is to reject the illusion and undo its effect to restore it into its pristine state.

The advanced use of this ability is to reject whatever the user thinks is an illusion. Even if at base state the target already has a magic effect, if the user deem it as an illusion, it changes the reality and illusion and rejects it. This is created inorder to combat the Great Red Power of Dream.

Then the actual imbued concept which is the part that is being repurposed from the former True Longinus and a special attack he added using his understanding of cosmos and Cosmic Lord skill.

When he finished with the newly forged weapon, he then moved on with Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing. When weighing pros and cons, Ray decided that restoring their abilities is better than upgrading their power because the gear allows him to use their abilities too.

The problem with this is their main abilities like Ddraig's Incinerating Flame or Albion's Reduce which are exclusive to their original body and unable to be replicated. The other abilities like Doubling and Transference (Boost), Penetrate, Division and Absorption (Divide) and Reflect are successfully recreated with both Albion and Ddraig cooperation with Ray.

For the body specific abilities they have to somehow acquire them from another universe since in DxD, it's already being destroyed for good after their Gears creation. Perhaps he will select a world that he can acquire to go next.

(Note: The foreshadowing for the next world… or universe?

The amount of new stuff I learn to write my novel is causing my brain to overload that I mixed up a lot of the knowledge.)

Beside their abilities, Ray also manages to upgrade [Dragon Physique] they initially obtain from merging Ophis's flesh into [Incomplete Heavenly Dragon Physique] by using their soul as the blueprint and retrace the genetic information then recreate a degraded version of their original body but still strong enough to be around Ultimate class like

"Ray! Dinner is done!" One of the speakers that connected to his home transmitted Kurumi's voice.

Ray then stopped his modification on Zenith or rather fine tuning on Zenith's abilities before he finally raised his head from the lowered posture to stretch his body, releasing the cracking noise from his bone. With a swipe of his hand, Zenith glowed into yellow light and hid all its features before returning into Ray's soul.

"You two wanna join?" Ray asked the dragon duo but they rejected and say they rather spend time to regain their proficiency on the regained abilities.

Ray then dispel his illusion clone and retrieve his thoughts before creating a teleportation magic circle that has Ophis' crest below him. Then the magic circle brightened before he vanished, leaving the dragon duo in the lab.

They went out of the lab to the planet surface to train their abilities. This is their daily routine for the past month, whenever Ray isn't in the lab to do modification, they will train on the planet surface until the next morning Ray returns to continue his modification. Occasionally he would bring them if there was an attack.

The alliance didn't have new members joining and focused on arming the joint military soldiers that will be used to storm Hades realm. The alliance members also voiced their thoughts on Ray's goal of world domination, they all agreed that they would accept him as the leader if he managed to defeat Great Red.

When Ray appeared on the other side, he saw Nia, Kurumi, Ravel, Ellen, Shinano and Scáthach in the dining room waiting for him. The reason for Artemis, Tsukuyomi and Ikaros not joining the dinner is because they didn't require sustenance.

Ray takes his seat before casting Purification magic to clean himself before eating. The dinner went silently with only the sound from the cutlery being heard. When they finished their food, a few maids pushing a trolley carrying dessert entered the dining room.

The maids remove the cutlery and plates before serving desserts then leave the room. At the other end of the long table, several dozens served desserts are seen before Ophis appeared and started eating them but slowly instead of inhaling the foods.

"Did anyone look for me today?" Ray asked as he scooped a spoonful of pudding into his mouth.

"Not for official business but Griselda came and complained that our Blood Priest is causing trouble in their church again." Ravel said as she tries to remember if there is more she should report to Ray.

"The bank worker contacted me today to tell me that the card you gave Ophis for her personal spending had reached the spending limit again." Ellen said as she was eating her favourite strawberry shortcake.

"Wait, again? I thought that I increase its limit to 1 million Yen last month. How can she spend that much anyway when we are also feeding her at home during breakfast and dinner?" Ray asked back as he almost dropped his spoon in shock.

"A lot of cafes specialized in pastries and desserts appeared all over Kouh due to Ophis providing demand for that market. She spends every single day in the cafes and Xenovia sometimes takes advantage of Ophis to get free food especially at the end of month." Ellen replied before handing Ray a tablet that show all the spending record.

"I'm never going to financially recover from this." Ray said which made Ellen and Kurumi look at him weirdly.

"What are you talking about? The restaurant and the other businesses you set up earn us at least 20 million yen monthly. We rarely even use the money for anything at all."

"Yes, as Ellen said, we never use them at all. Might as well let Ophis use them than let the money collect dust." Kurumi added while strangely supportive of Ophis. Ray sighed before finishing his pudding and went out for a walk to settle down the food before sleep.

Usually at night, Artemis and Tsukuyomi will always finds way to convince him to have sex before sleep. When he recently almost completed Zenith, Artemis became weirdly agitated to whatever he did. Ray at first thought perhaps she had a period but then remembered she is a weapon soul, her biology doesn't work that way.

Soon Tsukuyomi was convinced by her and joined her passive aggressive protest. However, Tsukuyomi didn't really last long, joining her protest when Ray asked Tsukuyomi what Artemis was protesting about. He replied that Artemis is worried if Ray will make Zenith into a weapon soul like them too.

Ray actually did plan to turn Zenith into a weapon soul but not in human form. He planned to make it into a fist size flood dragon with a body that looked like a yellow nebula as its Independent Avatar. This will make him look cooler and mysterious when meeting new people. Impression is important after all.

(Note: Inspired by Aurelion Sol from LoL, my fav champion although I'm very shit when playing the champion.)

'I swear! I didn't even plan to make her a human.' Ray tried to convince Artemis.

'Last time master said that, master made Tsukuyomi and fuck him anyway.'

'I'm making Zenith into my pet, not a human or half human. Do you expect me to fuck an animal next?'

'Yes' Artemis didn't even think for a moment before replied to Ray firmly.

'...'

Ray halted his step before staring at the empty road for a moment before he sighed. It's useless to convince Artemis without actual proof in his hand.

While Ray is having a mental conversation, Issei coincidentally passes by on his bicycle to his client which also happens to be Azazel who loves to spend his free time inspecting the Artificial Sacred Gear on Issei.

"Ray!" Issei shouted to catch Ray's attention before hitting the brake to halt the bicycle.

"What are you doing, being dazed like this in the middle of the street?" Issei continued while supporting his bicycle.

"Nothing a virgin like you will face anyway. Here take this, you are going to Azazel's place again right?" Ray gave Issei a well disguised condom in candy packaging.

"Shut up you! I am going to be harem king one day and nothing will stop me! Also what did you give me?" Issei proclaimed before looking at what Ray just gave him.

"Sure, good luck bud. Also it's for protection, if he gets a little touchy, tell him to use that." Ray said before tapping his shoulder and moving forward into the dimly lit street of Kuoh.

Issei assumes Ray is talking about when Azazel is inspecting his Dragon Fist which he now renamed to Dragon Arm due to it covering up to his shoulder. He waves Ray goodbye before continuing cycling to Azazel's apartment.

Ray continues his walk until he reaches near the newly renovated church. On the west part of Kuoh, he had hunters cleaning up the strays which made it relatively peaceful than the east part of Kuoh under the control of the Maou's sisters. He couldn't blame them for missing them since the only reason he found the strays is because of his Divine Will passively scanning the surroundings.

Ray gave them a quick and painless death as he turned back to the direction of his house. He made small talk with Artemis and Tsukuyomi as he walked back but was given a cold shoulder by Artemis.

-(Lemon/r18 Ahead)-

When he arrived home and got ready for bed, he saw Kurumi, Ravel and Ellen wearing sexy transparent nightgowns respectively in crimson red, yellow and silver colour , only Nia wearing a black nightgown that wasn't transparent.

"Isn't the usual arrangement, two persons per turn?" Ray asked.

They had arrangements where they make a two person group that will take turns every Saturday and Sunday. Their group is divided into Ellen and Ravel that handle his management work, Kurumi and Nia who work near his home and Artemis and Tsukuyomi, his weapon soul.

Only one left out is Shinano as she rarely have interest in sexual activity and very much prefer having her husband to cuddle with her to sleep while enjoying his touch on her tails and ears.

"Did you forget that you skipped last week because you are in the middle of a major breakthrough with your modification?" Kurumi said while dragging Ray from the door before making him sit on the bed.

"Oh! Now that I remembered… I did, at least all of you except Ravel have limited stamina or I wouldn't have time to sleep tonight."

Ravel, who creeped up from behind to hear her name called, slowly came to his left side to get a kiss. Ravel really likes kisses and always finds an opportunity to get one.

While Ravel is occupying Ray's face, Ellen and Kurumi are licking and sucking the dick and the testicles. Both struggle to fit in their mouth as the girth is almost the size of their fist. Nia however has to stave off the horniness with rotor and focus on drawing the scene with very fast speed on her latest tablet.

Under the assault of his experienced wives that had long discovered his weak spot, he tried to hold it longer as he grip the bedding but Ravel's sweet nectar-like saliva made him become dazed slightly. Kurumi who doubled her efforts since she can feel that the dick is twitching like it is about to splurt out the cum.

She stops licking to lubricate it and instead taking half the length into her tight throat, she can feel the twitch become harder as Ray's warm precum is lubricating her throat as she starts moving her mouth.

"Kurumi, Wait!... Ah…"

Ray didn't manage to stop Kurumi in time before he burst his load as he felt Kurumi was trying to fit his dick deeper into her throat as he was shooting his thick first load directly into her stomach to hog it from the others.

He should be able to hold it with his strong willpower but the sweet stuff mixed with Ravel's saliva made him lose grip of his control as he became hotter. Ravel must have acquired some sort of special aphrodisiac to have any effect on him at all.

"What did you feed me? It has to be a special drug to be this potent even against my dragon physique." Ray asked while Ravel push him to lay on the bed before lining up her ass with Ray's dick that coated with Kurumi's thick saliva before she rub it against her rear hole to prepare for the anal intercourse.

"Its.a.secret." Ravel whispers to Ray as she uses her hand and lines up Ray's dick to her ass before she releases her whole weight on top of Ray.

With the dick almost the length of her forearm and girth almost the size of her fist impaled her rectum, Ravel could only gasp in pleasure as her husband's manhood pushed her organs towards her diaphragm and caused her difficulty to breathe.

Ravel actually liked this ever since her first sex with Ray. Due to her Phenex clan Immortality power, even if she died, she will resurrect back unless her whole body is erased or etc. The Phenex clan is notorious for being into masochism which mainly contributed to their power.

Due to Ray's vitality and energy potent semen, Ravel is confirmed to regenerate her hymen after her body absorbs Ray's semen. Every virginal sex is a defloration sex for her and caused her to get into anal sex because the blood stains is annoying to clean on the beddings.

She loved rough anal sex with Ray because of his manhood and ferocity, her inside is literally being teared open but healed back immediately. She grew addicted to the pain and always sought to feel more. That's why she fed Ray an special aphrodisiac that is very effective on dragon to made them lose their mind and become a sex crazed beast although the effectiveness is weakened because Ray isn't a normal dragon but a Dragon God Hybrid.

Ravel touches the bump on her navel where the tip of Ray's dick is poking at. Ray, who finally gave up to resist, pushed her down with her front against the bed while the other three were watching while pleasuring themselves while waiting for their turn.

Ray then starts thrusting very fast and deep as he uses his arm to hold Ravel in a neck choke to severely limit the air entering her lungs. It proved to be very stimulating for her as her vagina was leaking profusely and she moaned… squealing in joy.

Ravel can feel the choke on her neck depriving her of oxygen. Her brain becomes weird with the constant wave of pleasure washing through it and the numbness from lacking oxygen. Her body short-circuited as she kept orgasming non-stop from the overwhelming pleasure. She after all is also affected by the aphrodisiac because she feeds to Ray through her kiss.

She feels the thrust become faster which indicates Ray is about to ejaculate. The choke becomes fully tight as the air is fully cut out, her lungs feel very constricted as Ray's thrust suddenly slows down but thrust deeper as it rearranges her organs with each thrust.

When Ray choked her fully, he could feel Ravel squeeze his dick harder, the wall of her rectum and anus clamped on him in a vice grip. The vacuum suction he felt also made him struggle to continue his rapid thrust. Ray persevered regardless and slowed the thrust but it made the thrust feel better as he managed to fit his dick to the base inside Ravel. His dick curved slightly to the left before he was unable to hold it back any longer.

"Ravel" Ray releases the choke and goes for another kiss as his dick pumps his second thick load of semen directly into her colon.

Ravel is totally unconscious as the choke deprived her oxygen and cause her to died and revived instantly as the wave of pleasure that previously numbed by the lack of oxygen into her brain now felt blanket as her back arched, her eyes rolled back and trembling before she fell back to the bed as Ray pulled out his Dick from Ravel that produce a satisfying pop from the vacuum suction of being released.

Ravel lay flat on her tummy as Ellen went and used her fingers to stretch the gaping asshole wider before she slurped the thread of the semen left over from the ejaculation.

Ray didn't become softer at all after he ravaged Ravel and instead set his sight on the other three. Due to his mind being clouded by the drug, his dick didn't turn flaccid and instead still throbbing with thick creamy white semen stained the tip.

Kurumi sees that the others are 'busy', so she reluctantly volunteers to provide Ray's dick with some relief. She uses her mouth to lick and suck to clean up the remaining semen in his urethra before she lays on the bed with her head facing Ray before she uses both fingers to stretch her mouth wide to invite Ray in.

"Come, Ray… I'm ready. This throat pussy is ready for you." Kurumi said as she stuck her tongue out to imitate licking something.

Ray didn't wait for more before he buried his dick as deep as he could into Kurumi's throat. He can feel Kurumi's tongue stimulating his shaft. He can see the bulge on Kurumi's throat which made him hornier before he started thrusting with medium pace.

Ray lowers his body to hug her waist before he uses his mouth to stimulate her clitoris and in turn make her vagina wetter as fluid starts leaking out from both the deepthroat and Ray stimulates her vagina.

The sound of the slap of Ray slammed his dick down to the base against Kurumi's throat becoming wetter and sloppier as her saliva flowed out of her mouth. Ray could feel that he is about to ejaculate, raise up his body and start thrusting faster as she felt Kurumi tightened her throat.

"Kurumi… I'm… going to… cum!" Ray said before he did his final thrust as deep as he could and he felt Kurumi's arm hug his thighs to stop Ray from moving as his dick throbbing inside Kurumi's throat pumping out his load.

After he pulled out, Kurumi flipped her body to have her tummy facing the bed before she sucked out the leftover semen and swallowed them in a gulp before opening it wide for Ray to see.

Kurumi at first fine with normal sex but soon became interested in blowjob and deepthroat. Ever since then, she always prefer those than normal vanilla sex.

She also recently became interested in bondage which made Ray feel worried if he was going to be strapped on weird devices. When he found out that she is the one interested in wearing a latex suit and being tied, he felt relieved as he was spared from femdom S&M play.

"Do you feel relieved yet? Your dick didn't look like it was raging anymore, hopefully the drug had worn off." Kurumi asked.

Ravel is still out cold while Nia is rapidly drawing on her tablet while occasionally moaning as he can see that she turns the rotor to max.

"That Ravel forgot that Nia and Ellen will not be able to withstand you under the drug effect." Kurumi complained as she used both her hands to slowly stroke his dick and occasionally squeeze it to check its hardness.

"You should be fine with Ellen or Nia now." Kurumi said before she gave Ray a kiss and moved to the side to give way to the other.

Ellen who are waiting for her turn quickly move forward to take this turn since Nia is still busy with drawing sex scene. Kurumi moved to Nia to use her finger to play with Nia's vagina which made Nia release a low whimper and almost dropped her tablet. The pleasure from the rotor plus Kurumi's sudden pinched her clitoris drove her to orgasm as a small jet of fluid sprayed out of her vagina before she fell to her back.

"Finally it's my turn, my beloved husband." Ellen said as she locked her arm on Ray's neck.

Ellen rarely being this affectionate outside of the bedroom. She always puts on a serious business-like face even inside their home but once inside the bedroom, she is even more clingy than a kitten once she is on Ray. She prefer slow and passionate sex as she spend as much time to stay connected to Ray and refused to let go even after he ejaculated until the morning come with Ray's dick inside her.

Even when she is asleep, she will hug Ray in a vice grip and refuse to let go and the only way to separate himself is to wake her up by using Dimension Shift which she hates if he did it. However, with the pairing up with Ravel and established that only Saturday and Sunday they can have sex, she slowly remove those habits since she is no longer the only one want to have sex with her husband.

Ray lay on the clean part of the bed before Ellen mounted him in a cowgirl position and started humping on him. She needs to be extra careful since Ray's full length will pierced her womb which is one of her weaknesses. She then feels something inserted into her ass which is vibrating at high speed.

"That should help you finish faster, Nia is craving for the dick too." Kurumi said as she continued to fingering Nia from behind her.

Nia no longer draws on her tablet as her face is completely blushed as her left hand is covering her mouth to muffle the moan while her right hand is pinching her nipples. Kurumi is just behind her, licking Nia's right ear while her both hands are exploring Nia's body.

Ellen feels her inside churned when Ray's dick becomes harder and bigger inside her. The previous state, she still can bend the dick to fit her insides but now it has hardened like a pole. In her moment of lapse, she forgot to not fall fully and caused the dick to be pierced all the way into her womb or uterus which instantly caused her to orgasm as she fell on Ray's chest to gasp for air.

Ray raises her hip slightly to the air before he starts thrusting his own hip while giving Ellen a French kiss as she moans each time Ray thrust into her womb. Her hole also became so wet that a loud slapping noise echoed in the room.

"Look, that's you next. His dick will reach all the way here." Kurumi traced her finger from Nia's vagina to her navel while she whispered to the ahegao faced Nia as Kurumi just made her orgasm the second time.

"I'm going to make your hole here really sensitive for Ray to blow your brain away."

Nia who loses all her strength cannot resist Kurumi who just turned sadistic. Kurumi purposely makes Nia very sensitive since she is already quite sensitive to begin with. When Ray is fucking her for real, she would turn insane as her body keep being forced to climax non stop.

"Here, your own juice. See how much of it keeps leaking out. Are you perhaps imagining Ray ravaging your body like Ravel just like the doujin you drew?"

Nia could only act obedient and hope Kurumi's sadistic act wouldn't escalate. She obediently sucks the fingers that are soaked with her vagina juice while looking at Ray impaling Ellen's womb that causes Ellen to moan louder and louder. She saw Ray's dick twitched before he almost took out his dick then he did a final thrust deep into Ellen and gave her a womb with a big creampie. Ellen also climaxed right after Ray started ejaculating.

"See, it's your turn now Nia."Kurumi whispers to her right ear.

"He also looks very turned on by my little performance for him." Kurumi then pinch and twists Nia's nipple before Nia feels her third orgasm arrived and the feeling of dread grows bigger.

This is her third orgasm and the next one after each became faster as her vagina is now very sensitive that Ray's next thrust would probably cause her to orgasm again. She feels the ache from being forced to orgasm in rapid succession but she cannot deny that she dislikes it. Kurumi has been training her body like this lately.

Ellen who had a satisfying creampie moved to the side with Ravel who seems to already awake and now spectating.

Kurumi went up and took a chair toward them, then led Ray to the chair before taking his dick all the way to the base but it didn't stay long in her throat before she took it out and smiled at Nia.

"Come, I even helped you lubricate his dick to make it easier for you since your hole still very tight." Kurumi then pulled Nia to Ray and made her climb to his lap.

Nia can see Ray's dick reached over her womb when Kurumi lined it on her body. She can feel her inside squirmed as she knew this will make her orgasm again if she takes it all in.

"Get started Nia. Didn't you always draw the heroin in your doujin to use you like a cocksleeve? Your doujin always have the girl treated like a toy to satisfy the sexual need of the MC." Kurumi said before she moved closer to Nia's ear.

"Could it be, you wish to be treated the same by Ray?" Kurumi whispers but loud enough that Ray can hear and become very aroused.

Nia usually is quite reserved and usually only like a vanilla sex. He didn't know that she would have such a secret fetish hidden deep inside her.

"W.. what are you talking about! You are the one who keeps doing these weird things to me… you- ngh…" Nia saw Kurumi lined up Ray's dick to her tight pussy hole that kept squirming as if it carve the meat rod to skewer her and messed her senseless.

"You didn't deny it huh, then… here you go. Fuck her senseless dear husband, this shut-in wouldn't need her leg next morning anyway." Kurumi starts whispering to Ray like a devilish succubus tempting its victim.

Ray however looks at Nia since he wouldn't force his wife unless they themselves wanted. He is looking at Nia for her decision while his dick slowly gets sheathed inside Nia which is convulsing wildly as if she is having an orgasm.

"Oh her fourth orgasm, she climaxed immediately." Kurumi said with a surprise but playful expression.

"Isn't it good, don't you want Ray to mess up your inside, let him fuck you senseless? Isn't this what you always wanted? I saw your hidden stash, you yearn for this don't you, you closet pervert!"

"Fine! I am interested, just fuck me already…" Nia said as she hid her face in shame, she didn't expect even her most secretive stash of bdsm, bondage, pet play etc which contains the more embarrassing genre was found by Kurumi and now her husband.

She always maintains an image of a normal person at the surface and hides her perversion from Ray. She secretly is a closet masochist that like genre like pet play, slave play, or even exhibitionist as she sometimes secretly didn't wear anything under her clothes when within their area which includes their home, other buildings and the underground city.

Kurumi noticed this and helped her fellow sisters to be brave and show to Ray about her preference. She is too afraid that Ray would dislike her if she is a pervert. Haah her and her insecurity, Kurumi didn't understand why Nia would think of this when Ravel herself like snuff plays herself. Like what is more perverted than literally choked to death mid sex?

Seeing that Nia finally admitted to Ray made her feel very satisfied that she achieved her goal. She wanted to join Ellen and Ravel at the side but her job isn't done yet.

"I'm glad you are finally honest Nia… There, she gave her permission. Fuck her like a cocksleeve she always wanted, let her feel your might for thinking you are incapable." Kurumi whispers to Ray which everyone is able to hear and Ravel facepalms.

"Wai-" Nia can even finish her word before Ray starts thrusting her hard. Her vagina that just had the 4th orgasm is still aching and feel weird like her brain is being jolted by electric.

"Although our husband is a dragon hybrid, a dragon is a dragon and they have their dignity as a superior one. Especially the alpha, you egged him on and he is basically driven by his instinct right now due to the drug effect." Ravel said while masturbating while wishing it was her in Nia's position.

"What is the drug anyway? I don't think it is aphrodisiac since dragons are immune to those."

"It's an instinct enhancer, it isn't an aphrodisiac and instead a performance booster drug especially for dragons to boost their draconic instinct. The one I gave Ray is undiluted. It also feels weird when my instinct is heightened."

You still have more of it or perhaps normal aphrodisiacs."

"I have an aphrodisiac if you want… here." Ravel magically made a small vial appear and gave Kurumi.

Nia on the other side is being used like a toy by Ray. He used both his hands to lift Nia's butt while Nia's arm locked on Ray's neck with her leg both pointed toward the ceiling. Ray is using her like how he would if he is using his custom made life-like and 1:1 scale homunculus sex do-... sexual relief doll that he bought from Amazon.

Needless to say each thrust is piercing into the depths of her womb and still could not fully fit his dick, leaving around an inch more before reaching the base. Since this experience will be quite painful since its a large transition from normal slow and steady vanilla sex to hardcore womb fucking sex.

Due to that, as a kind hearted person, Kurumi fed her fellow sister the aphrodisiac to make her forget the pain and get drowned into the forbidden pleasure that will corrupt her preference and be reborn again and be open about her preference instead of worrying that Ray would dislike her.

Ray feels like something is wrong about him. He closed his eyes and used the homuncu-... Amazon bought relief doll like he would usually do. He feel like he is forgetting something but his body and instinct feel like it is controlling his body instead of himself.

He looks at the doll's features, it looks bigger than the usual one he uses and the hair is way too short… He feels like he is looking at Nia. When suddenly it kisses him, then his mind becomes clear and he recognizes it's actually Nia in his hand and she looks like she's gone crazy.

Her eyes is unfocused and slowly raised and almost rolled into the eyes socket, her tongue is hanging from her mouth as she wanted to form a word but each of his thrust interrupted her breath and made her gasped as she moaned instead and her pussy is dripping wet as she seems to be climaxing non stop like a leaking faucet.

"You lose Ellen." Ray heard Kurumi say from the side, where the bed was located.

"Kuh! My strawberry shortcake…"

"It's me and Kurumi left. She bet 10 to 15 times and I bet 16 to 20 times. The aphrodisiac is quite potent after all."

"He climaxed 10 times now. I wonder if I should try it too… She looked like she enjoyed it very much."

"Need me to help you Kurumi? I might prefer being on the receiving end but I am also skillful enough to help you if you want."

"No thanks, I only allow my dear husband to dominate me." Kurumi said as she raised her aura which Ravel nodded understandably and continued watching.

"That's the 11th one, I wonder if she would get dehydrated instead." Ravel said and Ellen asked if she should give Nia some water for rehydration.

Back to Ray, he ignored the other and looked at Nia. Even if she looks unkempt with her hair all over the place and saliva pouring out of her mouth, she looks very beautiful and mesmerising that Ray is able to feel his dick harden like it is going to burst.

"Nia" Ray called, and Nia's eyes became slightly focused on Ray.

"Ah ha hangh… R.. Ray… hard..er I want harder… more… harder… my womb itchy… harder…"

Seeing that she is out of service, Ray simply thrust harder to relieve her itchiness and made her feel better as he wanted to quickly finish this and punish Kurumi and Ravel for making Nia like this. Ray shut Nia's mouth with a French kiss as he thrust harder which caused Nia to moan harder as her eyes totally rolled back.

"Ha hau ha ha my.. oh it hiyt my womb… ah ha ha oh it fels gudsh ngh ha." Nia moaned as Ray kissed her.

When Ray felt his build up about to explode, he lifted Nia higher before letting her fall on his hip as he thrusted his him that managed to stretch her inside and fit the remaining dick down to the base.

Nia convulsed as her pussy sprayed her orgasm juice out as she felt choked as her diaphragm was being pushed up and couldn't breath. Her brain is overloaded by the signals from the orgasm, creampie and asphyxiation which made her only able to to hug Ray harder as his brain is having a rage quit.

When he finished ejaculating, he slowly let her down on the floor and sat in a w shape. She sees Ray's dick then proceeds to lick it clean before showing the semen to Ray then swallows it like a good girl she learned from the doujin she read.

"Am I a good pet daddy?" Nia suddenly say which cause Ray to have conflicting feeling although his dick simply harder with his near infinite stamina and the fact this activity isn't even as energy intensive as previously.

Nia who saw the meat rod that fucked her senseless stand up again and immediately licking it like she was sucking on Ambrosia of the legend. Ray however quickly stands from the chair while taking the dick with him. She then used her hand to scooping the cum that was leaking out of her gaping hole before slurping it down with an intoxicated face.

For this moment onwards until morning, Ray punish both Ravel and Kurumi and gave them non stop rough sex until morning come for using aphrodisiac and influencing him to do such thing to Nia.

Both didn't have any sleep until morning as cum stained all over the bed as Kurumi was on the side being stuffed full on all fuckable hole with around 8 round while Ravel who is a little special due to her high regeneration and his vitality filled cum keep pumping into her, she could not get tired even if her body is totally sore as Ray keep fucking her pussy that will regenerate her hymen when given some time.

Ray of course alternating between her anal and vagina to let the hymen regenerate before he give her a defloration sex which broke their last recored of 8 time from the last record of 5 times.

"Daddy… kiss… uogh ngh" Ravel who has her mind regressed or broken somehow also calls him daddy. At least Nia had stopped calling him daddy and recovered an hour after their sex or he will develop new fetishes if this continues. Last thing he would want to become is sugar daddy.

"Daddy cruel, daddy broke Ravel hymen but then immediately fuck Ravel's ass. Ravel pussy feel lonel- ngh" Ray choke her again as he thrust faster.

Instead of feeling panic for being choked, she smiled crazily as her eyes rolled back as asphyxiation slowly snuff her out before her Phenex flame washed over her and fully resurrected.

Ravel purposely calls Ray daddy because she knows it's the switch to make him do her rougher. She feels her intestine almost fully stuffed with Ray's cum and almost reaches her stomach.

"Wuv yu dadd- ngh"

Ray pulls out his dick that caked in semen before forcing it down Ravel's throat that shuts her down to give him a peace of mind. He actually did it, Ray thinks. He actually get played by his wives in their ploy to make him have sex with them till morning which infuriated him slightly as he need his focus inorder to do modification on Zenith. As an exquisite piece of creation, he cannot do any modifications or maintenance on Zenith if he cannot have the proper focus which makes him have to take a holiday today.

He felt Ravel slapping his leg, asking for him to let her go as she was about to run out of breath. Ray pretends to release before he thrust harder into Ravel as his lungs made her suck harder that create a very strong vacuum suction before he cummed again before he released her and another wave of Phenex flame washed over her and fully resurrected.

"Daddy very forced, Ravel like it very much." Ravel said she immediately raise her head to his lap and start taking his dick in again.

"Haah, will this ever end…" Ray sighed as they continued until afternoon when the maids came in to do cleaning.

Ray feel awkward to continue as the maids is very disciplined and well trained by Ellen and Scáthach. They act as if Ray isn't even having sex as they start cleaning.

Ray decided to stop and Shifted his wives and him into the bath to clean them up using kinesis to make them stand and clean their outer body. Everyone soon wakes up and cleans themselves up before joining Ray to soak in the hot water.

-(Lemon/r18 end)-

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(Note: I have to spend a lot of time researching for Zenith's creation and extending the time but the r18 scene took way longer, like more than 10 combined hours to complete while research and information gathering for Zenith is around 6 hours. UwU I got horny too while writing the r18 part.

All his wives(and Trap wife) already have their r18 scene, only Shinano left but I wanna keep it for wayyy later. Probably after Ray defeat Great Red. I also still dont know what to do with the dragon trio for now. Ophis... my mind say daughter but Moi pl wanna add sugar at front Reeeee shiz that doujin ruined my preference.

Also the thing about Ddraig, I did rise her rank to lover but lover is two level below concubine which is Ravel previous Rank which now is harem/wife. For Albion... idk cuz I cannot find an idea or event that will make him/her to accept Ray like Ddraig. Ray will not be forceful since Albion is very cooperative... maybe next world then.

I'm going to warp up DxD soon probably after two big battle after storming Hades place and maybe snag Tiamat cuz why not

Anyway the r18 is my compensation for delaying.)

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