Chapter 864 A Call from Heaven

"Resetting back to Level 1? That's going to be a high hurdle for her... Well, if Line didn't come today, that is." Medusa commented.

"Setting that aside for now, how's the Dungeon's reaction to your Divinity?", asked Yoruichi.

Medusa shook her head, "Nothing. It's as you've said. The Dungeon has gone silent. Should we continue our testing and have Hestia-sama and Artemis-sama release their Divinity?"

Yoruichi went quiet and started rubbing her chin in contemplation. After a few moments, she came up with a decision, "Let's not. It's too risky to go further when things are starting to get hot."

It all started when Irina lost control of her powers while testing it and ended up releasing her entire aura that could provoke the Dungeon. However, nothing happened. Sona consulted Serafall and Yoruichi regarding this and asked the girls training in the Dizara Dungeon to stop holding back and release everything they could against the monsters. But even with that, there was still nothing.

Finally, Yoruichi released her own aura and even that did nothing to the Dungeon. She thought that a Divinity would finally provoke a reaction from the Dungeon, but there was also no reaction to Medusa, which put them in this awkward position.

Of course, Yoruichi tried contacting the mysterious voice of the Dungeon, but there was no answer. For now, Yoruichi asked the girls to train without holding anything back while Kuroka watched them in case any emergencies were to emerge, "This might be the freedom that the Dungeon was giving us."

Yoruichi then returned her sights to the irregular monsters that were flooding this floor, "Let's not waste this opportunity to finally put to the test everything we've been learning."

And Yoruichi guessed it correctly, while in the Dungeon, they were being provided with cover from Chaos' prying eyes, and right now, the mysterious being was currently suppressing the Dungeon's activity so no mutations could happen.

But just as the three of them were about to dive into the sea of monsters, Yoruichi's communicator began vibrating, "Hmmm?"

She stopped in her tracks and pulled out her smartphone and saw Kuroka trying to reach her, "What's up?"

"Kisuke connected, nya~ He said he wanted to say something important to us, nya."

Hearing her words, Serafall and Medusa got closer to see the screen.

Immediately after, a feed showing Kisuke's appearance covered the screen, "Yo~ How are you all doing? It seems that things are starting to heat up over there."

"Things are about to get interesting. Though I'd prefer it if Sona and the girls could intercept them. After seeing the tournament, all of them wanted to participate."

Kisuke chuckled, "Is that so? Then give them this opportunity. It'll be good practice before the main stage."

Yoruichi's eyes slightly widened, "So you've already resolved the restriction problem? Is that what this call is about?"

"Exactly~! I've finally analyzed and modified the Leveling blueprint that I've received, so I'm sending it to the camp's database. I made it so that Hestia-sama and Artemis-sama could use it to overwrite their blessings."

"Will we finally be able to Level up safely?" Serafall asked curiously. Even though it may seem useless to her on the surface, the 'Soul Improvement and Purification' of this world's blessing was extremely useful for stabilizing her Super Devil Form.

However, Kisuke shook his head, "Nope. I've removed the entirety of the Leveling system and only left the part where the world's restrictions won't affect us."

"I thought you already analyzed it?"

"I did, but I'm still skeptical of my own analysis. This affects the Soul directly after all. I just can't easily approve of it. Besides, from what I can see, it's too artificial. This is just like forcibly filling in the blanks and gaps in the Soul to increase its strength. Still, it's without a doubt a very sophisticated process and I learned a lot from it. Give me some more time and I'll create a simplified version that'll allow the practitioner to shape their Soul to their own needs. It'll take longer to get stronger, but it'd be more natural and compatible."

Serafall gave him a thumbs up and said, "I think that's a lot better~ Take all the time you need!"

"Say, could you modify it further to have a Level 1 restriction when needed?", asked Yoruichi. Right now, instead of Leveling up, the group chose to reset their Level back to 1 as the training benefit that it gave is a lot better than the improvements they'd get when Leveling up. The harder the restrictions, the better it was to practice finer control, which will carry over no matter how strong they became.

"I can, but not right now since I'm busy. I'll work on it once I'm done here. By the way, I also finished stabilizing the 'World Gate'. If you can send someone over to test it out, let me know."

Yoruichi thought about it for a moment and said, "Everyone has momentum right now and it'd be too dangerous to test it out with Claire. We'll decide about it later."

"Got it. If I'm busy on my side, I'll send someone to meet them."

The five of them then started talking about random things like how their day-to-day lives are going on for about half an hour with Hestia, Artemis, and the kids joining in the middle of it.

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"Urahara-san, this way." While talking to his family, Kisuke got called and turned around to see the smiling Dulio, "Got it. Give me a second." Turning to his smartphone, Kisuke bid his farewell, "I'm hanging up. I'll call again later."

While walking through a bright white hall, Dulio apologized, "I'm sorry for interrupting when you're having fun."

"It's fine. I can always call them back."

Right now, the two of them are within the highest and deepest part of the Angels' base, the First Heaven, and Dulio was currently leading Kisuke towards the innermost part of the place.

A few minutes later, the two of them finally saw massive and grandiose double doors that seemed to be made out of white stone. In front of it was an extremely beautiful woman with curly blonde hair and a voluptuous figure, and was known as the most beautiful woman in Heaven, the only remaining one of the Four Great Seraphs and the current leader of Heaven, Gabriel.

"Thank you, Dulio. I will take it from here."

Dulio bowed down before turning around and nodding towards Kisuke and leaving the two of them.

"Shall we go?" asked Gabriel with her angelic voice.

"I know I'm just repeating myself at this point, but are you really sure about this?"

Gabriel smiled bright and answered, "Yes. Michael, Azazel, and Ajuka trust you and I want to do the same."

Kisuke couldn't help but smile wryly, "But this is our first time meeting, though? You don't seem to be the naive type, so any other reason?"

Gabriel's smile grew wider, "I'm not naive? Aside from my fellow Seraphs, you're the first one to think of me that way. Even Azazel thinks I'm a naive person. I may not look like it, but I have a good eye for people. It's the reason why I was the chosen one to remain here."

'From the rumors, I'm hearing, she may be naive in a different manner, but definitely not as a leader. I heard that Heaven has been clearing out spies and traitors on a large scale. Is it her doing?'

Gabriel didn't wait for Kisuke's reply and turned towards the door, touching it. Light momentarily shone from her palm before the whole area began to tremble as the massive doors dragged themselves open.

What Kisuke immediately saw in the distance were enormous wheels of different sizes dotted with innumerable eyes intersecting each other.

Gabriel turned to Kisuke once again and said, "Welcome to the core of the Sacred Gear System, the Ophanim."