AN: Fuck it, I'm going to do all the upcoming things with smaller chapters. It would be way too chaotic to throw every bit in. Plus, the Gaia meeting would be way too info dumpy and heavy anyways.

Chapter 33: Just a prank bro

It was a surreal experience for two of Issei's clones that have registered in the Magician's council. It was even stranger for the two clones to have started their own Magician's association of their own. It was simply insanity that they have deliberately made their own associations rivals with each other due to a suggestion by the resident Uzumaki Prank Queen.

There are a number of magician associations across the world with different goals, objectives, members, specialties and magic systems. There are Norse magic, black magic, white magic, fairy magic, Alchemy, elemental magic, summoning magic, spirit magic, runic magic, teleportation magic etc…

Merlin Ambrosius, the Merlin from this world's legends had studied demonic energy and their magics, making the vast majority of the magic system used by most humans. The two major types are western and European magics, originated from Europe and Asia respective, obviously. Many magics were also derived from devils, gods and other religions.

The current director of the Magician's Council is one Mephisto Pheles, the devil that contracted to the first Georg Faust and remained in the human world since while heading his own association 'Grauzauberer'. In Issei's opinion, it probably ranked 7/10 in the chuuniness scale. Interestingly enough, this was the devil that reincarnated the Dragon King Tannin.

The prank was rather elaborate. It involved proxies and a good amount of manipulation, but eventually, it resulted in quite a few magicians from various associations being gathered in a single town in Spain using some pretence such as 'trading' magic systems etc…

This was where the magician contractors for Rias and Sona, Nicholas Dumbledore and Tom Marvolo Riddle (Both Issei Clones), managed to make every one of them bump into each other at some magically warded and deserted town square.

From independent magicians, to the cabal 'Golden Dawn', to Mephisto's association, to the magic item producer 'Rosenkreuzer', magicians from the Norse faction and even the Khaos Brigade affiliated 'Nilrem'. It was like a powder keg waiting to explode, only, with more magic.

"What in blazes are you doing here Dumb-a-door?! Did you come all this way to interfere with my business again?"

"You make it sound like I have nothing better to do other than bothering a child with a hair-trigger temper such as yourself. I'll have you know that the magicians of 'Rosenkreuzer' were rather pleased with my magic amplifying crystal, not that you could ever recreate it by yourself."

"Arrogant old fool! I have already achieved immortality be recreating your Philosopher's stone! Do not think that some paltry amplifier would make you a match for my arcane might!"

"Even if I was never a match in terms of power I do seem to recall always transfiguring you as a chicken after I beat you. Which, I'm sure you recall, was every single encounter ever."

Such was the fake 'banter' between the Issei clones who were trolling the magicians gathered around and attracting everyone's attention.

"Excuse me Lord Vol- I mean Mr. Riddle. Perhaps we should take this conversation somewhere else. I'm certain your dealings with our organisation would be much more favourable now that we have just heard of your Philosopher's stone, I believe that we should remove ourselves from the rest of the rabble to conclude our business." A magician from 'Nilrem' said to the Issei clone.

"Silence weakling!" 'Tom' hissed while focusing a small bit of his immense chakra, magic and killing intent. Even at 1% of his maximum chakra (1% was over 4 million units after training), Issei would be more than a match for an ordinary god. Needless to say, the magician was too frozen to speak further as he struggled to even get up to his knees and breathe. "Do. Not. Speak out of turn until I allow you to do so, do we have an understanding?" 'Tom' released his power over the man, who nodded furiously like the simpering coward he became the moment someone so powerful made him realise his mortality.

"It is poor form to fall back on brute force Tom, what happened to your Slytherin cunning?" 'Nicholas Dumbledore' playing the wise old mentor said in disappointment.

"Ha! As if a professor who chose to set a young orphan's closet on fire has any right to claim any ineffectiveness of intimidation." The fake dark lord scoffed.

"To be fair, I was having a bad day. My lemon drops were stolen by house elves."

"House elves don't steal your diabetes inducing sugary treats! Do not think you can fool Lord Vo- *ahem* Tom Riddle with your paltry excuses!" Tom shouted while releasing more magic across the atmosphere, bringing all but the leaders of the magician associations to their knees. Even then, most of the leaders were experiencing issues with the sheer raw power that the clone had brought forth.

"Calm yourself Tom, these gentlemen, and women here have gathered together for civil discussions with one another, do not vent your anger on them. It is by coincidence, or fate, that all our business is in this city. Personally I choose to believe that someone had manipulated the situation somehow." The fake headmaster of Hogwarts said sternly.

"Your former mentor is correct. I would prefer you release your aura before my subordinates choke to death or else I will expel you from the Magician's council registry." Mephisto said calmly, eyes filled with killing intent as well.

"Hmph! Very well. But do not think that I believe your threats to hold any weight over me. It is only because of the council's usefulness that I do not simply make tear it down myself." The clone released his aura once again.

"Damn… does every single meeting I sign up for go horribly wrong? Such misfortune!" An independent magician complained.

"Ah! I believe there was an anime character that uses that phrase a lot! Kamijou Touma, I believe." 'Dumbledore' cheerfully commented despite the previously tense atmosphere.

"I know. Me and my DnD group binged watched that anime. Got us interested in magic in the first place. It took running into some dead magician's corpse from a teleportation spell gone wrong that we learnt magic together haha… Ah right, where are my manners, David Brown, the rest of my buddies made me draw straws when I was told to meet some other independent guy."

Little did David know that the 'guy' was actually another of Issei's clone masquerading as some other magician.

"Have you seen the one you were to meet then?" Some Golden Dawn member asked the David. The magician wasn't interested in David, but rather, the fact he was talking to what seems to be one of two magicians around that could be the terrifying Tom Riddle. After all, Mephisto and Nicholas Dumbledore standing together was much safer that standing near the dark lord type of character.

Now, the thing about the magicians was that they are very research heavy people. It was obvious with Archer (Vigilante Issei) that he was using magic to be so effective. Many were investigating the possibility of reincarnation, and with two names that were literally ripped off Harry Potter, which many magicians found to be rather comical, they were understandably alerted by the two powerful newcomers.

Nicholas Dumbledore registered as an expert in many magic's, particularly runes and alchemy. Tom Marvolo Riddle registered similarly, but with a focus on Black Magics and alchemy. The two clones had typically learnt some magic from Rias and Sona, before proceeding to master many typical magics and their own Potterverse style magics. They were tested on their claims, which the both of them more than proved their worth in the registration with their fake magical signatures.

Most magicians believed there was credibility to those reincarnations theories when both of the clones went and transfigured everything with nothing but a wand. No magic circles, no advanced looking calculations, just a wave and done.

For the few weeks that they were registered there was much gossip and interest in them. Now, it would only grow as the both of them began recruiting.

"No, not at all. I think he bailed." David said.

"Then perhaps he or the group he belongs to had set us up to meet this way." 'Dumbledore' suggested to the crowd, which got many to be swayed to that line of thinking.

"If so, then it is likely the coward hoped for some casualties. It would seem that I will have to teach them the meaning of suffering for daring to use me." 'Tom' says with cold (fake) fury while unleashing killing intent (light).

"Nonetheless, we all have our business to conclude so perhaps that we should get this drama over with before this ends in a fight." Mephisto Pheles says, while looking at 'Tom' with veiled disdain. Considering that 'Tom' reminded him of the Original Satans that he hated intensely… well, he wanted to have little to do with him.

"A fight? That reminds me that since you're here I may as well prove my superiority over you, old man." 'Tom' says to 'Dumbledore'.

"Oh come now Tom, this isn't the time for it."

"Um- Mister Dumbledore. I came here with a prototype pocket dimension maker, it's a lot more efficient than the one's devils use and well, it scans the local environment and copies it to design the dimension." A nervous looking magician said. This nervous magician was a plant, another of Issei's clones that 'so happened' to be there. Just as planned of course.

'Tom' promptly summoned the device out of the clone's hands and operated it easily.

"How did you-" The clone stated to say before being cut-off.

"You left the instructions on a post it note and stuck it on the top you simpering fool!" 'Tom' insults.

This caused many of the magicians to laugh in amusements at the sheer silliness of including instructions on a post-it note.

When the pocket dimension was set up, Tom continued, "You will not be running away old fool, the rest of these weaklings may as well witness my magical might as I finally best you in combat."

"*Sigh* Very well, my boy. I suppose I shouldn't have expected time to temper your bloodlust and arrogance." Dumbledore said in a faux grandfatherly tone.

It is a great thing that the trust skill combined with the [Deception] skill works so well together or the powerful devil Mephisto would have noticed the deception.

In the end, mountains were lifted with jutsu's disguised as magic and tossed around. Huge Fire and Water dragons were formed by 'Tom Riddle' and 'Nicholas Dumbledore' respectively as Tom used Madara's [Majestic Destroyer Flame] against Dumbledore's [Wall of Water], the sheer size of the flames and water dwarfing large mountains were controlled with wand movements and shaped into dragons.

Needless to say, all the magicians were impressed as the two animated elemental chakra constructs battled it out.

Honestly, the battle only looked tense and even because it was expertly choreographed. There was also plenty of transfiguration, curses and charms that affected huge tracks of land that caused a lot of panic with the spectators. The amount of natural disasters they created through sheer power from earthquakes, twisters, infernos and floods had clearly struck fear in the hearts of the magicians. Each and every 'dark' curses and charms had caused massive destruction, the sheer amount of attacks flung looked as if it would never end.

Then the both of them decided it would be a draw for now, while inwardly laughing about how well they trolled the magicians.

On another note, 'Dumbledore' made friends with half the independents and many magician associations, including Mephisto's. 'Tom' had the other independents flock to him like their new god, while 'Nilrem' looked like they needed to talk to their superiors further and ran off.

It was only after the fact that both Issei's clones realised that they essentially are running the Order of the Phoenix 2.0 and Death Eaters 2.0 at the exact same time.

They had just added on to their work load due to a somewhat productive prank.

The both of them decided to blame Kushina, besides, she'll probably want the credit anyway.

To that end, they placed a charm on her tongue to ensure that everything she ate and drank tasted like tomatoes for an entire day. Clearly, everything was her fault. But sadly, Issei would never learn to not take Kushina's pranking suggestions. Hence, the cycle continues.

Elsewhere…

Sona Sitri was hard at work in the student council room when suddenly her sister, Serafall Leviathan, called her up on a magic circle.

"Onee-sama, what do you want?"

"Aww, come on So-tan! Why do you have to be so formal?"

Sona simply stared in a serious manner in retaliation.

"Mou… fine. I just got a call from Mephi-tan and I was worried because your contracted magician is some Dark Lord."

Sona took a moment to process the information before hanging up on her sister. She took out her phone, and rang Issei Hyoudou's personal number.

The rest of the student council exited the room when Sona started to shout at him for over an hour.

Little did she know that Issei's Artificial Spirit AI companion, Marina Arusu, went ahead and started impersonating him just after ten minutes. Issei couldn't blame his Skynet AI spirit companion when she ranted at him for passing the buck. Ah well, better to be yelled at by your moe AI than a stern devil.