Chapter 10 - Hogwarts
Having said my goodbyes to my family I had finally got myself a rather private compartment on the Hogwarts express.
Otti, my Norse raven had chosen to leave for the castle himself and travel by air. I was all alone and free to practice my Mind magics for the rest of the journey. I had recently started using the knowledge from other branches of magic to enhance my mind's magic into a completely new format. I was using aspects of puppetry and extended control to make my subconsciousness access the Magical Wiki and read things in the background.
It sounds like a good approach but even in theory it kinda sucks. The subconscious mind is rather occupied with keeping bodily functions happening you see. So far I have managed to make my brain make me have dreams in which I can read the Magical wiki. This meant that I now had around 4 to 5 hours of magical wiki research rather than dreamless sleep on my magical pillow.
I was again in my mind, trying for the 234th time to bypass some unneeded functions to contribute some passive processing into the Magical wiki.
Before I could even attempt to fiddle with anything in my mind space, I was dragged through a portal that had opened in my mind. How? Where? when and all such questions had me lost in thought till I saw a distorted figure in the all-too-black void I was familiar with.
"Welcome, young traveler. To. This one's. Humble aboard" spoke the figure in a manner that made it seem like multiple people's speeches had been stitched together to make that one sentence.
"I am the one known as the Developer. I have received multiple reports and errors on your systems past and present. The completely useless system before and now a rather restrictive system now. The idea was that the multi-chain jump Games would be done with various systems in various worlds as a way to make a dead Gamer's soul experience heaven." This person was reminding me of the Sevens for GOT more and more. The voice and tone changes in every other sentence were creepy.
"I have offered some rather lucky loot and world circumstances to make the game more enjoyable for you and an easy place to grow accustomed to being a gamer. The previous world generation algorithm was meant to be used for experienced gamers playing with upgraded or 'store bought' systems on hellish difficulty." the developer continues.
"It seems to me now that with the lucky loot and world circumstances you have found this world to be to your liking and have even found a game end goal. The reason why I am here and speaking to you is to inform you that the last compartment on the Hogwarts Express can be used as one of the world jump points available. 9 choices have been granted to you for the next 3 world jumps and 2 powers each to go with them. You can also, however, choose to half your current power and take that with you. The world jump will not be saved until a world jump point has been found." With that last bit of information given to me the world brightened and I was again in my compartment.
Except, there was a person here that had not been here previously. Trying to distract myself from the immersion-breaking shitty developer, I focus on the person instead.
"How can I help..." I was cut off before I could even question her.
"You know me well enough black, you also somehow know of my affliction and circumstances." Klare refers to my insight on something rather private and personal for her, casually.
"You somehow know of my visions black and my visions showed me that with no uncertainty. You happen to be the one thing I have clear visions about and every vision since the past week has been about you." she sounded like this confrontation would be of no consequence and it was...true.
I had thought about using Klare as a companion as Klare needed regular feeding and I was immune to forced blood magic. It was the best companion pairing I found and I was certainly going to acquire her for my emerging new Pantheon. There needed to be an opposing god to me in my pantheon, like Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, or like Loki and Thor, etc.
In this case, however, Klare would be my biggest opposition in the light and my biggest supporter behind the scenes.
It would be a win-win.
Why is opposition even needed in the first place, well it's because my enemies will try to use Klare against me thus showing their hand too early.
This is all still a long while away.
The problem was that I was completely blank at the moment and had no idea how to deal with her. My mind was still trying to suppress the fact that none of this was actually real and these people were, in fact, not people. I really could have done without the knowledge, just knowing that piece of information makes it hard for one to see the people as people.
Argh!
This was pissing me off.
"I know you care about little in this world black and I lost the delusions of you being my prince charming in the first week of dreams. You can, and I know you will, help me with whatever I want in return for playing homemaker for your budding Cult. Consider me Cultist Zero." The things she knew scared me. After all, I was going through the trouble of mind magics to protect my secrets from being found but here I was.
"How about I help you with what you're currently struggling with. You can decide how we will proceed after that. OK?" She asks me for a chance at showing her skills.
Sure no harm in that, I am going to accept either way.
Glowing red eyes hold mine in lock. "Let me into your mind, Let your mistress perform her magic..." the slow hypnotic voice was like listening to a siren on the sea. I could not do anything other than sitting there and following her instructions.
I'm guessing it's because I had agreed to offer her a chance and I wasn't resisting either because she knew most of the things about me anyway.
When I came out of the trance I could feel my head pulsing and my body slightly weaker, but there was a voice in my head that was reciting the Magical Wiki non-stop. Klare had just finished a project for me that would have taken me a bit less than a year to complete.
"Welcome to the Club, Cultist Zero," I say smirking.
She smirked back but her eyes were glued to my neck. Tilting my neck and patting my lap as an open invitation. She takes all but a second to jump on me and bite.
Whilst she enjoys my blood I enjoy roaming her body. Rather underdeveloped and so not all that appealing even though she was 5 years older than me.
Vampire age slower and slower the older they get. By the time she was 10, it had taken her 2 years to physically age another year.
The vampires were a bit trippy like that.
Unfortunately, that means it will be a few more years before my little vampire becomes a delectable delicacy.
After the feeding, I made my way to the last compartment to see what I was being offered and what the offer was even worth.
There on the door, I saw an empty nameplate, and on the wall next to the door were 3 nameplates.
It didn't take a genius to figure out what needed to be done.
I went through the nameplates to see some rather good leveling worlds.
Modded Skyrim
Playable with Skyrim System
Playable with Devil/Daedric System
Need for speed and Fast and furious Merged
Playable with Mechanics system
Playable with Racer/speed Systems
True World/ Normal earth
Playable with reincarnation system
Playable with Genius system
9 choices with a further option of halving my current stats to take my current self and system there.
For now, though I'll wait. I don't need another world and the hassle that came with it. I'll get comfortable here first. In a year or two playing modded Skyrim for the Daedric system would be fun, especially when I return with a system that would give more credence to my supposed divinity than simple magic could.
Ignoring the door and making my way back to the compartment to change for the upcoming station and stop.
I realized that Harry Potter and the hype around him wasn't present on the train. I had completely forgotten to learn about him by being completely absorbed by my own system and life.
Asking my new and trusty companion I learned that Harry Potter had three years till he could arrive and was currently in a secluded place with his family.
That should give me three years before the start of the canon. It was enough time to grow and establish myself here.
On the boats, I had seen Eddie Brunt already becoming fast friends with all other first years that were willing to listen. The only place he wasn't welcome was the purebloods associated with the Dark faction.
Lydia was much the same. These two were networking like crazy and I would need to get Lydia on my side so that I have at least a counter to Eddie should he become an obstacle. I knew the power of networking and rumors, it was something I could do without. Lydia in this case would be able to counter any rumors and alliances Eddie tries to use against me.
The hard part was bringing the poster girl of the light to the dark side.
Whilst I was busy scheming the sorting had already begun, I had been directed by Klare as I had gone autopilot.
The sorting wasn't anything of note. Eddie going to Ravenclaw, Lydia going to Hufflepuff, and Klare and I going to Slytherin.
The thing that was of note was Rossweisse sat at the head table.
Alarm bells went off in my head and a flashback to a few snippets of information made me break out in cold sweat AND want to kill everyone in sight.
The world was reset with a new algorithm but the previous Game manual also mentions previously completed worlds merging with new worlds IF compatible.
This meant that my previous experience in DXD had been considered as me done with the world and moving to a new one. Considering HP has demons, summoning, magic, dragons, and a lot of other things. The world I'm in currently is an amalgamation of the 2 worlds but reset with a new algorithm meaning the DXD world is now different than before.
This shit just got a lot more interesting
Even then, why is Odin's assistant here in Hogwarts?
The best thing to do is ignore it for now and just level up in the meantime.
Getting into the Slytherin common rooms I was met with hostile stares and pensive looks.
Seems some people need to be taught why the black name is so feared and those fence-sitters will quickly get in line.
Thankfully someone was dumb enough to voice their displeasure.
"Ah. The wannabe prince of Black. Hopefully, you don't have any delusions of us kneeling to you." The boy was clearly a ring leader here and even with the wording, he was careful not to say something truly stupid.
"No I truly don't, but I wouldn't discourage it." I retorted easily, smirking.
Dissatisfied with my attitude but he had nothing he could do, especially since Aunt Narcissa was sitting on the Black seat and with Aunt Bella ready to duel anyone. It wouldn't end well for whichever house managed to piss off the Blacks.
Still, though, a lesson was in order.
But it will have to be delayed a bit. Can't have people outright blaming me but it also can't be too late as people need to suspect me.
It was a timing game at this point.
Making my way to my room and having Kreacher set and expand my room, I got to warding. I knew beginner warding and that was enough to set up a very basic alarm ward.
After that, I penned a letter to Molly. I needed an enchanted one-time port-key to anywhere as long as it was outside of Hogwarts wards. I told her not to worry about the splinching as I was already aware of the issue and I also needed the portkey enchanted to be unnoticeable or something that can be disregarded. This new project was to be completed within 2 weeks.
Then in the morning, I decided to hit the library first. I could go a long while without food, water, and even air.
In the library, I scanned through the shelves to see if there were books that were not yet included in the magical wiki. There were many, it turns out. Some branches of magic had progressed and some had diverged onto different things. For example, the Voodoo magic from the Black library had evolved into puppetry by merging with golemancy. The books added more ways to use certain branches of magic or added new pathways by merging some magics. Incantations and true name magics joined to become summoning magics, like summoning a demon or devil whose name was known.
I couldn't, however, go through the Hogwarts library and empty most of it because I needed the skill.
I'll have to find a way to copy the books and use the copied book or the originals and replace them with copies.
The point was I had 3 free years to passively build up my repertoire and cultivate my cult.
This was easy enough for me to take this slow and steady.
3 months later
A lot and very little has happened in these past few months at Hogwarts. It was mainly a lot of small things happening but that was quickly building up.
The Portkey had arrived a few days after the deadline that was given but the finished product was worth it nonetheless. You had to know about the key and then also focus on it to really notice it. It seems Molly had really taken what I had said to heart. She went all out on it. The runes first made it really hard to notice and then the enchantment made it so that you had to know about it to notice it.
She still could have done it better though if she had switched the format. Runes making sure the person had to know of the item to notice it would have worked better than an enchantment. I'm guessing it's because Molly is trying to save money on a runesmith that she is teaching herself the art. Not too shabby all things considered.
The day after I got the item I used a timed activation on the port key and stuck it to the brat that opposed me on the first day.
The results were rather satisfactory. He was talking about kneeling, now the fucker can't even get out of bed for the remainder of the year.
Most Slytherins know it was me but they won't dare voice it. It is like an open secret where I get all the benefits of it being well known AND the benefits of it being a thing not talked about.
When the teachers came calling, I was the one that voiced out that he was practicing apparition and had bragged about it. Some of the Slytherins showed support and backed my claim and others claimed not to know anything.
Point was, I got away scot-free. People knew I was the cause so they backed off and stopped any thoughts of antagonizing me.
As for the passive power gain that I had happening, well I could now duel a second year to a standstill. I could kill a fourth year if I went all out and used all the Dark arts I knew, but that would put me in Azkaban or on the run. Therefore, it isn't a good measure of strength when I can't use it.
Klare had managed to get herself another blood bag in the form of a muggle-born who was interested in vampire romance novels and so was less reliant on me for blood. She still came every night to feed, now in more ways than one. She would first sit in my lap, grind and bite me after a while when I was starting to get rough with her body. After a good blood-feeding, she would drop to her knees and take me in her mouth and keep going till I spilled. I wasn't gonna say it to her or out loud but she definitely learned things from her mother.
Speaking of mothers, mine had gone out, gotten drunk, and had woken up with a fallen Angel as her new wife.
Sahiel had been her name and had apparently been so taken by mother that she had offered to take mother to the Grigory base in the Underworld if she wanted to.
As I said, a lot but also very little in the grand scheme of things.
I had just recently gotten my hands on the details of a squib that lived in the midlands. No known family or relatives. Aunt Bella was going over today with some selective potions. I should have a fresh mind-wiped loyal squib in my control soon.
I planned on using the squib as a faux pas leader of the cult.
At the moment though I was making my way to an unused classroom to meet a certain person. Said person had introduced themselves as the representative of the Norse God Odin.
I'm honestly surprised that it took them 3 months to finally approach me.
I had, of course, looked into what the DXD world was here and how it was affecting the HP world and I realized something.
There was no such thing as a male devil. All devils were actually females and at some point in their life, they chose to take the form of a male.
I could see the hand of the developer in this. Giving me access to all the available girls in this world without having to use a Romantic simulator route.
I'll take it, no complaints from me, because I know other worlds will not be so easy to get girls in or so easy to power up in.
But what if I build my divinity towards Sex, erotica, and debauchery? I'll be able to take half of my powers after all.
Something to think about later.
As I enter the room I notice that there are some leaflets on the tables. The devil summoned circle leaflets to be exact.
"Ah...Welcome, God-ling Black. Or as some are calling you the little black god." She welcomes me by immediately dropping bombs. I mean seriously, not that I mind, but what is it with people starting conversations with the juicer parts. First Klare and now Rossweisse.
"Well, that makes our conversation easier and quicker. What can I help you with Ross? And what are all these summing papers for?" I get straight to the point.
"Well, my lord Odin's all-seeing eye has shown the rise of a new pantheon and as such, I am here to extend an alliance. As for the devils, they have paid good money to request a private audience with you. I will not be summoning them without your acceptance and most certainly not before we are done." She responds with a rather polite tone.
"What does an alliance with the Asatru Faith gain me?" ignoring the deal about the devils, I inquired from her.
"Protection till your own pantheon can defend itself, in return we wish to be declared as the ancestral Faith. Like the Greek and the roman, where the roman faith was derived from the greek." Her face gives nothing away and is all business. It's hard for me to understand what they truly gain from that. All it would mean is that as long as the Black pantheon stands so will the Norse. It's like a religious Horcrux except not as useful.
"You can't expect me to believe that it is all you want."
"It is. You see some of our gods have gone rogue with Loki and will eventually start a fight we cannot hope to win unless we leach some power of faith from the new Black pantheon as we would be the ancestral faith and we would not be completely gone even if we lose a war as the Black Pantheon can rise and remain permanent for millennia more," she answers with rather blunt honesty.
"We can also help you in cultivating your divinity to the wanted realm. Thor was a former god of smiths after all and after some help with cultivation he became the god of thunder and lightning, plus a legendary warrior." she is trying to entice me with some honey and it's certainly working
"Convince Aphrodite to help you with the cultivation and I'll agree. I will be Adonis Black, the male equivalent to aphrodite after all." I might as well go all out here and at worst they will reject me.
"We can arrange a meeting for you with aphrodite as an extra. Don't say we never did anything for ya." she winks and signs at the bottom of a contract and hands it over to me.
"Say Rossweisse, how about an internship with me. I'll need a pers…." I don't get to finish my offer e before I'm interrupted.
"I'm not becoming your toy, Black. Gain some Divinity and put a ring on my finger first. I'm a virgin goddess and will only cater to my husband. It matters little who else my husband may have on the side, it just matters that we are married. The only vow needed from my husband is to never part or divorce." she was interested but not all that much, perhaps more once I have divinity.
"Now, do you wish to talk to the devils? They don't seek you harm, the opposite in fact. We would let them near you if they meant harm after all." She urges me to talk to the devils.
"I see no harm in it." I voice. These devils were different after all.