"Nope, I'm done." He immediately quits the game and turns the console off. "I fucking hate P5." without any time limit, Ishi has just been playing all of HK. He rubs his hands together. "Back to the fun stuff. Not that HK isn't fu- you get it."
"Why do you keep talking to yourself, creator?"
"I just like it. I think it let's me deal with my situation better. Or, that's what I've noticed." Though he likes Maligog, he has enough mind reading beings in his head, so he wasn't all too bothered when he learned that his telepathic connection to his beings in Hell is weakened as to not allow communication.
Ishi enters his birds eye view and looks at his storage again. He randomly picks one of the biomes left. "Hell caves it is."
This one was more basic, a mountain range is now at the back of the blood swamps, they have caves and a few dungeons inside them, not enough to warrant a key. "I guess 700 P can't buy me everything." only two more things remain.
"I'll do the spawning pools later, now the super gore nest is next." He selects the appropriate button in his storage and drags the large flesh construct over to the left of his tower. What looked like a large ribcage with an open mouth at the top, after placement, looked like a small, basketball sized flesh amalgam. Ishi rushes out of the tower and towards the flesh mass a few meters away from it. "The fuck?"
This is your Gore Nest! The Gore Nest will grow over time, but only with sufficient fuel. Fuel sources include; blood, souls, sins, any bad emotion felt in hell (agony, regret, guilt, etc).
But if a gore nest grows by itself, it will not be complex in design. To make a veritable bunker or city out of a Gore Nest you must give it scaffolding to develop around. For example, place a hallway next to the nest you currently have, after enough food, it will encase the hallway and copy it's design, change it to it's theme and use it where you see fit.
"I get all of these things for only 700 P?" Ishi looks down at his gore nest and, after a few seconds, a screen appears.
Super Gore Nest. [SEED Progress: 0%/Inf.]
Status:
HP 100/100
HP Reg: INSANE
VIT: 100
STR: 0
DEX: 0
INT: 10
WIS: 1
Ishi breathes out a tired sigh "It's been a long day for a four year old." he raises his hands and slaps the sides of his face lightly "But I'm not yet done. I've got a lot to do if I want to achieve my goals." he looks through his shop for anything he could feed his nest. "I only have 160 P left, hmm. Let's look for an entrance first, what would look good as flesh and teeth?"
A smile forms on his face as well as an idea in his mind "I've got a few fears already covered and- oh. OH! Should my hell have layers?" a few seconds of thinking pass. "Punishing the evil sounds enticing, those who drag us down get punished. I think I can even chose for what someone goes to hell for." he nods his head in acceptance. "Layers it is. I'll need to theme every layer differently, or at least I want to. This is obviously the last layer, where I reside. I've already made it look more like classical hell so let's keep that theme going."
Ishi stretches himself while he thinks. "I can take inspiration from fears to build this gore nest. I also want it to be different from the gore nest level you see in doom. So, let's make it ocean themed! The deep ocean, Subnautica style!" he scrolls through his shop once more to look for anything he thinks fits his criteria. "Well, first I need an actual surface to stand on. Ocean is cool and all but we still ne- why not really Subnautica themed?" he types into the search bar what he thinks is right for this little corner of hell. "The underwater base parts you can build in the game."
He selects them, costing 70 P, and places what he can. A large room, rectangular and with windows on the roof together with a circular hallway leading to an exit hatch. The interior has a few of the futuristic furniture, smooth white and monotone colors. "Now, how does one get sinners here to feed their Nest?"
We recommend finishing your set first, then waiting to be older than 4.
A shake of his head announces his stance. "I agree with you on the first one but one the second point... I don't have time to wait. Things'll need to move fast, so I can always be one step ahead." but, resigning to the systems first request, he opens his menu and selects the last option, to which a new screen pops up.
Demon Spawn Pools.
Currently Unlocked:
Zombies
Zombie Soldiers
Imps
"Hm." Ishi starts to walk back to his tower while he imagines what the specifics of the spawning pools. "So, how much does one- I guess Unit cost?" he arrives at his tower and walks back up to his room.
The spawning pools themselves are free. Placing them let's you see how much they cost.
He nods to the system as he sits down on his bean bag. "Okay, now how do I unlock new ones?"
They need to be bought in the shop.
"Simple enough." as he presses his tiny thumb on the 'Zombie' button he expected the same green transparent object to appear. But it did not. He taps the option and the zombie spawn pools immediately disappear in his storage. Before he can wonder or complain about it, Ishi sees, out of the corner of his eyes, the wall next to his TV disappear and be replaced with a metal door. "Down there?" he approaches the door and opens it, creaking metal accompanying it's reveal.
A downward spiraling staircase imbedded into his tower greets him. The red outside sky is only seen through small, caged-off windows. Torches with dark red flame are built onto the left side of the wall. "Cool." the small comment thrown in, Ishi makes his way down the spiral. After a few minutes, he arrives at the bottom. No door separates him from the large cave-like room about a football field large as he walks through it. "Is this below my tower?" his question unanswered, he continues in a straight forward line until, after only 10 seconds, an open doorway sticks out of the wall to his right.
He goes through it and the room he ends up in is only about as big as the one he has upstairs. Out of the ground and walls, small puddles of blood raised by a stone frame seemingly look back up at him. "This is it? 'kay, how do I us-" after getting a bit closer to the pools, a system window appears.
Zombie Spawn Pools
10 = 1 P
100 = 10 P
1000 = 90 P
"I'm not spending my points on any of these yet. I have no use for an army or any personnel right now." he quirks an eyebrow and puts his hand on his chin. "Then again, maybe I can have an instant protection army for situations I cant handle by myself." after a bit of thought, he nods as his decision is made. "I'll place the other two pools and then buy a few of each." he walks out of the frankly foul smelling room.
He immediately opens his store and navigates to the storage again. After going through the selection process again, a new opening directly opposite of the zombies appears in the cave. And now that he looks closer, above both the new and old spawn pool doors are carvings of the heads of the appropriate fiend. Still, Ishi was on his way to the new room before he can bother to comment. On entry, three capsules of blue glass connected to tubes and wires stand on a platform of metal and cables. But the most outstanding feature of this place are the small cervices along the floor, all full of blood and all leading towards the tubes. Again, after taking a few steps closer, a window appears in the same red neon color as the others.
Zombie Soldiers Spawn Pools
10 = A corpse, Any Equipment, 1 P
100 = Ten corpses, Any Equipment, 10 P
1000 = 100 corpses, Any Equipment, 60 P
As he often does these days, a hum escapes him in thought. "I'll need factories?" shaking his head with exhaustion at the needed management of hell. "Fuck it, I'll just go full Adeptus Mechanicus. I always liked the lore and games of 40K, and such a dystopian world fits perfectly in a layer of my world." a smile. "Ahh, yes! A city for the Omnissiah, who will be me in this case." but a frown replaces the uncanny toddlers smile. "Will it bring the warp?"
If not requested, no. Though, for a cost of... 10000 P you can create a warp of your control, the four gods under your command.
"If I ever get that rich then that is number 1 on my list. Until then, Mechanicus it is." Ishi shakes his head. "But even that is far away. For now, I have this room I need to supply corpses and weaponry to." after looking at his current points again, he sees he is too poor for even the smallest automated factories for the appropriate equipment from the future needed. For now then, this room is ignored and Ishi walks out to summon the next. After conforming, the first demon spawning pools appear.
A Short walk to the left of Ishi and he is in a blank, square room. The floor is covered in demonic carvings, a pentagram and depictions of the hell this demon is from. "Fitting. Basic room for a basic demon."
Imp Spawning Pools
10 = A soul, 1 P
100 = Ten souls, 10 P
1000 = 100 souls, 70 P
"So, clearly there is a pattern to this." a conceding nod follows his critical analysis. "But I have no souls to feed. Zombies will have to do for now." Walking back to their room, the ugly odor and bloody pools greeting him on entry. "Then, I'll buy 600, fill my domain a bit."
-60 P
Spreading across Hell...
...
...!
If you have need of your troops, think of them and try to summon them. The will come, as many as you want.
"Good." He goes into his bird eye view, which has become a button in his menu, and looks over his swamps and the rest of the barren lands of hell. And indeed, the meek and thin, gray zombies of the francize spread across. "600, even if weak, are not easy to deal with. They will at least buy me time to run if needed. Though, if I, Satan and a gamer, am running... then the battle is lost anyways." that he is not entirely sarcastic in his overconfidence stays unknown to the child.
He starts to walk back to his room for his final detour in hell, for now. "I was talking about acquiring sinners to begin with, yes?"
Before I recommended you to think, yes you where.
He bows slightly as he walks up his stairs. "Thank you! Now, what I need for my troop reaffirms this need, so get on with it. Tell me how to get a system in place to become Hell."
You first need to understand the sheer magnitude of what you are asking. Creating such a system will directly impose on the preexisting system of death in this world. While there is no god here, there is a universal law dictating the process after death for each person.
Ishi arrives in his room and lays on his couch. "And what is it?"
Irrelevant. Important is, more than half of what you will be paying in points will be for destroying the previous system. For example, if you want people to go to your hell under whatever criteria you want, you will need;
19000 P to destroy the rules.
50 P to make the criteria.
500 P to make your system.
As you see, this is not only more than half, it dwarfs the cost of the rest.
The frown was on Ishi's face for a while now. "Any way around it?"
Simple, buy a system that exists and modify it.
"Elaborate." The frown was more in thought than in annoyance now.
Take the entirety of the Hell of another universe and put it in one of the layers you plan.
"Which ones wo-"
Only one has an option to be modified by it's creator. And, you will be taking this universes hell, not it's heaven. A bridge will be created between both universes, it can let it's heaven enter your hell and you can enter their heaven. This will also allow good souls from MHA to enter a heaven, if you so choose.
"This sounds too good to be true. Would I need to fight that Hell leader?"
He cannot kill you. But any being more powerful than you that originates or lives in your hell is not under your control. Only the ones you created directly are loyal under any circumstance.
"Fuck. J-just give me the details of the hell I'll be taking and I'll do it when I enter UA." He chuckles slightly. "Cant imagine somebody wanting to swear loyalty to a four year old." a new idea enters his head but is shot down immediately. "No, I cant use Maligog or any other mega powerful demon to subjugate them. It is, at best, a temporary solution. Even if strong, Maligog is not by my side always. Assassination will be the first option a fellow king of hell will go for."
"Now, gimme."
The best and only option is...
Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss.
2000 P
A bit knocked back at this revelation, Ishi replies a bit quieter. "Seriously?" he reclines into his comfortable couch. "But it makes sense. And it's even better, powerful overlords I can use and layers of it's own I can add to mine." but at this opportunity, another smile made of a hunger for power adorns his facial features, unnatural to his body. "But I always thought I could run that place better. It may have been that Lucifer has not the control over his folk needed to punish them or could not be bothered... but I do." he opens his menu to play around with it while he monologues, something he thinks he'll be doing a lot from now on, as a pretend villain and all. "I may let them keep their freedom, may let them keep their cities but, if I want them to, they will serve." his smile, not having become one of playfulness as one would expect of a human his age, turn to a grin more common on beings in thrones like his. "I have the mind of a human, I value freedom and the right to choose but I am also a demon now. The demon."
"And they will recognize that."
"It may be my class affecting me, but I will not let them go unchained."
"My pride will not allow it."
No, it was not his class, or a trait or a skill. It was merely how he is. How he's always been. He just never was in the right situation.
And the previous devil knew this, knew how Ishi is. Somebody who would do anything to further his goals and, while he may have more of a moral compass than others, he still enjoys it.
He enjoys power... but he is not immune to it's corruption. It may not make him crazy or barbaric or even mentally ill in any way.
But it changes his perspective.
Not much now, only sightly. But he is young, and he died young. A juvenile mind subjected to all of this will change, undoubtedly.
But for now, he is just a kid given all the tools to do what ever he wants. He may not think of them as something for his personal use now, but he will with time. As a devil, a demon, a king, he will indulge in his personal desires. And they may not be of evil nature but still of great magnitude.
But not now. But not this soon. Not when his gift is unfamiliar. Uncomfortable to him.
Not now, when he is a child.
"Come on, it's your first day! Don't be late." His mother calls out from the hallway.
"Just a bit mom!" after he came back from his hellish adventure, his mother told him he'd be attending kindergarten in two weeks. And now, it's been two weeks and Ishi is currently hurting his thumb while trying to get his shoe on his foot. He has been dedicating as much time as he could to training, though less to experimenting with his system, as he felt that he needs to focus on the things he has right now, as to not stress himself too much. Of course, his stats improved and so did his skills but because he did no dungeons and nobody was willing to fight the four year old to the death, he gained no levels.
He also didn't spend any of his attained stat points, saving them because of the exponential difficulty in naturally leveling stats. The only skills he could not train where 'Death of Will, Death of Body' and his demon summoning skill. One for obvious reasons and the other because he'd rather not risk anybody noticing him and his demons, especially Maligog. Though he couldn't summon him yet.
Though right now, he needs to be a toddler having his first day in kindergarten. "I know mom!" by now, Ishi got the shoe on and his backpack ready. 'Who'll be in my... class? How does kindergarten work here? Anyway, I hope it's somebody I'll be seeing in UA, to befriend them early...s-so I can betray them later.' His last thoughts leave a bitter taste in his mouth but he has made his peace with it. At least he thinks so. 'I seriously need a hobby. Music maybe? Always had an interest in that. Yeah, I'll do that.'
Ishi bursts through his door, keeping his 'energetic child' persona up. "Let's go Mom!"
His mother, nice as always, calmly chuckles and pats his head. "There you are." she takes her keys and unlocks the door to exit the apartment.
It takes a bit but he's at the large building in just a few minutes, fast enough to see that it has yet to open. He looks to his left, where hi smother is sitting in the drivers seat. "Imma go now, bye!"
His mother smiles at him "Bye honey, have a nice day!"
He nods as he opens the car door to leave. One foot after the other and he's in front of the doors to the place he'll be spending a while in.
One. There is one person he recognizes here. And it's Mina Ashido, the girl with pink skin and horns. Now, he has nothing against her, really, but he was hoping to be in Bakugo's group, they're already friends. Right now, the group, consisting of 21 children are sitting in a semicircle surrounding the... teacher? He entered this room after a teacher recognized him, probably from a photo his mom gave to her, and took him to her class. That was five minutes ago and they've been waiting for everybody to arrive.
One of the kids, one with brown hair and four arms, his quirk probably, grab him at the back of his shirt. Ishi just sighs. 'Why do I have to deal with this?' He audibly groans. He stands up, a bit shakily as to display a proper image for his age, and the annoyance at his back let's go of him. Not bothering to interact with anybody right now, it would only matter when they develop some form of manners, else he would not put up with them, Ishi jumps up slightly onto the black leather sofa. "Mine's better." he grumbles, annoyed and regretting his decisions.
Like a king would over his castle, the devil looks at the rest of the room and it's occupants from a slightly higher altitude. 'These little gremlins will be the ones I have to interact with? Man, fuck this shit!' though he complains, he still plans to make a few friends, otherwise it would draw a lot of attentions. Though, it's not like being friends with somebody at this age requires a lot of input.
The semicircle they where in just a moment ago had completely collapsed after the teacher... caretaker? he cant remember, stopped talking to them. The children have spread across this room, some forming groups already but some alone. And, to his immense surprise, Mina is one of them. 'Maybe it's because of how she looks? But she's so outgoing in the show... how'd that develop when she had no social circle to interact with?' still, he sees his chance and walks- stumbles to the lonesome girl.
The king of hell approaches the small alien girl, planning to earn a new friend in this new world he's in. And even after four years in it, it is still weird to see such mutations in humans, though that does not taint his views of the person. She may think he was aiming to walk somewhere else, so Ashido does not acknowledge his approach but rather looks at the ground.
"Hi!" Mina jumps at his sudden voice. "Why are you sitting here all alone?" Ishi inwardly punches himself. 'Great! Talk about how alone she is, smooth talker I am.'
Her black sclera may be off-putting to many, her horns and skin too but Ishi is not. This may not be apparent to her, but it is to him. If she was older, and still shunned, she may think that he has ulterior motives but at her age, she takes him at face value. She still brakes her previously instated eye contact. "They say I'm creepy."
"I don't get it. It's your quirk, right?" aiming to give her a better perspective of her situation, Ishi tries to lead the conversation. Something he is sure would be rare if Mina is to become as social as she is in the fictional series.
To his question, she responds with a nod. "Yes. It's a mutant one. I can make acid though!" and there it shines through. Her bright personality may be squandered by the circumstances she is in, but it is still Mina Ashido.
He smiles at her and sits down next to her. "That's cool! I don't think you should be alone just because you look different, a cool quirk such as yours should be acknowledged." he quickly continues, not wanting to sound like a quirk supremist. "Though anybody deserves equ- the same treatment." avoiding complex wording is something he's still getting used to. Ishi has received many confused looks at the things he's said.
"Then, want to be friends?" At her words, Ishi is reminded that toddlers are really without any shame.
He chuckles only a bit. "Yeah, sure."
Mina stands up suddenly. "Yay!"
'Adorable.'
The alien girls jumps around a bit, Ishi can see the teacher smile at their direction, before she calms down. "What's your name, friend?"
The shock at his forgetfulness quickly fades as he takes the opportunity to do something funny, to him at least. "I am Aldia, Scholar of the first Sin." his smile is more of amusement for a few seconds.
She quirks a confused eyebrow. "What?"
He waves his hand. "I'm kidding, my name's Midoriya Ishi."
She nods. "I'm Ashido Mina!"
He gives her a thumbs up. "Want to talk about quirks?" Thinking that may be a popular topic for kids of his age, Ishi takes the shot at a conversation starter.
Not another kid joins them in their banter for the rest of his time here. Though they may move their spots as the classes and rooms change, they still talk. Even as they eat, even sharing the meals at times, they talk. Even if Ishi doesn't need much brain power, he still enjoys their talk. He thought it would be hard to not die of boredom here but, 'It may not be so bad. She's fun to talk to.'
His mother doesn't look away from the road as she asks him, "How was your first day? Did you make any friends?"
He nods excitedly from next to her. "Yup! Her names Mina and she's super nice!" though he's playing up his would-be response, he stands true to his words. Also, they are already on first name basis, neither she or him cared too much so they skipped past that after the first hour of it getting in the way.
The ever present smile on his dear mothers face only grows with the news, and she even looks relieved. 'Did she think I would make no friends? What gave her that idea?' many scenes of him acting like the average teenager flash through his mind. 'I stand corrected.'
"That's great, Ishi." the atmosphere becomes more relaxed as they drive, just mother and son basking in their familiar connection. Would he be any less comfortable with her, this would be awkward but Ishi has finally grown accustomed to her position in his life. Now, when he thinks of his mother, Inko flashes through his mind first. This was shocking and demoralizing for a day or two, how quickly he replaced his first mother but his 'it is what it is' mentality pushed through and he accepted it.
Today, he had no time to rally train, neither will he have any for the next four days. Only at the weekends, he will realize, he has any time to grow in strength.
And he is comfortable with that.
"Do you want to come over some time?" Ishi and his only female friend stand together under an umbrella in the rain, waiting for their parents to get them home after kindergarten ended.
He can almost see the stars in her eyes as she answers with rapid nods. "Yes! When?!"
She's become more and more energetic and comfortable with him over this first week and he, more used to her antics. He does not even flinch anymore at her movement. "I'll have to ask my mom, I can tell you on Monday."
Not deterred at his lack of reaction, Mina nods with a frown. "M'kay. I-uh I need to go now, mom waiting back there." she points towards a red car.
I smile at her. "See you then."
His mother soon arrives too and the last day of kindergarten this week ends on a good note.
Done.