Aleister looked at the single Photonic Crystal he had managed to produce, Medea glaring at the pile of goop before her, as if it had insulted her.

"I'm as shocked as you, aren't you a mage from the Age of Gods?".

"Do I look like Paracelsus? Alchemy is something I've only dabbled in".

"Dabbled, says the woman who can instantly turn dirt into diamonds...".

If it was someone like Paracelsus, he'd be able to create dozens of Photonic Crystals with ease. Medea is way more powerful, but her magic isn't focused towards Alchemy (She's better then Aleister, but unlike him doesn't have various skills basically guiding her through the process).

- Marble of Photonic Crystals (5).

Aleister had wanted to form a sort of 'war council' but...

"I went way to overboard with this didn't I...?". He though aloud.

"Considering how pathetic the body guard system Berserker has is? Absolutely. Even just one of us would be able to pull it off". Medea looked bored, a crystal ball floating before her with an image of Panacea currently working in the hospital, her only defender being a tired looking Lady Photon. "A single bodyguard at a time, for the most powerful healer in the world? And looking at how overworked they are...".

"Its like their ASKING for someone to kidnap her!". Okita could barely believe what she was seeing, but both Medea's magic and FB's cameras told the same thing. "Theres got to be something going on right? Tattletale?".

"Nothing... New Wave overworked, performing to many patrols... Panacea is extremely stressed, her body language shows signs of a future mental break down. Likely within the week if the current situation keeps up...". The brainwashed Thinker spoke emotionless, Aleister hadn't gotten around to 'redesigning' her yet.

"Meltryllis, how is the war between the PRT and ABB going?". The master asked.

"Pathetically, the PRT has suffered no fatalities, but near every encounter with an ABB cape has ended with them losing and needing to rush to Panacea. Lung's been emboldened by constant success, not even bothering to hide his presence, he's probably expecting Faust to attack soon and is confident in dealing with you". The AI grinned, the PRT really were pathetic and it thrilled her to imagine her lover crushing them, or perhaps crushing them herself once she got a body...

"Dinah, chance of success if attempting to assassinate Lung before he can escalate?". Aleister was hopeful for a high number.

"23%". The brainwashed Precog replied, he was planning to handle 'redesigning' her later today, but the meeting was more important.

That... Was a worryingly low number, but at the same time they had learned Precog abilities seemed to go off the fritz when dealing with magic. So they had no idea how accurate it truly was.

"What if we send Okita alone?".

"7%.

Shit, not good. Aleister frowned, but he had a final question.

"Chance of success if Okita tries kidnapping Panacea when she leaves the hospital?".

"80%".

"Not bad, not bad... But whats the 20% of failure?". Aleister frowned as he looked across his allies, Okita had both the fastest speed and best stealth among them, he'd seen the PRT and New Wave members, none of them were even close, so what was the chance of failure? "Tattletale?".

"...Panacea isn't a healer, full Bio-Tinker, chance of failure is likely from her powers going berserk. Would not effect energy bodies".

Panacea being a full Bio-Tinker wasn't that surprising if he was honest, but how far could she go? And if it didn't event energy bodies (AKA spiritual bodies like Servants), what was the threat?

"These 'Thinker' and 'Precog' abilities aren't seeming worth the effort to acquire them, to vague, I feel like I'm listening to some priestess of Apollo". Medea frowned, the fact the abilities couldn't really predict their supernatural powers was annoying.

"The PRT are busy being distracted fighting the ABB, but if we take Panacea multiple heroes will die and the ABB will rapidly expand... Our best shot is taking down the ABB and grabbing Panacea at the same time, its the easiest way to avoid an unstable power vacuum". Okita offered her own opinion, her own more heroic intentions showing. "What about the Faust and Leonardo case? What are the PRT planning there?".

"Nothing, Leonardo is a non-concern with how busy they are, and they only have the barest resources to spare into keeping an eye out for Faust. The public is panicked as well, with Faust having taking down multiple gangs so quickly, civilians are fearing a complete villain takeover". Melt's voice was disgusted, why were most humans so fragile?

"Alright... Here's the plan". Aleister began to explain his current plan, there may be some changes but he was fairly confident.

Lumine Grace felt... Strange as she woke up, she was... Yes, she was in the bed Iris (Why did that name feel so strange on her tongue? Iris was her friend) had given her, after her... After her parents had died, yes. They had died and she had Triggered, Iris had convinced her sister to let her stay here and...

"Ah! I-i'm late!". She quickly got out of her bed, getting changed into some casual clothes. Today was the day she'd meet her master! A warm feeling went through her body, a-ah... Truly, she had been blessed when Iris had decided to introduce her to Aleister, the perfect, most amazing master!

Smiling at herself, Lumine felt she was ready to meet her new master. Opening her bedroom door, she started walking towards the living room, excitement beating in her chest. Entering the room...

Her master was even greater in person, his features were handsome and he had a calm but dangerous aura around him. He looked up from the laptop he was working on, smiling at the sight of her.

"Hello Lumine, how are you feeling?". Her master's voice was just as attractive as the rest of him, she quickly bowed, a happy smile on her face.

"I'm feeling great! Thank you for accepting me as one of your group Master Aleister!". She shivered with excitement as he stood up and approached her, a hand gently taking hold of her chin and forcing their eyes to meet.

100% chance you are brainwashed.

Dinah Lumine blinked, brainwashed? She wasn't aware her Precog ability could have errors like that. She was just a girl in love, nothing strange about that!

"Are your feeling alright? You seem tense". Aleister asked, but she just smiled at him.

"My power is just acting a bit off! Can't even tell the difference between love and brainwashing". Lumine giggled, missing the look of relief on the master's face.

Aleister mentally let out a sigh of relief, this had been the third attempt at brainwashing Dinah and it seemed third time truly was lucky. The previous attempts she'd realized something was wrong by her power informing her she was brainwashed, but this time he'd managed to convince her that her power was just confusing love and brainwashing.

"Great, well theres only one thing left to do for today. Are you ready to test out your Demi-Servant powers? Iris is looking forward to a spar".

"Of course! Lets have some fun!".

Dinah has been turned into Lumine Grace and turned into a Photonic Crystal powered Demi-Servant, it took Aleister a couple tries though because brainwashing a Precog or Thinker can be... Annoying.

I'll update character sheets soon, just got stuff to do after finishing this chapter.

Merged creating an homunculus cloning system and creating a mining quarry.

Aleister looked at the island before him, a massive mining island with various brainwashed minions already getting to work to mine Chrome Digizoid. The quarry had came out wonderfully...

The other project on the other hand? He glanced to the main island, seeing a half constructed lab, bits of data dissolving off it. He hadn't realized just how hard it'd be to create a homunculus.

The Digital World could only produce so much material, and if he wanted the right stuff to make a homunculus he needed to get it in the real world. The equipment he could make easily, but getting the supplies? He had money, but he wasn't old magus blood rich.

Add in creating homunculus was a high level task, especially if he wanted them to be Einzbern or even the Yggdmillennia level and suitable for Demi-Servant vessels...

Actually, no, that was a horrible idea. Aleister remembered a certain detail about homunculus, or rather a certain homunculus, Sieg. Sieg had essentially been able to turn into a copy of Siegfried, if the master turned a homunculus into a Demi-Servant, wouldn't that basically turn them into a copy of the Servant personality wise? Or was he panicking over nothing?

"Note to self... Don't try doing homunculus again until I get access to an empty Earth or Einzbern level wealth...".

Sooo... Yea, Aleister has never created a single artificial life form, homunculus are both extremely expensive and difficult to create, he was nowhere near ready to create an entire automatic homunculus making system. Add in stuff from the Digital World... Well, its literally crap in alchemy, since its made of data, you essentially cannot use anything from the Digital World in alchemy.

Digital World updated.

Island 4 - A small island, transformed into a mining quarry that produces Chrome Digizoid.

Faust frowned, looking at the pile of corpses and the snickering Keramon.

"You didn't have to kill all of them, we could've used more test subjects". He spoke to his partner, who just shrugged and pointed to the pile of guns, knives, and- "Is that a fucking grenade launcher?!".

"Smashed!". The Rookie laughed, durable he was, but at the Rookie level he was not taking a bloody grenade to the face.

"Alright, I can understand that then. Your cleaning up the bodies however". Faust wouldn't been more mad that his partner had killed so many, but these are criminals who'd been willing to kill and they had already captured plenty of future test subjects. "And I swear to god if you eat them!".

"BUG BLASTER!".

Boom!

"That works...".

New captives.

Random Criminals - 8.