Quinella finally has done it! Artificial Intelligence Aurora has massively accelerated the analysis of the data after that 3% disaster. To the point that she expanded her processing abilities again with another expansion.
After her Master's third session there was a 4.5% miscalculation. Which driver her nuts even more. Thankfully by the fourth session, the expansion of the processing facility was done.
And she only encountered 2.5% miscalculation. Satisfying her somewhat. But, now…
The last session was up and his whole group has gathered to see the 'final form' of their Master.
"Did you ladies feel it?" Serafall said with wide eyes.
"Yes, Master's magic just eclipsed ours…" Grayfia said with wide eyes. Before she smiled with satisfaction.
Now she is serving a more powerful being… in raw power. And that just gives her more satisfaction in her gut.
Soon enough the chemicals were drained out from the chemical room and the doors opened themselves.
Slowly their Master walked out from the room. All the females who saw him just gulped down.
Quinella could take this anymore and started walking forward towards him, her steps were still elegant. She quickly arrived in front of him.
Her hand quickly went forward towards his hair. She quickly brushed it back.
[Yes~~~ Now this is more to my liking. Now Master~~~ You officially look super hot!] She said that with a silly grin.
"Hmm?"
"Damn… Whoa! He truly looks similar to him!" Serafall said with wide eyes. Her cheeks slightly got red.
"Who?" Latia asked. Her eyes however stayed on her boyfriend.
"Aizen Sosuke from Bleach! Our Master has a similar physique now and his facial expression has similar sharpness even his gaze is similar!" As Serafall was saying that she was slightly getting hot.
"...Okay… I have no idea who he is… from the looks of it he is quite something…"
"He is supervillain, an evil scientist and genius… does it ring any bells now?" Serafall said with an eye roll. She can't believe this girl doesn't know Bleach!
"Oh… I see. You see similarities between our Master and him." Latia said with a knowing look. The black-haired devil quickly called a holographic window. Went to Google and showed the image of the supervillain.
"...Yes. Similar but our Master is more handsome." The blonde said with a dreamy look.
"I know! He could easily cosplay as the Aizen Sosuke if he wants to!" Serafall said with a dreamy voice.
By this point, Latia ignored her and instead went to approach her boyfriend.
Back to Marcus who heard all that called forth a holographic window himself and turned it into a mirror and inspected himself in it.
"Hoh. Now I see what you mean." The teen said softly. But the whole group except for Quinella that moment slightly turned weird.
His voice was not loud. It was soft but it commanded some sort of power to it.
Quinella that moment grinned from ear to ear. She was thinking that this would happen! This time it's a victory to her and not the genetics!
A Human's DNA is extremely complex as it went through evolution for thousands if not millions of years, unlike the supernatural which is created from beliefs or other machinations of powerful beings. Like for example Angels or Devils. They are creations of powerful beings.
So, it's not that complex they are already apex of their given form. Not much improvement is possible for them.
Quinella went through Artemis DNA countless times. Trying to understand Greek Gods. Trying to find something more. In the end, she always comes up with the same conclusion.
They are beings shaped by humanity. In the end, there is no Supernatural before humanity. At least nothing specific is uncovered. The earliest known Pantheons are Mesopotamian, Hindu, Egyptians with records going quite far.
There are exceptions though. Like the Heavenly Dragons, True Dragon or the Dragon God. Even the so-called Primordials Gods are not older than these living draconic energies.
In other words, their God bodies already reached their apex and there is nothing more for them to evolve. Unlike humans who are shaped and affected by nature around them.
What the Silver-haired assistant did is quite simple. She dug deep into her Master's DNA. Went to the earliest possible record. Once located she unleash it, re-did that for every single piece.
The artificial intelligence overwritten all downsides which human comforts did to her Master's body. All the weaknesses were eliminated. Once that was done his body was at the apex human level. The most primal in sense of evolution.
The senses at its peak, the mind at its sharpest. The muscles at the most ready. Once that was achieved. She then released all the limiters.
Once the limiters are gone. It was the time when his DNA was at the most active. The evolution has begun. This is where Quinella truly showed her Mastery over the genetics.
She has put her Master's adaptability ot the maximum possible. Pushing the gene to borderline breaking point. With max adaptability, she was able to add things from other beings genes. Like enormous magic reserves of Gods, sharp senses of a predator, not too much though as she wanted him still be human. So, balance was still needed. So, while he had senses of a predator it was not to the point that he would stalk like a predator.
The most groundbreaking for her was the Stray devil adaptability to the point of mutation. It was magic based phenomenon that affects the human body. What Quinella did however was analysed it and rework it to fit with her Master's adaptability.
She made it so that it becomes what people know as 'Zenkai' boost. The new body of her Master receives the damage and his DNA reacts to this damage. It adapts to it. And evolves. Raising its magical power to meet this new threat.
In other words. What she has made of her Master is a 'perfect' human. A human without any limits.
It's so great that even the devil ladies who heard his voice felt a tingle in their very being. They knew they were standing in front of something impossible to exist in this modern time and age.
"I do look like him. Quite fascinating. I would even call it a machination of yours." Marcus has put his hand on her assistant's chin. Pulling her closer.
"Was it one of your machinations? My beautiful little vixen?" Quinella stupidly nodded multiple times to his questions. Her human processors tried to understand what she just experienced.
The only result she got was that she needs a human body to properly comprehend this…
The rest of the group tried to understand what they were feeling.
Even Venelana was biting her lower lip. Her mind turned traitorous. The more she thinks about it the more she desires to test her Master's proficiency in certain activities.
Though. She doesn't want it just to be a simple session, however. After all, she is a Devil of the Bael family. For now, she will observe him closely.
While the other devil ladies who saw the changed Master of theirs could only lick their lips. This was… the Artificial Intelligence truly delivered on that promise to make their Master better!
"I see… you did quite nicely. Nonetheless, you are not allowed to hide things from me. Assuming you altered some of my looks?"
[I-I-I didn't! T-The only machination I could think about it… is… wait! I didn't do anything! I followed the protocol to letter!] Quinella huffed as she rapidly went through everything with her enormous processing capacity.
"So, you telling me this my natural look now?" Marcus raised his eyebrow as he inspected himself.
That moment he clenched his hand and channelled his magic.
A bright white aura surrounded him at that moment he called for his enormous amount of magic.
Both Serafall and Grayfia gulped down with disbelief. Their apex power was insignificant to this… Serafall could only fight her Master in this case with her Eternity Drive Balance Breaker.
This means Marcus was at least Super Devil Class being from just raw magic power.
"So, this is it? Quite impressive."
[I just clocked you at 85% of that of Red Dragon Emperor at his prime. From the readings we got from the Boosted Gear. And the strength of the soul reading.] Quinella said with a thoughtful look. Still, though she can't believe Master made her go through that embarrassing moment!
"I see… we will go through extensive tests later on." Marcus quite softly said that. He looked at the mirror for a second. His facial expression slowly morphed into that of a smile. A smile of someone who knows things. A very familiar smile which was always on the face of the certain villain from Bleach.
~~~~~~Marcus~~~~~~
Once again I looked at myself in the mirror. I just went through a whole bunch of scans.
All my vitals were perfect. The blood samples were scanned and analysed by Quinella. The beauty had 0% miscalculation this time which she was extremely smug about.
I already tried out some basic things. Like for example how long it takes for a simple cut finger to heal.
There was no improvement in my first session. As it was just fixing inherited things. The second one showed some 30% more rapid healing. In third it was 50% from base human. In fourth it was 150%. And in the last one, it was around 1000%. Well, more like the speed was nearly instantaneous.
The funny thing after that one was that it was harder to get cut by sharp things after this…
Meaning my body adapted to sharp things…
[Well, you are in 'perfect' health. The genetic alterations are… well, they are not there anymore… it's like your body was always like this… the natural adaptability assimilated those changes and accepted them as it is. Strange… I most likely figure this one out and add it to the S.P.B.A... quite interesting.]
I nodded at her. Assuming that my body adapted to the modification and accepted them as better alternatives.
Thinking for a bit I called forth touki. The golden whiteish aura surrounded me, the life force energy was even denser than before.
The power which comes directly from the lifeforce, quite a strange concept. The more my body was perfect the more I could channel it. I unlocked it after the third session. Followed by the fourth it was even denser. Now it was like fire surrounding me.
How this is connected to body and life is still something I need to do some research on.
Most likely reacted to my non-existing of lifespan.
Well, we will see what it does later on.
Now, I have magic and Touki. And I feel that there is something more there which I could access. Like there is a paper-thin layer keeping me away from whatever this is.
'Well, I will figure this one out soon enough.'
Once the checks are done I dressed up again and Quinella brough me the tray with my rings…
I noticed one more there…
"This is?"
I picked up the same looking golden ring like the rest. But, my senses were telling something else.
I know my rings from looks alone, and my magic sense tell their true nature as well. For example, the Ring of Destruction is like an endless abyss and the end of things. While my Ring of Focus is like my math classroom from the school… it has that vibe to it…
The Ring of Storage is like the basement where you keep your fruits over the winter. And this… this was like distorted space…
[I have finished this ring when you were going through your last session. I thought it will be a good gift to you.] She said that with a small blush on her cheeks.
"Oh… now that is a nice gift!" I said with quite a giddy tone. I could not remember the last time I got such a good gift!
[The Ring of Space, as you can guess it. This ring holds the principle of space magic, control and manipulation. The problem however is as you can guess it is the control. But, with your enchanted capacities alongside Ring of Focus, you should be able to manipulate it however you want.] She explained to me while I looked at the ring between my fingers.
I was inspecting the runesmith there. The Lord of Rings hold nothing on what my Quinella could do.
"Which finger does it goes on?" I asked her after finishing my inspection.
[Left-hand middle finger.]
After hearing which finger it goes on I put it on. That moment, I felt like another filter just went through me. I could see things brighter?
[Dont try to rip space here Master, you can't do it here.] Quinella quite simply said that with a knowing look.
"I see...so, this is how locked space looks like. Since I can see it."
[Indeed. I suggest practising space magic where space is not locked and it's nowhere in our backyard I am afraid.] She said that with a sad tone.
"Quite a sadist… giving such toy to me and then I can't use it? I don't know how should I feel about it." I said that while shaking my head with disappointment.
[...Gah! Don't you dare! I was not the one who decided to lock space that no creepy space monsters could enter into our home country! And you know it!] She pointed her finger at me with a blushing look.
"Right… I forgot that… I suppose you are not sadistic to me." I shook my head remembering that part quite perfectly.
[Y-Y-You… are messing with me! So, this is what is… ] She said that with realised look.
[Just you wait! I will have my revenge!] She said that with a cute pout.
A regular human should be terrified. But, I was the one who programmed her basic functions. This means her revenge will be that of either seduction which leads to tease. Or, a similar type of teasing…
Well, it will be fascinating to see her doing things.
~~~
After the check-ups, I went to the testing room. I wanted to test some of my basic strengths. The leap in fundamental strength was enormous.
"Right… Serafall we are going to do some basics fighting."
"Eh? EH? Are you planning to kill me!? Your power is off the charts!!!" Serafall shook her head.
*Sigh*
" I said basics… try using your water powers on me," I said with shrug. I am not planning some Battle of Fates like Dragon Ball Z has or something like that…
"Fine! You should get used to some physical activity!" Serafall raised her hand and Leviathan circle appeared. Moments later large amount of water manifested, like a torrent it rushed towards me.
Honestly… I never fought properly in my life… but, this situation? Something for me just clicks. The moment the water torrent was in front of me I grabbed it with magic pouring from me.
And just like that with a simple spin, I send that torrent of water flying back at Serafall who was looking at me with disbelief.
She only had a few moments to dodge it. Very embarrassingly she jumped out of the way.
"What was that!? It's like you used Kankara on me just now!" The black-haired devil said that with a pouty tone. She slowly got up on her feet moments later.
"Kankara? Not quite...or was it? I don't know how Ajuka's magic works but I calculated the amount of magic you send me and used the same amount to capture it. Then I calculated the best way to redirect it." I explained to her.
"It does sound similar to my uncle's Kankara. But, it's not. Master was able to do it because his magic nature is quite neutral. And he was able quite easily to adapt to the water." Latia said from distance. I could see some sweat on her forehead. Assuming she feels quite out of place with the amount of power being thrown around.
"...Doesnt change the fact that his fighting style is similar!" Serafall huffed and created several balls of ice and started shooting at me…
'This girl… she needs some spanking!'
Less than a second later I started slapping the ice balls away like some paper planes. And started walking forward towards the slightly panicking looking beauty.
Before long she started taking steps back while still trying to do something with her water and ice powers. By this point, she was going overboard and I could use Ars Goetia to calm her down. But, this situation requires direct intervention.
After all of her attacks got slapped away I was in front of her, and behind her, there was a wall. In simpler words… she was cornered. My left hand moved quickly and grabbed both of her hands and lifted them above her. Pinning her in place.
While with my right hand I grabbed her chin and made her look directly at me.
*Nervous Gulp*
"Did I permit you to use anything else apart from water?" I asked her while my gaze was directly on her blue eyes.
"So...hot!"
"Hmm?"
What was that? Did I just hear her voice in my head?
I looked at her more. I could feel...something more…another energy flowing in me…
"...Master your eyes… they just went through something…" Serafall said that with wide eyes. I for a moment still stared at her.
"Those look like Innovator eyes! Is it like for real? That stuff can happen in real life!?"
Did I just read her mind? Psionic powers? Is this psionic energy I am feeling?
Without wasting much time I released her from my hold and I could 'hear' her inner pouting.
My eyes went to Latia and I could hear her intellectual inner self talking.
"Marcus is truly powerful now. I should start my training soon not to be left behind like this."
Heh, even inner monologues are like that.
Then I called for a holographic window and turned it into a mirror. Moments later I looked at myself. My eyes widened seeing electricity flowing through my irises
The pupil was the same, only the iris got duller and now electricity was flowing there the eyes even had some glow in them. Assumingly they could glow in darkness.
What was more fascinating was that the moment this new energy which I believe is psionic calmed down my original eyes returned to how they were before.
"What is that? Did you just turn into Innovator!?" Serafall asked with disbelief.
"In a way… I can feel another type of energy now. And I can access it too." I explained to her as I started channelling this energy. I can feel it that I can quite easily mould it with Touki…
"No...way… isn't it like your third energy now?" Serafall exclaimed with disbelief.
"I don't even know if there existed someone who would have this many energies inside one body!" The black-haired Satan said to herself and I could hear it quite easily now. My mind-reading is rapidly progressing. Which is quite convenient power.
"Yes… it would seem it's psionic of some sort. I think I will be able to do things with my mind."
"Like mind reading? Feeling emotions? Telekinesis, telepathy…" Serafall started telling me this, assuming she is using her otaku knowledge.
"Yeah… that sort of thing. For now, you two go to the workshop and observe my test from there. I will be running a simulation." I said with a thoughtful look. Thankfully I can truly let loose in my simulations and see how much damage I can do with it."
"O-Okay…"
I could feel how Serafall pouted internally for not keeping her like this. While Latia was much more understanding. The blonde walked over to the black-haired Satan and started pulling her out of the room.
Once they are gone. I took a deep breath for a second.
"Begin simulation. New type of energy testing. Send me to New York Aurora."
[Understood. I am transferring 2% of total processing power to this. It should be enough to gather and analyse enough data for it.]
My eyebrow slightly went up… 2% is quite alot. With the amount of processing power. Even 1% is enough to design, simulate, and test new technology.
So, two is double that…
[Begining simulation.]
[Activating Hardlight projection]
[Dispersing Realitus Particles]
[Light Prism Online]
[Simulating starting!]
Moments later the surroundings started to shift… buildings getting constructed, the white ceiling transformed into blue skies, I could feel a slight breeze, a shift in temperature.
A few seconds later I could hear cars, people talking. Sounds of traffic and smell of petrol…
'Uhhh, as primitive as one could get.' I furrowed my eyebrows smelling that.
As much as I loved the internal combustion engine. I got rid of it as quickly as I could in my previous life.
Still, though I am not here for cars…
~~~~~~Inside Simulation~~~~~~
As simulation was extremely realistic… to the point that every single NPC had a personality. Marcus appearance. A man in a lab coat with an extremely dashing appearance instantly got the attention of some of the passing by females.
Not that this fascination lasted alot as he walked over to the closest building and put his hand on it.
Second after his weird behaviour, the building's windows exploded. Making all the people scream from fear as they started running away from that place.
Moments after the building walls started to crack… those cracks soon spread through the whole building before it exploded in all directions.
The blast was quite powerful, sending cars flying as well as damaging other buildings quite a bit.
Before long a purple aura surrounded Marcus as all the cars and remnants of buildings started to float. Their shapes were forcefully changed, going through several different shapes. Stopping at dagger-like shape.
Once the changes were done to these constructs they were sent flying into the tallest skyscraper in the vicinity.
Shredding a portion of the building in the distance. This caused the top of the skyscraper to start falling into the streets below.
Not long after that dust clouds started to spread through the streets.
Purple energies easily blasted the dust away as more buildings started to rise from the ground…
This time he was pulling them out with foundations as a whole. Buildings with multiple floors and sizes were pulled out like they were built from paper instead of concrete or bricks…
Then they started to squeeze themselves, forcefully breaking down and shrinking into perfect balls of concrete, steel, bricks.
"Hmmm, I am getting a hang of this. Aurora, send an opponent for me."
[Any preference?]
"None. Impress me."
[Sure thing.]
Around thirty seconds later Marcus heard a loud whistling sound… next moment a fist rammed into his face.
The teen's eyes widened as he felt being sent flying like a ragdoll going through several rows of buildings...eventually going through the liberty statue like a hot knife through butter.
Marcus snapped from his shock as pain washed through his body. He flipped over creating a platform on which he grabbed himself stopping in the middle of New York Bay.
His eyes scanned the area. Finding the one who punched him.
"Seriously? Aurora? You sending Superman after me?" Marcus said with wide eyes.
[Not any Superman. According to my calculations, he could fight in the top 3 of Worlds Strongest Beings. If you can beat him then you are on that list.] The A.I. smugly said to him, goating him to fight this augmented Superman.
"Heh… I see… I guess let's aim at that position. For this once... let's do things the old fashion way." As the teen inventor said he slowly stood up his spine and neck already fixed itself and he stretched out.
"That one… I felt it." He said that to the famous comic book hero who just arrived in front of him.
"I punched you as hard as I could. I am quite impressed that you are that durable." The Earth's strongest Hero said with disbelief.
"I was not… now I am, however." As Marcus said that he started to float on his own.
Purple aura surrounded him as it slowly started to form into flaming one second later particles of some sort started to float around him as well.
At the moment he successfully combined all three energies. and he started powering himself up with this new power type of energy.
And that world around them started to shake. The hero in front of Marcus by this point was tired of waiting and rushed forwards preparing to punch again.
This time teen himself meet the punch with his own.
The collision send shocks waves through the whole area. Marcus grimaced as he felt his right hand just break.
He quickly swept with his left sending a space rent. A distorted slash of space.
The blue spandex-wearing hero quickly dodged this with his inhuman speed. Pity that he forgot that behind him was one of the world biggest cities.
The space rent easy cut almost all the skyscrapers in Manhattan flying somewhere into New Jersey cutting buildings in its path.
"NOOO! You bastard!" Superman said with wide eyes as he realised what just happened. Fury manifested in his eyes as the Super Hero rushed forward. Marcus quickly meet him midair as the battle of super speed and super strength send shockwaves through the whole area.
Marcus insane adaptability kicked in as after meeting him head on his body started to adapt. As adrenaline was rushing through his body his mind started working like a computer analysing the movement of the Super Hero. While same time finding ways how to improve his performance.
For this, his mind delved into his memory and started analysing any martial arts he encountered through his two lives.
Before he could even realise it he already knows, Taekwondo, Kung Fu, Karate, Judo, Russian ARB…
In less than 3 minutes of being outperformed by Superman. Marcus already was fighting back with a multitude of different martial arts.
With a powerful elbow strike, the teen inventor send the Earth Greatest Hero flying into the bay of New York.
The black-haired teen then casually lifted his right hand and the ball of Power of Destruction manifested. He started pouring his new type of energy into this one the ball rapidly started to grow in size.
Before long it could easily block the sun he then dropped the ball towards the bay.
"Let's see if you can survive this," Marcus said quite curiously. As he watched the P.O.D like a meteorite descent into the bay.
Moments later the explosion evaporated the whole water in the area was instantly erased and portions of New York were gone.
"Hmm…"
The teen eyes widened for a second.
As Superman was right in front of him. His cape was half gone, there is some bleeding on him. Like cut eyebrow, some missing pieces of his spandex.
"No wonder you have title man of steel. That blast had enough power to erase any lesser being." Marcus said with disbelief seeing that this dude tanked that blast! For a second he thought Quinella is pulling a leg for him. But, that's against her programming.
The Earth's mightiest Hero looked around and saw the state of the city. He frowned deeply.
"Let's change our battling grounds. I am sure space will fit us better than this." As he said that Superman rushed up to leave the planet.
Marcus for a second rolled his eyes and ignited his purple aura rushing forward with similar speed to superman.
Moments later they were in space. Below them was the blue planet.
"Let's end this!" The superhero roared with the furious look he was not holding back at all this time and Marcus meet him head-on.
Before long another fistfight started which send shockwaves easily felt by people below on the planet.
Nonetheless, Superman instantly noticed that he was losing even in direct contact with the sun. Marcus progress in martial arts was pushing the hero back.
A single slip was needed and the black-haired teen smashed his fist powered by P.O.D into the spandex-wearing hero gut.
The blast sent the guy flying but the teen was already waiting for him on the other side. He grabbed superman by the head and used his space ring to appear on the moon.
He slammed with enough force into the moon to create a massive crater.
"I would like to see how you can survive point-blank range. Space and destruction at the same time…" Marcus said directly into his mind with his psionic powers.
Next moment the moon which was orbiting Earth for millions of years was shattered into pieces by a blast of black and red energy.
~~~~~~Workshop~~~~~~
Serafall and Latia was looking at this battle with shell shocked look. They had a chance to see their Master truly going out the old fashion way.
Against one of the most famous heroes in Earth's History of comic books!
Even Latia knew who he was and she didn't read much on comics! Nonetheless, it was an awesome battle and harshly reminded them how insanely powerful their Master got through this!
The most shocked of them all was Venelana who was in the background watching this with disbelief.
This is a movie, not a battle! How can that room tank this much damage!?
"Seriously… how adaptable is he! Superman broke his spine and neck! He recovered nearly instantly after it! Not only that but he started utilising Martial Arts through the middle of the fistfight!
And it only got better through the next few exchanges!" Serafall said with wide eyes.
[That is why my Master and Creator is the 'perfect' human being!] Quinella said with a happy tone. What she saw was simply gorgeous! She took a bunch of pictures of her hot Master!