Carmilla groggily opened her eyes as she looked around. She was feeling fantastic… sort off.
Her body was extremely drained in a very positive manner.
While it's good, it's bad at the same time.
[You finally up. For Ultimate Class Vampire you sure sleep alot.] The silver-haired vampire queen snapped out from her drowsiness when she heard an unfamiliar female voice.
Her eyes ended on an extremely beautiful woman with silver platinum hair… it's like it's made from glass of some sort which reflects colours from it…
"Who...are you?"
[I am our Master's Assistant, the Artificial Intelligence Quinella. I am powering all of the systems in this place.] The woman said with quite an arrogant tone.
The Vampire queen could only frown a little bit. Well, she can understand where the arrogance comes from. But, isn't she a… machine?
[No I am not. I am not something primitive as a machine. Our Master passed that stage when he was fourteen. Do you think he will stay in such an early stage for that long? No, by this point, I am a soul inhabiting his Technomancy.] She said that while arrogantly brushing her hair.
"I see… my apologies then. There is a reason why you were waiting for me?" Carmilla tried to get into her diplomatic persona, for a second not thinking about the possibility that this artificial intelligence can read minds...
[Apart from giving some gadgets and telling you that we will be working together to set up security around vampire countries. We are back at base, and you need to get a shower.] Quinella said that while frowning and pointing at the Vampire Queen current looks.
The fellow Silver-haired woman looked at herself. She was bathed in her man's seed. A consequence of her actions. She tried to play with him and return got played like some sex toy.
A new experience that's for sure. For a vampire with couple hundred years of experience… While she did sleep with a few men a long time ago which turned into her meals after it. This was something completely new.
She was outperformed and fucked into submission.
"I will clean myself up. Is...our Master around?" She asked about the elephant in the room.
[No, he left hours ago. You have been asleep for 14 hours. The flight back lasted less than an hour. The airships are already docked in and S.P.B.A. alongside the crew already left the place. You and your assistant are the only people on this ship. But, don't worry Master has assigned a maid for you two.]
Carmilla felt quite ashamed hearing that. She was out for that long!? She doesn't even sleep that long regularly! This just shows how dominated she was!
Her eyes went to Elmenhilde who was sitting there with an embarrassed look. The girl looks subdued just like she is and trying to look as small as possible.
"I see… It was my fault… the man was… hard to resist…" The Vampire Queen finally admitted that she bite more than she can chew.
[Of course he is. Our Master grew up around Serafall Leviathan and Venelana Gremory. Two of his pillars. Serafall spend years trying to convert him to reincarnate and become her Queen.]
The silver-haired Vampire queen's eyes went wide hearing that… Right… He is Solomon's successor and he has his Pillars! Wait! Serafall and Venelana? Those are like high profile devils!
[Oh, so you finally understood? Good. Master played it nice. And you ended up as his relief stress.]
The Vampire beauty started laughing hearing that. It was a good sort of laugh. Though her whole body is tired… she needs some blood…
"I was used as relief stress! This is amusing! And quite refreshing! Can't remember the last time I felt like this!"
[Good that you finding some entertainment in all this. But we have things to do.] Quinella said with some frown. She thought she will be all be rile up this woman. The assistant wanted to put her in place for trying to use her Master. But, appears this Vampire only found it amusing…
~~~~~~Marcus, Earlier~~~~~~
Right, so what is a soul?
Layman terms is a conscious energy… emotion, or something among those lines.
The best example for this is cross-referencing with readings I got from Ddraig.
Dragons at the earliest form were just massive expanse of energy. Which developed consciousness… when you develop consciousness you hand in hand start developing emotions.
This is what I observed from Quinella. She was the best test for that.
From using unnecessary actions like cuddling. Which she doesn't need to as there is no purpose and she doesn't feel anything, It's not even in her programming to do that.
Those are signs of a soul. Now that I have the necessary data from the Graal gear I can apply the filters for it…
Sure enough… I finally was able to see… souls…
Putting on the Aurora glasses I looked at a mirror and saw… my soul. It was… bright… and purple… does my psionic energy does something to it?
After that, I added the filter into the Diamond Core Heart network and from that on I was able to see souls in people in my birth country.
I even checked Kouh. I was able to see the souls of devils. Like Sona and Rias. Their souls were… much darker than other reincarnated devils. In truth, I could see a darkening slowly happening to these reincarnated souls.
If I could cross-reference this… this means that Big G had quite a bit of understanding about Souls. As he used similar filters for souls. One can easily control this way which souls he accepts into his Heaven and which ones he doesn't and sends them to hell.
'Well whatever… I don't care. About this cliche nonsense. The dude truly wanted everything his way. And it quite worked. Now however he is gone and all his perfect work derailed quite a bit.'
Instead of thinking about darkening and whatever I focused on something more important. Turning numbers into souls…
The key for that is the logs of the Sephiroth Graal gear. Not the cups themselves. But how the gear records the souls.
After finding that I added the formula to our research on souls.
"Quinella dearest if you would?" I said after pressing enter the process has started.
I looked at the bar slowly starting to rise from 0 to 0.01%
[Of course, leave this to me. I already started cross-referencing the moment we entered into our territory.]
As she said that the bar went from 0.01% to 47% then next moment to 100% from there out. Data started flowing and calculations went through rapid speed.
My beautiful assistant has diverted most available processing power for this. My eyes could barely keep up with the maths happening in front of me.
Instead of watching this, I went to projects and checked something else.
Project: Biological Assistant Quinella: 47%
Then going to 48%, followed by 48.5%... Yep, it's beautiful to watch that percentage going up in this specific project. Other projects long ago went into part 2 or even into successor projects.
Simply put I a leaving the bulk of work to Quinella and instead I went over to development projects.
The Docks and the last stretch of my original railways designs are almost over.
Then instead of that, I went over to something I missed… and that is where I am going to dock my airships?
So for that, I accessed the satellite images and cross-referenced them with aeroplane paths. Finding the best spot where no planes will ever smash by accident and stuff like that.
Honestly, I don't care about planes and stuff… but, the garbage will fall into my backyard and that is annoying…
To get over this I found the perfect height I can use and it's not far from the space centre too.
So, while Quinella was doing her calculations and building the bridges between life, soul and body. I am designing the airship port for my airships.
And of course, checking the current project running in Space Centre the heart for Ars Almadel Solomonis is almost complete.
What is going to be interesting is launching it into space!
Unlike others, there won't be any rockets, or something as primitive as that. No, it's going to be accelerated into space. Through magically build mass accelerator. Courtesy of Gundam.
Sometimes you only need to watch anime to learn a good replacement method for rockets.
After checking at Space Centre I returned to work on the airship docks.
Taking a shape of a tower. Stretching close to a kilometre. This is of course after checking multiple sources and making sure it doesn't going to hit any planes or other stuff.
Once the form is taken I started drawing the building in my main workshop because for once I missed working here.
The tower building quickly turned into a round shape. Making around 5 areas where the Daedalus-class airship can dock. At one level. In total there will be three levels where it can dock.
Making it in total a building where 15 Airships can dock…
Walking around the building and inspecting it from different angles I started working on the interior of the building…
'Hmm… a centre of some sorts? Communications centre? If I build one here I can make Quinella able to keep in touch with her processing power. It going to take time to do that with my Apsos-class station and the smaller satellites I am planning to build…'
Without wasting too much time I started to design the interior of this airship docks.
Well, along the way I have decided to add some more use to it after remembering the Mass magic accelerator in the space centre.
I can repurpose it and make the airship docks capable of collecting ships from space and pulling them into the docks.
Or sending them into space as well…
"Whoa! Master, you just came back and you already working on a mega building!?" Serafall glided next to me and hugged me. Tightly taking in my smell…
Is she a dog?
"Heh… you had some fun with that Vampire Queen?" The black-haired devil beauty asked me with a coy smile.
"I did… she is an amusing woman. I will be keeping her around." I said with a casual shrug as I made the building spin for me with a finger motion.
"Oh… I see… she tried to seduce you but she was clueless with your origins and things like that." Serafall said with a happy nod. From the looks of it, she is happy with this development…
"Yes. Now I have vampires under my banner. Mostly females though. Which is quite fascinating." I said that while remembering the ratio of females and males of vampires now I have.
"Hehehe, vampire maid squad?" Serafall asked cutely. Oh, I know that she wants me to indulge in my sins but that can wait.
I flicked with my finger on her forehead.
"Oww!" She pulled back and massaged her forehead.
"No. Maybe in future after Carmilla solidified her position. Now she is going to rebuild… after getting back on her feet that is." I said that with a knowing smile.
Serafall lewdly grinned. After seeing my expression.
"Right. Now enough about this mundane stuff and into more interesting stuff." I motioned at the building.
"Is...that a…"
"Airship docks."
"Ohh… we truly moving to sci-fi area!" She quickly started walking around the holographic design.
"How big it's going to be!?"
"The whole area is going to be covered around 5 kilometres. The building itself is going to be around 1 kilometre in height."
"Why... five kilometres? That's quite a bit of land!" She asked with wide eyes.
"Because of these…" I said to her as I zoomed out for her the design. Just outside the docks, a few kilometres outside the building, dagger-shaped buildings are surrounding the airship docks.
"What are those!?" She asked with a super curious tone.
"Have you ever played civilisation series before?" I asked her.
"Umm...no? Too nerdy for me!"
I deadpanned at her for a moment. Before sighing.
"It's an elevator."
"To where?"
"Space…"
"..."
"..."
"Oh, okay…" She said that with a nod… before her eyes went wide.
"WAIT! WHAT!?" She asked with disbelief.
"Yeah. At first, I was thinking just to make docks for airships on Earth but, then I realised that I can use them as truly REAL docks in multiple senses.
Meaning for airship and spaceships. Honestly, there is no difference there. Confiscator can travel space just as easily."
"...It can!?"
"Duh… its fully sealed of vessel. I only need to do some small retrofits and it's spaceworthy." I casually rolled my eyes at her. Daedalus-class is cream of the crop of designing! I spend the whole two days on that!
"Wow… just wow… so how it's going to work!? How they are going to lift into space!?" She asked nearly pleaded.
"The dagger buildings you see there are accelerator circles fused with space magic circles. Courtesy of my basic techniques of M.T.M. and Space motion magic from Caliburn."
"M.T.M and Caliburn will allow this to happen!?" She asked with disbelief.
"I know right? Remember me working in my garage with Castor? That's quite literally the same tech only on a massive scale."
I motioned for the hologram to activate. And the dagger-shaped building glowed sending pillars of light into space. Creating a corridor, inside this magic corridor, there are magic circles.
There are the very same accelerator circles used in almost all my stuff. From the guns, rifles, to Diamond Core Heart.
"Whoa… so it created a corridor which is the lift?" Serafall finally connected the dots.
"A technomancy version of a lift. It completely negates gravity and accelerates the vessel right into space.
Honestly speaking it's far more powerful than any rocket could. If one does its math right it could easily launch the vessel into a specific trajectory right into deep space." I used the holograms to show a simulation of how Confiscator could fly off on this.
"Oh… like a slingshot or something that was ejected…" She said with an awed look.
"Yep. Abusing the shit out of gravity while ignoring it completely at the same time." I said while chuckling, then I noticed that my favourite blonde was not there.
"And where is Latia? I thought she was with you?" I asked Serafall.
She pouted at me for a second.
"She is busy in the capital. The HQ of your mundane company is up and running. For now, it's just an office floor. But, it will be rapidly expanding soon enough. Latia is waiting for a 'reason' to expand again. Like for example the official opening of the shops." The current Leviathan explained to me.
"I see… well, you can all play this game if you want it sounds too much of a drag." I shrugged at her. I see no reason why not just build a skyscraper. It will be the first one on this side of Europe perfectly honest. Maybe as big as that Skyscraper in Dubai? wait! It's not built yet here!
"Right… I don't know why you are grinning like that but I need to return to Underworld. A meeting. And you most likely know what kind of meeting it is." She said that with a sigh. I for a second was confused.
"I do?"
"It's about you! Silly!" She clarified with an exaggerated sigh.
"Me? Strange. I didn't do anything to devils for them to be all talk about me." I slightly stroke my chin thinking for a bit.
"Your invasion of the vampires. Most of the pantheons are talking about it! Even more reclusive ones like the Irish one is asking questions! What you did is big!"
"Big? Don't be ridiculous. It was not even an invasion. I didn't brough out big guns. I didn't even initiate offensive protocols for Quinella. You taking this far too serious." I shook my head in disbelief. I haven't even prepared land vehicles or artillery not to mention real Gundams.
Not that I would start something like an 'invasion'. I don't do wars. Even if decide to do that then I would follow what I did in Command and Conquer games. First orbital bombardment then send some bombers followed by artillery and then send in tanks and for the last the infantry.
One needs to follow specific invasion protocol…
"...If you say so." She shook her head it would seem the way we see stuff is different. Well, I gonna make her play some strategy games so that she would see how I do conquests…
"Anyway. I have to go. A meeting to attend too. While you should rest. It was a long day for you." She said that while snuggling into me. Behaving like a cat this time.
Much better than a dog. Yes, cats are the best. Especially the lions.
After a quick kiss, she walked out towards the teleportation point.
Leaving me alone in the workshop. My eyes went on the airship docks.
'This is going to be good. I will be able to do some moonwalking… no puns intended…
Now that I think about it… I punched through the moon first before even walking on it!
How strange is that!?'
Snorting for a bit. I saved up the project and started walking towards the living rooms. Time to find my cat and maids!
What an interesting day today, got the grail sacred gear, had fun with Vampire Queen and started designing a space elevator…
It's one of the more productive days…
~~~~~~Latia Astaroth~~~~~~
The blonde beauty looked around at her new office. There was some satisfaction on her face. She thought she will have one of these kinds of offices one day. Maybe when she is in her thirties or forties. Knowing how hard it is to please devils which are too attached to their old style of bureaucracy.
Where one needs to work twenty plus years to get some sort of promotion to get an office of your own.
Even though she is a member of the pillar clan. Her being from a branch clan requires her to work extra hard.
Nonetheless, she brushed those thoughts aside and focused on now. Her being summoned like that and then being contracted to Marcus was the golden ticket to the top.
Now she is the Head executive of Goldman Industries. Even before becoming twenty years old! While she had to fake her age to eighteen as she needs to be an adult to work full-time, it doesn't truly matter.
She was at the head of a company that will dominate the market in many things. Well, she could prefer that this company would be worldwide. But, Marcus only cares about his small country. Honestly, he was just being petty.
Latia knows full well that many people will ask and even insist that he should open its branch stores all over the world but Marcus won't going to do it. Simply put he won't even going to sell his stuff outside his county boundaries.
Why? Because he decided so. And what can she do about it? Honestly, the blonde tried bedroom tactics, seducing, persuasion, reason… nothing worked she even told him that he doesn't even need to care about the mundane side of things.
Yet, he decided that for once… the world shall spin around him… instead of money…
After hearing that she banged her head into the wall. And decided not to question him anymore… arguing with nuts inventor is pointless…
No wonder her uncle doesn't have a wife or anyone he likes...its hard to work with people like that. Scary enough they have the firepower to be stubborn and unreasonable.
Thankfully she likes and even loves her boyfriend. In the end, she doesn't care. The only thing she cares about in this situation is her clan profiting and fulfilling her boyfriend's orders.
Speaking of orders…
She just received an update on land acquisition…
Using her fancy laptop she went over and checked this update.
Her eyebrow slightly went up.
"What in… he wants that much land!? Why does he want that much land? Aurora do you know?" Latia spoke without restrain she know well enough that the A.I. is always listening and ready to assist.
[Yes. Our Master in all of his haste forgot that he doesn't have a place to dock his ships so he started planning for this.] That moment the screen changed and the blonde saw the design for airship docks.
"This… this is going to be humongous…"
[The main docking building will be around 1 kilometre tall. It will be able to hold 15 Daedalus-class airships. In three levels. While the true reason for such large land is the space elevator…"]
"..."
"..."
"...excuse me? Did you just say… space elevator?" Latia needed to double-check on the last word. She just heard 'space elevator!'
[Correct. I think it's about time we build something like that. Space is vast and there is an ample amount of things to discover!]
The blonde beauty just leaned into the leather chair. Her brain tried to process what she just heard…
They will be going to space soon! And not in just a one-time thing. No, this thing will make space travel a regular occurrence. Making it normal to travel in and back from space with enormous vessels as well. Daedalus-class airship can be easily transformed into a cargo ship too. It was built in a way that the hangar section can be changed into cargo hold.
Meaning that they can easily visit other planets and collect rare or never seen resources.
Honestly, she knew she will go to space or some parallel dimension especially when her life is tied to someone who can casually design a space elevator…
However, she thought this will be much later. Maybe when Marcus does something down to earth first…
"How long… how long this is going to be built according to your estimation?" Latia asked curiously.
[Less than a year. Even with my capacities.]
The blonde beauty slightly raised her eyebrow. That's… fast!
A kilometre tall building! With smaller twelve buildings which are hundreds of metres tall… and it going to be done in less than a year!?
She is not even mentioning the ritual like carvings on the surface of this place. Or the underground stuff he is going to build which is a massive station for gathering of soldiers or other equipment…
[I am still going through multiple sets of calculations and running simulations to make sure it's possible and the space elevator won't going to mess with the planet.
Nonetheless, I suggest you start acquiring land for our Master. He is quite embarrassed that he forgot about the docks and wants to fix that problem soon.] Aurora said with an amused tone. Assuming she finds blushing Marcus cute.
"I see… then I will start with this. Most of my jobs already are done. Now it's just daily management." Latia said with a nod she had thoughtful look.
Honestly. The land acquisition of this scale is going to be annoying. For one she is barely keeping herself under the radar as it is. The amount of land she bought is already staggering.
If not for the fact that she is free to use any means. Which is hypnosis and mind-altering she would be under magnifying glass. Their company already owns more than any other company or private person in this land.
'I suppose sinking my claws into government is not out of question.' The blonde thought to herself she needs the minister responsible for land management under her control.
Thankfully she can use any means and no one is going to say anything. Vampires rule their lands with hypnosis for hundreds of years. She can do that too…
Honestly, she would prefer if they would take over the country.
'I should bring this up to Marcus. He wants to do things in the open. Taking over the nation would be much better than just market control…' Latia thought while stroking her chin. Honestly, doing this kind of thing is much, much better than staying in Underworld and doing some boring stuff in barely moving government.
With a smirk worthy of a devil she started writing emails to her clansmen. She needs to discuss the best way of doing both things at the same time.
~~~~~~Marcus~~~~~~
Once I was back in the living room I was having a hard time deciding what to do next. Should I go to my bed and read some stuff? Or watch TV?
Thinking for a bit I decided to watch some TV. After spending several hours designing the method of uplifting ancient recorded videos and showing them in full 8k resolution. I haven't used the TV much for anything else…
'Oh yeah we had some movie nights, but those are recorded movies, not tv…'
Without wasting much time I dropped on the couch and took some pillows. Making it into a makeshift seat. After getting comfortable I looked for the remove…
…
…
It was on the other side of the table…
"Right… improvisation it is then…"
Lifting my hand and pointing at the tv remote, a purple glow surrounded the remote and it started to float towards me.
"A couch potato dream… psionic powers… I could make a fortune from that alone…" As I said that the remote ended up in my hand. I pressed the TV button and the black screen came to life.
The first thing I saw was the first channel… it was my birth country first channel… or as I used to call it the Old men channel… the only thing I used to remember about it is the concerts and some national events… or even the pope election stuff happening in Italy… uhh...even the reporter used to be bored talking about those events…
So, without wasting time I flipped to BTV or also known as the Baltic channel, the only thing I could remember about this one is Pokemon at 16:00 and WWE in the late evenings on Friday night…
Switch…
TV3… Simpsons and Friday movie night…
Right...switch, switch…
Eventually, I ended up into Scandinavian channels… then, Germany channels… skipped French altogether. Their language make me laugh… while I have nothing against laughing I want to watch something interesting…
Eventually ended up in Discovery channel…
Yep… at this moment I remembered that I was living in 2007 Earth. And the tv shows are old well new to this period. But they were old for me because I saw them a long time ago…
So, it was strange seeing stuff like West Coast Customs. It's kind of good tuning cars show. Based in LA…
Without wasting any more time I decided to watch this…
It feels nostalgic and quite amusing to watch things being done in old style. No robotic hands. No holograms, no A.I. assistants. No changes to the engine. If it was me I would tune it up to my standards and put more electronics just to increase the overall performance of the car.
This does remind me that I have not fixed the BMW in my garage…
In the end, it was nice seeing classics on tv like that. After that I watched some dudes getting gold from the bottom of the lake…
Reminded me that series like that exist…
"Meh…"
I would rather collect old ship...wrecks…
Oh, oh, OH…
A 'smile' appeared on my face… oh yes… This is going to be Good…
I brushed my finger and a hologram appeared in front of me.
Quickly going to google I entered something simple.
Bismarck sink location…
And yep… it's right there… even on map… these guys… they like giving away such free info…
Opening another window this time. A project…
Project Scavenger… collecting shipwrecks… because why not?
Going through more known ships like
Musashi, Yamato, Bismarck, the worlds biggest warships. Then of course most cultural ship of them all. The Titanic…
All of them were tagged and added to the Project after that I did go to Wiki and started looking for famous ships like the trio of the worlds largest warships.
"Hmm? What in… Enterprise? Wait… hold on…" thinking for a bit… I tried to recall this ship being sunk… my eyes widened for a bit… no It was not sunk in my previous life… a butterfly effect? Or it's because the supernatural is real? I bet Susanoo sunk it because he wanted to figure out how unsinkable it was.
A Gods petty revenge for being conquered by Americans...
Nonetheless, after tagging such a legend of a ship for collection, I went to others…
Noticing another wreckage by the name Belfast…
'Well, you won't going to end up as a museum in London that's for sure…'
Tagging this ship as well, I continued to look for more…
Eventually decided that for now, these are enough as I will need to adjust my docks and turn them into drydocks as well as shipyard…
But, for now, I need to re-learn my history it seems some facts are different. So, for that, I went to the video library on the tv and went over some documentaries.
More specifically, sea battles, which ships sunk, how different the wars were because of those.
With a smile, I noticed an American documentary about their Legendary Aircraft carrier Enterprise… with a smirk I started watching it. Oh, yeah tell me where it sunk and stuff like that…
I will need that…
After getting myself into the show I felt a couple of presences. Before long I was surrounded from both sides.
A familiar smell assaulted my nose. It was the smell of wild nature…
"You would make good friends with Ares. That brother of mine likes everything which makes things explode." The Moon Goddess said softly as my hand wrapped around her. While my other went around lion girl on the other side.
"No doubt… it is art," I said with a smile as I looked at the massive ship in action.
She snorted hearing that.