Five Years have passed in a flash since the incident with Telos Karma.

After I and Rizevim killed all those Sacred Gear users, caused the destruction of one Longinus, and additionally, I took two of them home, tensions between Three Biblical Factions were becoming even worse. Heaven retaliated by sending several Ten-Winged Cadre-Class Angels to kill all devils operating on Earth.

Fortunately, most of the killed devils on Earth were loyalists of the Four Great Satans, and clansmen of the Beelzebub, Asmodeus, and Leviathan Clan. Just a little information leaks from my side and bribing the right people, I could easily get several of my future enemies killed.

After that, skirmishes were more often, and now even Satan-Class entities clashed here and there. War was near, probably it will erupt in the following year, as everything was going to fuck. Grigori, Devils, and Heaven, were already only a step away from unleashing slaughter and destruction on each other.

During these past five years, I have spent most of my time preparing for the Great War. Everybody could see, that after the death of the Church's Sacred Gear Users, most eyes from Heaven turned to Devils.

When I thought about it, Lucifer probably just wanted to provoke war. Killing Sacred Gear users was just a bonus. It was a good move from his death, as he achieved two things with one move.

After these five years, my strength didn't increase much, but my Clan Trait Devour has reached Master-ranked mastery, which was a nice surprise. I have also started learning a new branch of Magic, called Mysticism.

Mysticism was focused on rituals and various abstract and obscure usages of magic. It required extreme comprehension and understanding of magic, to properly master Mysticism. Usually, it was practiced only by very strong Arcanists in the Astral Boundary.

More changes have happened in my territory.

Both of my Fianceés, Venelana, and Grayfia have taken up their roles in the management of my assets. Grayfia was basically the general manager of my territory, as she had a talent for administration work. Thanks to her management and administration skills, the entire territory was working like a perfect machine.

While Venelana was managing all my business ventures, increasing my profits of Soul Coins. She had talent in the business and was a good businesswoman. I completely entrusted her with all companies I had across the Underworld, as I didn't have time for managing it.

Both of them were also at the Pinnacle of the Ultimate-Class, and soon would be reaching Satan-Class, maybe in less than one year. My faction grew with each passing day. The political situation in the Underworld was pretty interesting.

There existed basically several sub-factions of Devil. Satan Clans, then 72 Pillars and Extra Devil Clans. Most of the time, 72 Pillars had rather a negative relationship between them, due to members of the Satan-Clans would often look down on those of 72 Pillars.

Thanks to my unique heritage, I gathered a lot of political support among the 72 Pillars and Extra Devil Clans, which would be essential to my later plans.

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On the other side, Hela has been training my army. She could reach Greater God Stage at any moment given, as she almost completely digested the Divine Spark obtained from Ereshkigal.

It had stabilized at the stable number of fifty million, which was one of the largest armies in the Underworld. Most importantly, all of my soldiers were peak Middle-Class already.

I have spent an enormous amount of money, to bring all soldiers to that level. 150 High-Grade Divine Crystals were used in rituals to help strengthen my army, as I wanted to have the strongest and best army in the Underworld.

Commanding Officers in the army were already High-Class, and there were thousands of them, under the leadership of 25 Ultimate-Class Generals of my Legions.

I have already tasked all Generals to keep an eye on promising soldiers with strong loyalty that would become part of my personal guard when I became the Emperor.

"Zeoticus, a word has come from the Yestera that the all resources on the plane have been mined up already."

Said the melodious voice, as it woke up me from the meditation.

I opened my eyes and saw Grayfia standing before me, in the more revealing outfit as she looked at me.

"Then it is time to mine Planar Core."

I muttered.

What underwent even more exponential growth was my mechanical legion and arcanotech in the Underworld as a whole.

I personally had an army of 25 million Drones, 10 million Hydralisks, 10,000 Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries, and a complete voidfleet, consisting of x100 Lunar-Class Cruisers, x25 Avenger-Class Grand Cruisers, x5 Destroyer-Class Battlecruiser and soon-to-be finished one Emperor-Class Battleship.

Arcanotechnology could be divided into Nine Levels. For example Arachne-type Arcane Mechanical Automatons, Arachne Drones were Low-End Level 1 Arcanotech, they had combat prowess of peak Low-Class. While Arachne Hydralisks were High-End Level 1 Arcanotech and had combat prowess of peak High-Class, which was especially terrifying.

On the other side, Lunar-Class Cruiser Voidship was Level 2 Arcanotech that had firepower comparable to the average Ultimate-Class. Avenger-Class Grand Cruiser was Level 3 Arcanotech, which had firepower comparable to something I call Legendary-Class. Between Ultimate-Class and Satan-Class, the rank existed in the Astral Boundary, but not in the Dimensional Gap, as the Laws differed slightly. Destroyer-Class Battle Cruiser was Level 4 Arcanotech that had firepower around the average Satan-Class. And finally, Emperor-Class Battleship had firepower around Super-Devil Class.

I have decided to develop more Voidfleet than the Arcane Mechanical Automatons. For first, resources were limited in the Dimensional Gap, and Mechs, won't let me travel through the Dimensional Gap safely.

"Okey... we shall depart for the Yestera then. Is everything ready there?"

I asked while I stood up from my desk.

"Yes, General Amyke has already retreated with all soldiers and Mechanical Legions are back in the Gremory Territories. Mechanicum is managing the last works and relocations of the Arcanotech Factories and production lines."

Said Grayfia with her usual stoic expression.