After the excitement finally settled, Akira said:
"I have 3300 SU currently, and we are short of 1700 SU to get you the starting system core" Akira
"How did the system calculates the rewards" Hina
"If I use exorcise it awards full bonus equal to the demon's lvl multiplied by 100. If the demon is killed any other way it rewards half of that"
"So at least a lvl 17 spiderman or a sum of few lower ones" Hina concluded
"Now we need to lure some here and do the job" Akira pondered
Hina picked her notebook from her bag and gave it to Akira
"What have you done Okasa? All these names and dates?" Akira
"While you were with Frostbane, I asked some questions those demon touched, who exited the church. I though it could be useful somehow" Hina
"And they just gave you their personal details??" Akira
"Well I said it was deacon Frostbane request, as the lord Voldemort commands" Hina snickered.
"So we have a list of 27 names and for how long they have been demon touched. I can guess that those who has been longer affected will be higher level" Akira concluded
"Lets call this one. He has been demon touched for 4 years so far." Hina
"Call him??" Akira
"I am ordering for you a home delivery pizza" hahah Hina
"Make sure you are ready with the setup to receive our guest!" Hina said and picked up the phone:
"Oh, hello Mr Fuji. I am Mrs Ryu from this morning at he church...Yes, I am fine thank you. Look I have a daughter, who had to renew her vows to the church due to some health problems....Yes, she is beautiful. And I've wanted to surprise my husband who is on a work trip at the moment.
...Yes indeed, I want me and my daughter to please him together, when he returns home. But I am not sure how she will manage with the task...Yes, that is why I need your help. This is my home address if you would be able to visit us today..? Oh great? You are on the way, already?..
How marvellous, I will make sure my daughter is prepared at best of her abilities to please you" Hina ended the call
"Home delivery?!" Akira
"Home delivery! Hina
"I will setup my gear in the guest bedroom" Akira
Not long after Mr Fuji appeared in their front gate. He was a well built man with a casual clothes.
"Welcome Mr Fuji, please come in" Hina
"You have a beautiful house Mrs Ryu. I am much impressed" Mr Fuji
"It is all thanks to the hard work of my husband. That is why I need my daughter to be fully ready for her father's return.
"Lets waste no time then, where is she?" Mr Fuji
"Come upstairs, she is waiting in the guests bedroom" Hina
...
knock knock
"Akira dear, I have Mr. Fuju with me. Can we come in? Hina
"Yes okasa, please come in" Akira
Mr Fuji entered and saw Akira standing with her hands behind her back
"Ohoho what a fine young devotee. I feel it will take some time until I am done with her" Mr Fuji grinned and started to undress
"Now girl as the great lord Voldemort commands, strip your clothes and bend over there on the bed"
Akira approached the man silently and quickly sprayed him at the face.
"What is this, Are you attacking me? The man was surprised but quickly regained his bearings and punched Akira in the stomach.
"I am leaving and I will report the church that this girl is non redeemable"
If this was Akira from the Ueno park few days ago she would have been knocked down on the ground squirming in pain.
The new Akira faltered for a moment and stood up staring the man's back, who was about to leave the room.
"Who said you can leave!" Akira said cold
"EXORCISE"
Mr. Fuji was startled, and turned to face Akira. He swung his fist aiming Akira's face.
Plock!
Mr Fuji' eyes shot open in horror.
The girl just put her hand to meet his fist. And then just grabbed it. She was holding his fist with an absurd strength and was twisting it in spiral motion, making his body lower and squirm from the pain.
"Aaaargh" Fuji
The girl in front of him was grinning.
She was looking at him like a hungry predator, and he was her pray.
"aaaaaargh" Mr Fuji
"CONSUME"
[swiftness +1]
"gaaaraahtt.. Aghhh" Mr Fuji screamed from the pain inflicted by the consume spell
spell counter 5...4..3...2...1
Mr Fuji collapsed on the floor panting, his gaze looked unfocused and he had tears running.
[+2100 SU , balance 5 400 SU]
level 3 strength 17 swiftness 17 vitality 16 intelligence 16 soul 36 mana 70/360 mana reg 3/min SU 5400 HP 151/160
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"Okasa, pass me the spray please, I will try again" Akira
psshht psshsht
This time the miasma worked as intended. The man's eyes became vacant.
"What happened dear, are you all right. Did he hit you badly? Let me see, quickly lift your shirt"
"Okasa, I am fine, I took just 9 damage from that punch and I have 151 of 160 HP"
"What I don't believe some numbers"
"Sigh.. Akira lifted her shirt and showed a little bruised rib."
"Does it hurt? Hina
"It is fading already, And my HP regeneration of 1,6 per minute. I will be healed to full for exactly 5 minutes"
"HMM" Hina
"Please okasa have some faith in me" Akira
"All right then, what about him?" Hina
"I think the miasma spell is not working properly on the spiderman" Akira
"It looks like it is working at the moment thou" Hina
"Well he is now human, the demon is erased" Akira
"I see"
"We have to adjust the strategy a little, but overall it is the same. We lure them here, incapacitate/restrain. Then give it a full consume run and at the end kill the demon larvae with exorcise"
"So we will need a place to hold them until the process is completed. For the higher levels it could take some time" Hina
"I was thinking for the basement. We can install some equipment there. If possible some construction work as well" Akira
"Hmm yes and it is easy to clean if someone piss or shit themselves" Hina
"What?" Akira
"What do you think? Can you hold a person for 20 hours restrained and prevent him unleashing his body needs?" Hina
"I think you are right... So some proper ventilation should be added" Akira
"OK, lets finish with Mr Fuji here and have some dinner" Hina
Akira commanded the man to go home, sleep and in the morning he will remember felling on the ground because of a flu, hurting his body and hand. Of course he was ordered to forget ever meeting them.
Hina paid the Fuji's taxi and went back home.
"I will prepare dinner so be ready in 60 minutes. Hina patted Akira's head and left for the kitchen.
Akira went back to her room, pulled a drawing sketchbook and started to work.
Later, they had finished the dinner and Akira called Kornelius.
"Hey partner are you there?" Akira
"What time is it? Oh Akira it is you? Kornelius sounded tired.
"I am sorry to wake you up, but Okasa really wants to see the system with her own eyes"
"Oh right, of course. Huh you got the SU ready. You know it's abnormal, the speed you gain SU."
"I was thinking, I am doing bad on that department" Akira
"What? Are you serious? This type of cash flow only comes with an active fighting. No civil profession gets that much of an income" Kornelius
"Well, I would say it will speed up further when we are all set up. Anyway let's proceed with that system core" Akira
"A moment please. Set it up in your free class slot then get close to your mother. It should cost about 400 mana for the core's transfer, so you have to stay together until it finishes.
"How I will do it exactly?" Akira
"Just will the thing happen and the system will handle the rest.
"The you have to stay nearby for several hours until I do my work for copying the little modules to your mother. The process is mana dependent and with your current mana regeneration will take 6-7 hours. That will save us about 15 000 SU!" Kornelius sounded happy
"Tomorrow we can think of empowering the "Hero frame grid", using your soul essence in a direct transfer. This is a very important module and the mana transfer will not work. That module handles many functions including the level up system. "The hero frame grid" module costs 20 000 SU if purchased from the [unified system] !" Kornelius
"Did you buy all those things to build my prototype?" Akira
"Well yes, I had no other option" Kornelius
"Wow you must be rich or something" Akira
"Not at all. All those money I have used, I borrowed..."
"So how much do you need to pay back?"
"....."Kornelius
"Kornelius??" Akira
"Its 156 000 SU" Kornelius
"Wow that much?" Akira
"Look if all goes well, I will try help you with that debt" Akira
"Thank you Akira, but you don't have to" Kornelius
"What are the friends for, buddy I help you and you help me!" Akira
"But first I have a mission to save my family. The clock for Caroline and Cristina is ticking" Akira
[Kornelius has gifted you "basic system core" Ver. 342A1. Do you accept? y/n]
[-5000 SU; Balance 400 SU]
"Yes"
[You have no access to a Nexus. Would you like to store the core in your class slot until then? y/n]
Yes
["basic system core" Ver. 342A1 stored successfully]
"OK now I will call okasa and once we go to sleep I will transfer the core. Then what?"
"Then I will have a busy night copying the minor modules to Hina" Kornelius
Once the both women went to the bed Akira said:
"Are you ready okasa?"
"I am, Finally I will have the strength to help my little bunny to grow up into a big dragon as Hoshi" Hina
"It actually sounds cool!" Akira willed the system to act
[Are you sure you want to transfer the "basic system core" Ver. 342A1 to unknown individual? y/n]
"Yes"
[Transfer initiated estimated time to complete 30 minutes. No Nexus detected in nearby sector. Use host mana reserves to complete the procedure? y/n]
"Yes" Akira
The entire process was painless.
---King Arthur Leonheart POV---
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King Arthur signed the report and massaged his temple. The king was a massive 2.3 meters tall beastkin, looking past his prime, and was of the catkin subspecies. The preparations for the assault at Demon Lord Voldemort's core world were at full throttle. The High command has decided to strike in many points of the vast front lines in about 3 years. It was their objective to hit Voldemort as hard as they can. He had a lot of debts to settle with that monster after all. His gaze moved across the pictures on the desk. The pictures of his 3 already deceased sons and their families. All of them died some miserable deaths on the battlefields. His third and youngest one prince Thristan died along with his 2 wives, about 20 years ago in the "defense of Terra" war campaign. They left a baby daughter Mira, the sole successor to the throne, to join the ever growing army of the war orphans.
Their world Sopura was next in line of the demonic invasion in their sector, since the fall of Terra.
He looked at the picture of Mira, she looked so vigorous and determined. It will be her duty to defend their world, when the hordes of Voldemort reach them in 2-3 centuries.
knock.... knock...
"Enter" Arthur
"Your Majesty, the war council is waiting for you..." A servant in a military attire reported.
The king adjusted his already grey hair and left for the council's meeting hall.
"All Raise, now entering His Majesty King Leonheart, king of the Sopura kingdom" his adjutant announced
The war council consisting about 20 people of different races stood up and saluted their leader.
"You may sit, let's begin with today's meeting" Arthur
Many reports of various type followed..
Kingdom of Sopura was preparing for all out war, mobilizing every single resource and person capable of fighting.
The minister of recruitment raised and proudly reported:
"I have managed to recruit the "Star 5 " hero party to join our ranks.
A wave of clapping and cheering erupted.
"It is hardly enough, but it will boost the troops morale" Arthur thought while applauding. The "5 star" hero party will help a lot, but strong they are indeed in the astronomical scales of the war ... Arthur was a very experienced general. He knew that this war is won by numbers and resources. Both of which the demons had a serious advantage.
"The main problem will be breaching Terra's barrier and capturing gate to the Voldemort's core world Vesuvius. Their barrier was recently upgraded to the demon's latest model. A state of the art defensive structure. Breaching this barrier will cause huge losses of manpower.." One of the officers reported
"Nothing new about this subject then" Arthur
"Your majesty if I may have a word?" The intelligence officer Ms Claudia Foxx asked..
"Yes you have anything to add??" Arthur
"Well, it is already known fact, that the divination spells had confirmed our chances for a total success in winning the war against Voldemort at 30,12 % ". Foxx said
"Has those chances sitting like that for the last 5 years??" another one asked
"Indeed they were since 7 days ago" Foxx said
Murmur and gossips filled the chamber
"Silence. Proceed with the report Lieutenant Foxx" Arthur intervened
"Last Saturday the divination spell reported an "unknown variable"
"On the next day the probability chance raised from 30,12 to 30,14%"
"During the last week the probability chance continued its rising trend reaching 31.2% yesterday"
"This morning the spell reported "two unknown variables" and the chance made a leap up to 36%!!!"
This time the chamber erupted in loud chattering.
"Impossible"
"What? Is this a mistake?"
"....unknown variable..."
"Has the divination spell results been confirmed?" Arthur raised from his seat put his palms on the table and asked loud obviously disturbed like the others of the council.
"They are accurate your Majesty, I have personally analysed the results, there is no mistake" Foxx
"We need to find what this unknown variable means. TOP priority for the intelligence department." Arthur said looking at Lieutenant Fox along with the others of the war council.
Foxx started to sweat from the pressure.
"The only lead we have is the spell report of a faint link pointing Paradise Prime" Foxx
"Paradise prime? That is a long way from our sector." Arthur
"I am sorry, but we have no other leads, your Majesty" Foxx
"Lieutenant Foxx, Your mission is to go and investigate personally the lead in the Paradise Prime. Take as many personal you need. I want results ASAP! Spare no efforts, unlimited funds will be granted by the kingdom. Report any progress directly to me! Good luck Lieutenant!"
"Council dismissed till next week"