This day will go down in history for all the wrong reasons.
After almost a thousand years upon this earth my father joined my mother in death.
With his death humanity lost its greatest protector.
And if this wasn't bad enough angels started falling from heaven in droves.
I could see it all happening, hundreds of thousands of fallen angels being banished from Heaven straight to Hell.
And so the third Ibrahamic faction was born.
Though maybe I should call them the fourth Ibrahamic faction since I technically remain a part of Yahweh's greater faction.
This is clearly the start of the great war even if no one but Yahweh and myself know it.
About the big guy upstairs, we met after my mother's funeral and damn he was terrifying, in my eyes he was akin to a living universe looking down on me.
We only spoke briefly and I felt like he knew more about me than I knew about myself, frankly I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
Back to the fallen, I immediately started scanning them now that they are no longer directly protected by the big guy. What I found terrified me to the core.
Fallen are condensed Light spirits given corporeal form along with a nascent ego. That is to say that they don't exactly have souls but that they can form one if given enough time and stimulus.
I did figure out how to create angels of my own not that I would since they would still be linked to Yahweh thus making me second to him in the eyes of any angel I create.
But none of this is exactly scary per say, what absolutely terrifies me is that angels are gods without divinity. Somehow God managed to create independent gods. That is to say gods that are not bound to this world, freeing them from the major drawbacks of being a deity.
Divinity in this particular universe also serves as a chain, binding all who attain it to this specific piece of creation.
It allows gods to connect to domains and grow immeasurably stronger at the cost of serving as a permanent anchor for a given aspect of the world to be reinforced into reality.
For example a god of fire will serve to reaffirm what fire is, how it should act and how it can and cannot be used.
Problems occur when multiple gods share the same domain, the more gods of a specific domain, the less authority over that power can be shared between them.
There exist those who are more intune with a given domain hence their ability to usurp some of the authority and power other gods who share in that domain would have. This creates different gods of fire with vastly different capabilities. One could barely have enough power to incinerate a forest whilst the other could be strong enough to erase a continent with ease.
This will be a major contributor to the coming Great War, with gods fighting one another to consolidate their hold on their given domain.
And then you have fucking Primordials, otherwise known as true gods.
Those things are living concepts, the closest thing I could compare them to are the Cosmic Entities from Marvel. They do not embody a concept, they are the concept.
I don't even want to think about how powerful those things are, let alone how to best one of them.
Not that it would matter since you can't kill a Primordial and if somehow you managed to do so then you would have doomed this world.
Truly the more I learn, the more I see how this world completely eclipses the power levels I believed existed.
I once tried to look for one of my descendants through my sight to invite him to join my faction, to save time I decided to use my sight and did the equivalent of zooming out of Earth only to find that the planet wasn't just some rock floating in space, no it was Gaia, the Fucking Primordial Godess.
Well… now I know why everyone seems to be so focused on Earth.
It's like Gaia exists to be everybody's playing ground, for good reason. Gaia can mitigate the damage the supernatural creates with their tantrums.
You think an Ultimate Class being is strong because they can destroy a mountain? Well the truth is that if they were to do the same on any other planet then they would have been capable of destroying a decent mountain range.
What about God/Satan/Leader Class beings? We know they can affect entire continents, but in truth they would have destroyed the planet if it wasn't for Gaia.
Fact is Gaia is keeping things together while ants think of themselves as being something special.
Sometimes I think of Earth like the Kindergarten for powerful beings with Gaia as the silently suffering teacher, always doing her best to keep things from spiraling out of control.
I can't get the image of Gaia with dark circles under her eyes, letting out a long suffering sigh.
damn that's funny.
Fact is this version of Dxd is overpowered compared to anything I read about in my old life. And to think that the Dragon gods will somehow surpass even the primordials… That's terrifying.
Back to the matter at hand, the analysis of the fallen has given me hope of someday transforming myself into a being of great power without the shackles that come with divinity.
This is very important to me since I feel like I've stagnated for too long, and my greatest advantage, the ability to copy powers from beyond creation, is made void due to my physical limitations.
After all, you don't see beings with dozens of powers.
That's because you need to be able to assimilate the powers into either your body, your mind and/or your soul. The soul is infinite so any power that is compatible with my soul can be assimilated with little to no problem, however the mind is limited by the body thus making any improvement an arduous process. Finally the body is more than simple flesh and blood, it is the physical representation of who you are. A weak body would collapse under a powerful soul, a body that is incompatible with either the spirit or the soul can lead to disastrous consequences and these are only the most basic of complications related to one's physical form.
One's physical vessel is often the ultimate limiter for beings of great power.
However now that I have a working example of a body that touches upon the divine in the form of angels along with my knowledge of what is possible I decided to start upon evolving into a being of greater power.
Now that I think about it, what I am trying to do is similar to the evolutionary process from "Tensura", only I don't have access to the Voice of the World to help me.
Tensura is an overpowered multiverse so perhaps I should follow in the footsteps of Veldanava's creations.
So the question becomes how do I turn into an Enlightened or more specifically how do I turn myself into a Demi-spiritual life-form?
Is there even such a thing in Dxd? Is it possible to transcend my physical form?
The answer to the first question is yes, well sort of… Angels and devils have their souls fused into their body hence why there is no afterlife for them, if their physical vessel dies then their souls dies along with it.
But this still makes them Demi-spiritual life-forms, only they took a different evolutionary path. One I deem inferior.
In other words this is not the way to go, fusing the soul with the body is indeed a possible path for me to evolve but I know that it isn't for me.
Instead of fusing into my body I should probably separate myself from it entirely. This will no doubt be insanely dangerous since even if I manage to separate my spirit from my body the heavenly system will no doubt try to recall my soul and that would mean that I have completely failed.
So what I need is to be able to function outside my vessel, but isn't that exactly what a Demi-spiritual life-form is?
Being unbound to flesh and not requiring a material body to function naturally means that demi-spiritual life-forms have their memory storage and thoughts located within their spiritual body or even deeper within, likely within the soul itself.
Damn, the more I think about it the more this sounds like something cultivators would go through. And to think that Veldanava created a process that makes this instantaneous.
Since I don't have access to the Voice of the world I should start by fusing my mind and soul creating a fully realized spiritual essence.
No one said that walking the path of self evolution was easy and indeed it wasn't. It took me close to a decade to refine the process, only then did I go through the process which lasted for days with plenty of close calls, but in the end I succeeded.
Not only that, I managed to create a true understanding of myself and of my soul. In other words I analyzed my soul in the same way the Voice of the World would when granting skills only in my case I can use this knowledge to know what powers are most compatible with me.
Knowledge, Wisdom, Analysis, Rulership, Domination, Creation, Evolution, Replication, Power, Energy, Infinity, Space, Freedom, Imagination, Life, Soul, Reproduction.
Those are the major components that make me who I am.
You can summarize my existence into those few words.
There are other concepts but they are nowhere near as relevant to my being as those previously stated.
Hence any future power I assimilate into myself should preferably fit into those categories.
Following my evolution I intended to once more inhabit my old body but then I thought better of it. I will admit that I did not make the best decisions when assimilating powers, but now that I have the chance I intend to pick and choose all that I want in a body whilst including all the powers linked to the body that are compatible with my spirit.
As soon as I synchronized with my brand new body I felt like a burden was removed from my shoulders.
All the powers that were incompatible with me and yet were still forced into me were a burden I never knew I carried.
Even better, due to my evolution I did not regress in power but instead jumped straight into the higher end of the God Class.
Right now I consider myself a real player in the world.
Honestly I both envy and pity those with a system. Envy because they can collect powers without constraint since the system is the one who truly holds those powers and merely allows the user access to them. This also allows for powers incompatible between universes to continue working since the system acts as a copy of the home world to any ability. I also pity system users since the powers they hold are never truly theirs and even if they indeed are given some powers then more likely then not those powers become as much of a burden as the incompatible powers I held were to me.
No matter, I am too proud to rely on any power I do not own myself.
You could present me with the Infinity Gauntlet in exchange for my current powers and I would refuse without hesitation.
To rely on an outside source of power is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Following my evolution I decided to take things easy for a while, hence why I am currently sunbathing with my pet Lion.
Because yes I do retain the metaphysical affinities I gained only they remain lesser aspects to myself.
Next to me is my Eldest daughter Sara in her maid costume. She is basically Grayfia before Grayfia was even a thing, that is to say that she has a maid fetish the size of mount Olympus.
Not that I mind, hell I love it, she has served me for centuries and hopefully she will continue to do so for a very long time.
Sara is one of my favorite children, she is one of the few who managed to reach the Ultimate Class, she is a prodigy at magic, and she also inherited my ability to shapeshift, but what makes me favor her above the majority of my children is her desire if not a compulsive need for a master to serve.
On her twentieth birthday, the day I consider my children adults, she made a dogeza in front of everyone and full on begged me to take her as a servant.
Yeh I introduced Japanese brain rot before it was even a thing.
I of course indulge her believing it to be just a phase but no. Half a millennia later and here she is, standing upright, carrying a tray filled with refreshments with little lion cubs nibbling at her toes.
I can't wait to see everyone's reaction when she and Grayfia meet.
But until then… I spread my legs and my cute maid gets into position to better serve her mistress.
"Ahh… this is the life."
Author's Note:
Finally, this chapter was a disaster and it took me days to salvage it. Sorry for the long wait but better delay the chapter than publish a subpar chapter.
I intend to add onto the MC's characteristics but latter because right now I am just tiered