Chapter 24 - Cheated by old man

After finishing the meeting, I immaterially called all of my five Generals and gave them my orders. The first one was to double the numbers of my army, so each legion would be consisting of 200,000 soldiers. Meaning altogether 5,2 million.

It wasn't big enough to compare to some more militaristic Houses, but it was a nice number. During the Great War, a number of devils that fought there numbered in billions, or rather casualties were in billions.

Second thing, I informed them about my plan for small planar conquest and ordered for an army to increase the training regime by x10. I also invested a lot of Soul Coins to buy precious potions and pills for soldiers.

The third thing was about increasing the combat process of the Generals. The first thing I thought about was buying some high-grade magical equipment from other Pantheons, so I gave that responsibility to General Borke.

I have also been thinking about the usage of Sacred Gears, but that possibility was not very realistic for several reasons. The first one was that currently Heaven was at its strongest and controlled tightly all Sacred Gears, all users were pawns and soldiers of Heaven. On top of that, Sacred Gears were tied to God's System in Heaven, and it can know its current holder.

Obtaining Sacred Gears when Big G is still alive, is just pure actions of courting death. Also, I personally disdained depending on the equipment to increase my power. Sacred Gear while it is basically Soul Weapon, still can be rendered useless. I also had the theory, that Big G, could directly control all of them, as he was their creator through God's System.

Rizevim had an ability called Sacred Gear Canceler, which worked on a relatively easy principle. It could nullify Sacred Gears of people who were weaker than the user, on the same level as the user... basically, it depended on the amount of energy used. I remembered that in canon it couldn't nullify Diabolos Dragon mode of that perverted trash, as it was created with the power of Ophis, who was basically a being of law, far above Rizevim's level. So, if he had such ability, it was respectable, that similar abilities, skills, spells, and methods existed in the infinite Astral Boundary.

Still, while I don't plan to use Sacred Gears in foreseeable future, at least not until, I found a way to completely sever them from God's System, I won't be using one. It is too dangerous, to leave something that is connected to Heaven to be bounded with your soul.

Even though, I can later get some of them for my subordinates as they are pretty useful weapons. After Big G is dead, Heaven won't have enough power to protect even the Church, not Sacred Gears, which were in comparison not that important with the source of their religion on Earth. So I can get a few of them.

Getting them was though problematic. God's System decided when the Sacred Gear would be bound to someone. Meaning, host of one Sacred Gear could appear only once for several centuries if unlucky. Searching for such a person, was also pretty hard. Heaven had it easy, they could just look into the System and know who is the host. Everyone else had it hard, as they needed to search for them.

I have even decided on which of them to obtain. The first one was Telos Karma. While I didn't plan on using it, this one was unique, as from what I heard about it, Telos Karma was built with the usage of infus.e.m.e.nt of Laws of Fate, thus capable of changing the probability of things. I don't want to use it for a simple reason, I will rather study the Laws of Fate itself.

If possible I also aimed to obtain Sephiroth Graal due to its usefulness in genetical manipulation and its ability to the usage of Laws of Creation, Life, and Soul. Other useful Sacred Gears were Annihilation Maker or Dimensional Lost. For me personally Incinerate Anthem for its ability to use the highest-grade Holy Flame.

After the War, I can start my research upon Sacred Gears... maybe even compare notes with Azazel. I heard that even now that man was spending most of his time in research. Then I started to wonder if Grigori could be recruited for my plan... probably not after the war... but later who knows.

Once Underworld is mainly under the control of the Devils, Fallen would be needed to be dealt off. Either by Grigori joining, expelling them, or annihilation.

I sat in my study, as I was looking at the ceiling of the room and thinking about various things. There are currently many things to do, soon the war would start and I needed to be prepared as much as possible, to obtain the biggest gains.

Additionally, I also needed to go visit Asgard and Takagamara to make a deal with the two Pantheons. Zekram would go to Olympus and Vampires.

When I looked for information about the Asgard situation there wasn't ideal. Apparently, Odin has got into conflict with his eldest daughter Hela, and their relationship was almost at the point of the war. From what I heard, God King of Aesir has decided to be a peace-loving fool for a foreseeable period. That wasn't something I wanted to hear. Now I can see, why Zekram left it to me, I was cheated by that old man.

Hela was molded by Odin to be his weapon of conquest, and now that man has decided to end wars in his sphere of influence, she was practically made redundant for him.

God Queen Frigga, Prince Baldur, and Prince Thor have decided to remain neutral. Prince Loki is leaning towards Hela's camp. So... who should I got, that only leaves me one option.

She was pretty strong, pinnacle Intermediate Divinity Stage, same Class as old Zekram. She would also soon enough reach even Greater Divinity Stage. Maybe Odin also feels threatened, if she is like I read about her, it wouldn't be weird for her to try to challenge him for the throne.