Chapter 41: The treasure trove called Misla Bael.

Chapter 41: The treasure trove called Misla Bael.

Author Note:

Heavily AU.

I know that Misla was not born Bael. Well, I know that now. When I wrote the chapter, I had no idea so... :D.

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Tom spent so much time poking and prodding inside of Misla's body... and that came out exactly as he wanted it to... because he wasn't just trying to find out a way to awaken her.

Twenty seconds in the real world was for him, with the usage of his Sacred Gear, several hours. He actually spent eight magic gems around his neck and only because he took his time with channeling the mana instead of going as fast as possible could his body bear it.

He still suffered a massive physical strain but it was still within his limits.

Nevertheless, it was worth it. This was a golden opportunity for Tom. A living person usually had a lot of resistance to being extensively probed with his Sacred Gear. Loopholes existed, sure, but it was still a drag. But Misla was unconscious and that gave Tom the confidence to try being thorough with her.

And he discovered there was no resistance to his knowledge hunting throughout her body. How could he let an opportunity like this go?

To be honest, awakening her was a trivial matter and it took only a bit of Tom's time to find out what was wrong with her and how to correct it.

The reason for the Sleeping Sickness was that devils were artificially created lifeforms in the first place.

The first devil, Lucifer, was first an angel, and those were made by the Biblical God. He was not naturally born but artificially created. A massive difference.

From the devil history books, Tom briefly knew that Lucifer grew dissatisfied with all the restrictions put on him by the big G. Hence, Lucifer fell and became a Fallen Angel.

Not a devil straight away but a Fallen Angel.

But nobody knew what happened during his time as a Fallen Angel. All that was written in the history books is that Lucifer who was already a devil at that time met a demoness Lilith and used her to give birth to the devil race.

A lot of things were just glossed over in the history of devils and how they came to be.

But... to an attentive reader, the keywords said a bit more of the true story.

The history books had called Lilith a 'Demoness'. Not a Devil.

It might be surprising but Devils and Demons were not one and the same. And if Tom took into account what he so dearly wished to forget. Aka, that his world was also a variant of Marvel-verse...

He found out that these bloodline powers were acquired through various hefty deals made by the progenitors of their families with extradimensional beings. The same beings the Masters of the Mystic Arts were dealing with.

Well, more often than not, the beings these Masters actually tried to prevent getting into this dimension.

Of course, these beings thought they outsmarted this new race and would acquire powerful slaves once their powers corrupted them and get an easy passage into this plane of existence through them but something in the devils' make-up, namely, their connection to the Heaven System of the Biblical God, prevented the first devils from being screwed six ways till Sunday despite doing something as stupid as trying to sell their souls to the so-called Demon Lords for special powers.

Yes, Tom actually facepalmed when he learned about that.

As much of a bother the headache when mentioning God's name was for the devils, Tom thought the Devils should be damn happy for their distant relation to him and the fact they still were a part of his System.

Without that, there would be no devil race today to plague the world and make a mess of things.

It also explained why especially Zekram Bael held the Power of Destruction in such high regard. He was one of the fools who was almost enslaved because of it and he certainly knew it. His nature and the concept of exchange imbued in the devil race would make him painfully aware of what he just did the second he agreed to the deal offered to him even if the other party was a powerful Demon Lord.

At most, the Demon Lords could hide the real intention behind the deal up till the point the other party agreed. Not any further.

Well, Tom surmised not every bloodline was the same. Some, like the Phenex Family bloodline, could have been a deal with a much milder dimensional entity but Tom could only inspect the Power of Destruction right now so anything else was just speculation.

For all he knew, some bloodlines could be mutations or acquired by other means like special rituals or even scientifically...

Eh, it didn't matter. Tom decided to focus on what was in front of him. Namely, the Power of Destruction.

What did it matter how Phenexes acquired their bloodline? The information would not help Tom in any way right now.

The last thing Tom did was to make sure his ideas and plans could be done. He wanted to know if Misla could make a deal with him through her unconsciousness. It was a farfetched idea, Tom had to admit.

But...

Like a good magician, he wasn't above using underhanded means. Having the concept of Exchange imbued in their being was very convenient for devils and they could grow stronger by simply making deals.

But obviously, there were drawbacks to this too. Drawbacks Tom could use as a backdoor to get what he wanted from an unconscious devil.

Usually, a devil would instantly wake up if somebody tried to force a deal upon him but Misla was as out of it as it gets. She could not wake up even if somebody was trying to drill a hole into her with a jackhammer.

The best part? Misla would be none the wiser due to the disconnection of her soul and body.

A Cheshire grin appeared on Tom's lips in his mind as he realized he had just found his cheat code to increase his personal power. Stopping channeling his mana into his Sacred Gear, Tom pulled back into the real world.