Chapter 1048: The One Who Protects Everything.
Chapter 1048: The One Who Protects Everything.
After the conversation between Mizuki and Victor, small things changed. Mizuki was seen smiling more often, as the sense of burden she carried had completely disappeared, and she became more approachable.
This was a barely noticeable change that only Victor's Wives perceived, as she didn't change her attitude towards her own Daughters.
As Mizuki mentioned, it was an issue she had already resolved, and she was no longer a child. However, it was good to let these feelings out. Overcoming the feeling and exposing it to someone trustworthy was completely different.
Even Dragons needed to 'vent' sometimes... In fact, Blood Dragons, which were a mix of Dragon and Vampire, especially needed to vent. They were a very temperamental Race that could become unpleasant if they didn't have at least minimal control over their emotions.
Another change was that Ariel was frequently seen in Victor's personal mansion, along with Kali, Albedo, and Dun Scaith. She was also under a contract to not speak about anything she learned there.
Even though she was technically Victor's 'fiancée,' she was still not fully trusted, and Victor had many secrets that couldn't be casually shared.
The presence of the Angel caused controversy among the Daughters, specifically the Daughters of the Demonic Mothers or, to be even more specific, Lilith's Daughter.
Unlike her other Sisters, who had been born of previously Demonic Mothers, Victor and Lilith's Daughter was a Dragon, a Goddess, and, at the same time, a Demon. She naturally had the ability to control and create Hellish Miasma to extremely toxic degrees, so toxic that even High-Level Demons couldn't withstand it.
It could be said that her nature was the complete opposite of Ariel's.
Ariel was Light and Positivity, and her very presence was like a beacon of dawn.
On the other hand, she was Darkness and Miasma, and her presence caused discomfort to everyone who was not her Family.
Ariel noticed Lilith's Daughter's displeasure, but she did nothing to resolve it since the problem had no solution for now. After all, it was something instinctive, something from their inherently contradictory natures.
Due to their opposite natures, they were like water and oil; they didn't mix... For now, of course. After all, it was all a matter of getting used to each other because Lilith's Daughter got along very well with Amaterasu's and Gaia's Daughters, who were Goddesses related to Light and Life.
Of course, the fact that they grew up together helped with that, but it also couldn't be denied that the excuse of their natures being opposite and therefore they shouldn't interact was quite weak.
Ariel fully understood this, so she decided to wait and be as accessible as possible. If she could, she wanted to get along with everyone, but she understood that this couldn't happen immediately.
Thoughts of harming her? That thought never crossed Ariel's mind since she wasn't crazy. They were Victor's Daughters, after all.
Even within the mansion, Ariel could feel various Beings watching her when she interacted with Victor's Daughters. These gazes practically tripled when she interacted with the younger Daughters.
May her Father have mercy on the Beings who try to harm his Daughters because Victor himself would not.
One thing Ariel would never admit to anyone, not even under threat, was that the way he protected the children was extremely pleasant. In this aspect, she saw Victor as even superior to her own Father.
Even though the Heavenly Father created the Angels and was their Father, all the Angels knew that the Heavenly Father loved Humans more.
Everyone knew this, considering that it was also one of the reasons for Lucifer's rebellion. The most beautiful Angel didn't feel loved enough after the Creation of Humans.
'… A child's quarrel indeed.' Ariel came to reflect on the Genesis War and realized that it was all just a big family squabble.
Speaking of younger Daughters, it was difficult to tell by appearance who was young or not since they were Dragons. They could very well all be young, considering how long it took for a Dragon to mature.
But Ariel knew she shouldn't rely on what she knew about Dragons here. After all, they were a new species of Dragon about which she knew nothing.
With this in mind, she decided to treat them all equally, no matter what their external appearance was... which wasn't too difficult, considering she was the Angel of Generosity, one of The Seven most beloved Virtues of Heaven.
Ariel had no idea how much this decision helped her. After all, despite being Dragons, Goddesses, Demons, and Werewolves, they were still living Beings. Their Race didn't matter, at least not here.
Here, they were all Victor's Daughters, Daughters of their own Mothers, and most importantly, they were all Family.
Unaware of how her actions reflected on her, Ariel couldn't help but think in the privacy of her mind, 'All of them are absolute monsters. What the heck?'
Yes, the Angel of Heaven was swearing a freedom she would definitely miss when she returned. She had no idea how liberating it was to express her thoughts like this.
Especially when she saw so many abnormalities in such a short time... Children creating prototypes of Life without Souls, children manipulating Elements to absurd degrees, children molding the Earth and Nature. Children BENDING Reality just by breathing!
'This man's Daughters were definitely born with a damn diamond spoon... Even diamond is an understatement; they were born with a spoon of pure Godly metal in their mouths!' It wasn't just in genetic terms that they were granted absurd Powers and success.
Resources, education, a happy Family, Power in various forms, both political Power as the Emperor's Daughters and personal Power due to being born strong—they had it all.
'... And yet, they managed to remain humble.' With so many things they had from birth, Ariel was expecting to see some arrogant and spoiled little girls in a bad way, but she found none of that here.
Ariel's thoughts unconsciously caused chills among the girls around her.
"... Did you feel that?" asked a little red-haired girl to another little red-haired girl.
"Yeah..." Lacus' Daughter replied.
"Do you think Mother Scathach is preparing another training session for us?" Siena's Daughter asked.
"I don't know... But I don't want to be here to find out."
They looked at each other and nodded.
"Escape." They said simultaneously, as wings sprouted from their backs, and they quickly flew away.
"W-Wait, I'm coming too!" Pepper's Daughter, who was reading a manga at a distance, saw her sisters flying, quickly spread her wings, and followed them.
Ariel watched this scene with confused and curious eyes. She wondered what made these girls flee so suddenly, as she was sure she hadn't done anything wrong.
Although these girls were Victor's Daughters and were born with the best of everything, they were also Daughters of the other Mothers, and it was practically a common agreement among all the Mothers that they shouldn't spoil their Daughters.
...Their Father spoiled them too much, so they needed to be the voice of reason to ensure no spoiled brats grew among their children.
This was something Ariel didn't know yet, and she would only discover it after observing how the Mothers treated the younger children, as they were the most volatile.
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While Ariel explored the mansion, Victor, Velnorah, Ruby, and Aline were gathered in the personal laboratory of the three women mentioned on Victor's planet.
The type of research here was something that could not be done in Elvenorah. For safety reasons, conducting these projects on Victor's personal planet is safer.
"Here is the project, Darling." Velnorah, who had reduced her height to two meters for practicality, spoke. While working on things that require very detailed precision, she reduced her height...
A fact she particularly didn't like, as she was proud of her height, the height of her former Race. However, choices had to be made for extremely detailed work that needed her full attention. Sometimes, she needed to shrink even more to work internally on circuits. Despite loving her height and not wanting to change it, she loved her projects more, so sacrifices were made.
Victor took the floating screen in the air, a piece of technology that came from Velnorah's ancient Empire. These past two thousand years had not been in vain. On Victor's personal planet, practically all essential things were on the same level as the technology on Velnorah's planet.
In fact... It could be said that the technological level was even higher than before. After all, she was a Dragon Goddess, and her Technomancy had reached ridiculous levels. Combining her Divinity with the innate Dragon Ability to bend Reality at various levels depending on the user's proficiency allowed her to do even more things she couldn't before, and this was without considering Magic, the God of Blacksmiths, and Draconic Runes.
With these tools in hand, the limit of what she could develop was based only on her imagination, an area that never lacked ideas due to Ruby being a huge fan of various sources of entertainment.
After finishing reading all the content, Victor spoke. "I understand..." He then closed his eyes to reflect, a small habit he had acquired over time. After all, an Emperor needed to think about the various ramifications of his decisions.
"An A.I. is essential for the future. With the prediction of how large the Empire will grow, it is virtually impossible to keep an eye on everything," Ruby said.
They could do this using their Divine Senses, but it was extremely tedious, and many of them had other things to focus on rather than spending 24 hours a day watching other Beings.
"It will reach all the territories we control in the future, be they small hidden Dimensions or even planets in different Sectors," Aline continued while, with a hand gesture, several screens appeared in front of her showing space, specifically a 'thin' barrier in space.
"With the decay of the barrier between Sectors and with the help of Azathoth's influence, we managed to spy on the other side, and as Velnorah's records pointed out..." Aline made another hand gesture, and a larger screen appeared, showing a gigantic planet.
The term 'mega planet' seemed inadequate. The planet was almost the same size as a star.
"Planets 59 times larger than Earth are quite 'common' there." Aline made another hand gesture, and other planets appeared. "The largest planet we managed to spy on was larger than the yellow sun of the Milky Way by a few kilometers."
"I didn't spend much time in the Higher Worlds," Velnorah began to speak. "So I couldn't get many records, but a common sense there is that all Emperors have a Super Planet as their home."
"Generally, these Super Planets are artificially created in conjunction with the World Tree and the Emperor/Leader of the Civilization."
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Edited By: DaV0 2138, IsUnavailable
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