Chapter 5: Progress

Serafall was moving up and down, sitting on Luke.
The paperwork in her hand was being looked over as she was being moved.
"Hey, Luke... Did you finish your paperwork?"
She asked her current chair who was doing pushups like no one elses business.
It had already been three hours since he started.
"Yeah."
He didn't even stop to answer, continuing his workout dutifully. In the mind of the foreign affairs leader, a plan was brewing. And it was time to strike.
"Hey, Luke, can you help me with my-"
"No."
She slumped on his back, her plan had failed, how did he do it anyway? And so easily? How could he defeat the bane of her existence?
"How did you do it?"
He turned his head towards her, with one eyebrow raised, but she wouldn't know, she could only see one eye.
"Do what?"
What did he mean, "what?", he beat the paperwork, she needed his secrets!
"The paperwork!"
She exclaimed incredulously, wanting a way to finish her work faster, then maybe she could spend more time with her precious little sister. Oh, how she misses her, and she is sure that the feeling is the same for the younger girl.
The stare-down lasted for exactly ten seconds before a magic circle appeared beneath Luke and just like that, he was gone, leaving The female Leviathan to fall to the floor with a yelp.
"Mou! That meanie!"
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It had been three more weeks since he changed his appearance and things were going very well.

(Master, do you have to save the world again?)
His armor asked curiously, in its current form of a ring on his finger, it had gold edges with a black center but otherwise, no one would differentiate it from a normal ring.
He had to point it out to Serafall that it was his nee "Sacred gear" and then it had to convince her that his change was because he "Didn't deem his figure appropriate for his true form", it was bullshit, of course, but she didn't need to know that yet, if at all.

(No, Greed, looks like there won't be a quest this time. How is your other half by the way?)
Greed was his soul-bound equipment, both of them, armor that could absorb the properties, abilities, and enchantments of other armor and transform them into energy to reinforce itself, becoming even harder to Pearce than it already was, or transfer it to Mana that it stored withing itself to fuel him... Just in case he needed it... He never needed it.
And then his spear, that absorbed the Mana of everyone and everything it killed making itself sharper as a result.

(I've absorbed half of the six god's mana, still working on the other three but my sharpness should increase exponentially as a result.)
That was good, but it was only a matter of time until he was at his peak again, and then, he might as well hang around, he missed the internet too much to just leave the first chance he got, and imagine what would happen, humans would be able to develop more technologically, more entertainment for him, the memes! The games!

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He wasn't leaving this world anytime soon if he had a say, there was no telling when he would end up in this era again.

(Focus all your attention on absorbing, I shall call you if I find an interesting ability for you to absorb.)
Obeying his order, Greed's consciousness disappeared from the ring, and he could feel it entering the spear.
Humming slightly, he walked down the empty halls, having nothing to do, his body still needed to digest the food he ate so he needed to be patient.
His physique should be back to what it was in about a few months since he was a Demon now.
Magic was a different thing altogether, devil magic had nothing to offer him, he would need to visit other pantheons, and maybe some would be willing to trade knowledge... If he remembered correctly, he could go to a woman named Scáthach for runes and he would have to look at human magic circles before he actually accompanied Serafall to some foreign affairs.
But now... He was heading to meet serafall, well, meeting was a wrong word, more like he was going to see her. Ever since she came back from a certain meeting she locked herself inside her room and was refusing to talk to anyone.
Seriously, her antics were sometimes... Always so childish.
Sighing, he walked a little faster, he could teleport, but he needed a few minutes to mentally prepare.
A few minutes later, he reached frozen double doors, indicating that he was, indeed, at the right room.
In front of the door stood a few worried maids, at the sight of him, they backed off from the door and stood to the side, looking cautiously between him and the frozen doors.
Nodding to them absently, he raised a hand and knocked on the ice...
"Go away!"
... Well, that didn't work.
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Serafall leviathan was not happy.
How could they do that? He was newly reincarnated, how does she tell him the news? It was basically a death sentence.
He was coming along well too, his magic was coming along well and he was training to make up for his recent changes but the time given to him would not be enough for him to get strong enough!
They put him, and in extension, her, between a rock and a hard place.
Hmph! His training would have to be harsher then! She would not lose her cute queen! So what if he didn't tell her the secret to defeating paperwork? She didn't want to lose him.
During her pouting, someone knocked on ice...
Seriously, who knocked on ice?
"Go away!"
She didn't want to talk to anyone right now, she needed to get her anger out before she froze the whole mansion.
An explosion rang out from the door and she looked over with raised eyebrows, no one would dare to do that to enter a Leviathan's room...
Luke walked in...
She deadpanned.
Well, no one except Luke, apparently, but that was something she likes about her Queen, he didn't give a fuck about status.
"...I brought chocolate cake!... With strawberries!"
Her face lit up as she pounced on the chocolate cake, who would pass up cake?

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