"Come on Shirley, you know this is bullshit!"
"I'm sorry Roy but you need to see it from the viewpoint of the higher ups. You are literally the first agent we had who started in DxD and left it without capturing a single girl! You're lucky there were some people who managed to convince them not to send you to a higher ranked world and give you the mission there." My company manager said with a sigh and I could practically hear her massaging her temples.
"Look, this isn't all bad. You are competent enough to deal with this and it will add some pizzaz to your adventure. Something to show the higher ups that you are ready for action and won't just run away at the first sign of danger. Not to mention the expy waifus, everyone loves those! So quit whining about it and do your damn job!" And then she ended her communication.
"'Running at first sign of danger'? I'm a fucking versatality focused sixth tier mage who had just mouthed off to a destruction focused eighth tier demon!" I groaned as I thought about throwing the smart device in anger before trying to calm myself down.
It wasn't very successful.
This threw off all of my plans. I had intended to simply go after few of the locals in order to put the wealthy under my control and do a standard mission, maybe use my powers to absorb one or two impressive beasts, and then leave this universe for one where I could raise my combat ability and get me some strong subordinates. Rinse and repeat.
But this... this kind of mission would take at least a year to complete, giving me far less time for other worlds before needing to at least make a pitstop back in DxD. Great.
"The Company really does fuck everyone." I said with a sigh and then slapped my cheeks. "Whelp, time to stop bitching and get moving."
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"You wish to open a vault?"
"Indeed." I said with a smile to the goblin and raised my handbag. "I'm told that you guys can exchange muggle money for galleons."
"For a small fee of zero point eight percent of the amount, yes." Goblin nodded as he accepted the handbag and took a peek inside to see the fat stack of green bills. "Are there any other services you would like to use?"
"That depends, how good are you guys when it comes to real estate in muggle side?" I asked and could see that the goblin was thinking about whether he could get away with throwing an axe to my head before snorting.
"Is there a specific place that you are interested in, or would any place do."
"There is." I said with a smile and told him, mostly because there actually was but also because a part of me was telling me that this guy would definitely get me the worst possible piece of land possible if given the chance.
As I prepared to get off and go to my business, an idea formed in my head. Not a good one, but not a bad one either. Merely an... unusual one.
'Eh, what the hell.' "By the way, here." I said as I placed a ring on the desk, to which the goblin merely raised an eyebrow. "Consider it a token of gratitude or some similar shit." I said with a smile and got up before the diminutive bastard could say anything.
I didn't know if the greedy bugger would actually put on the Tempest Jewelry on but even if he didn't, the thing had Jewels of Discord perk. Someone would end up putting it on sooner or later, and it would be an interesting experiment if nothing else.
After leaving Gringotts, I decided to tackle one of my other problems before heading to my new house.
Despite the fact that I had all the powers of the Caster Servant known as Paracelsus von Hohenheim and more, I was lacking in one important area in this world.
Wand Magic.
Not only I didn't have a wand, I also didn't have the magic of the wizards in this world. I had magecraft of Nasuverse, formulaic magic of DxD and the eldritch magic of Marvel; but not that one. Meaning I couldn't just go to a wand shop and get myself chosen by a wand. And going around doing magic without a wand in this world? It would get far too many eyes focused on me far too soon.
That's bad business. Worse yet, simply buying Potential would not help my goals and I didn't have enough credits to buy a Template of it either.
How fortunate that there was a simple solution to that in this world, with only minimal chances of fatality for me.
So I simply stepped into one of the empty alleyways and made a circle with my hand while concentrating on the coordinates of where I wanted to go, creating a portal surrounded by orange sparks. When I stepped through it, I was in front of a little shack in Little Hangleton.
"This place sucks." I said as I stepped through the door and held a hand out to intercept an oncoming curse of sickly yellow color.
The next few minutes was spent with me stepping throughout the shack and nonchalantly dealing with the traps, all of which were magical in nature. How sad that the magic of this world did basically nothing to hide itself from my senses, the chances of these curse traps Voldemort had set up were about same as a child's wiretap. It was about as obvious too.
Was this how Emiya Kiritsugu felt when it came to magic users and their arrogance?
After a while, I managed to finally locate the ring and damn if the curse on it was not something potent.
If one were to grade curses based on a scale of negative feelings, then the curses I had dealt with till now were basically the kind of feeling you would get at missing a shot on a dartboard to this curses feeling of a Redditor in his mother's basement's life.
It was nasty.
Yet it didn't really matter. The curse required one to touch the ring to activate and I had no need to do such a thing. After all, the Strange Supreme template had one important ability.
"Thanks for the meal." I said with a smirk as I opened my mouth and felt magic make it glow along with my eyes as a green light appeared on the ring and slowly entered my mouth, followed by knowledge of magic that I had not studied before.
After all the light was taken from the ring, it turned to ashes; leaving behind only a single piece of black stone.
"Lumos." I said and a small ball of light appeared on the tip of my finger, making me smile. "Wand magic, acquired." Now, it was time for phase two.
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Harriet Lily Potter was not having a good summer. Mostly due to the fact that her school year had ended with her friend, and possible crush, getting murdered in front of her eyes before the murderer of her parents was brought back to life by a ritual that used her blood.
Followed by Dumbledore once more sending her back to Dursleys with the sorry excuse of her mother's wards. Which was exactly what she needed after a traumatic experience, staying with her emotionally abusive relatives.
There had been times where she thought about just deciding that Hogwarts was not worth it and getting herself expelled by cursing them but the thought of the serial killer wizard on the loose made her reconsider it, even if the thought was getting more and more seductive ever since her aunt decided to starve the whole house in order to 'support' Dudley in his diet.
The closest thing to something to distract her from them was the delivery truck delivering furniture for their new neighbor, who was likely going to be some old grandma that aunt Petunia would spend hours gossiping with about whatever old women who wasted their lives gossiped about.
Before she could think something worse about Petunia, a guy walked out of the truck. A rather good looking guy with long black hair tied in a low ponytail and glasses. Also some slight stubble on his face that gave him a distinguished look.
"Hello neighbor!"
...so their neighbor was not a grandma.
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