The giant cast-iron door that seemed to weigh hundreds of tons was lifted easily and moved aside by an Itachi who didn't even sweat or make a sound of effort.
"Special demon," Asia murmured. She had heard that term many times over the past few days, especially when Lucifer came to visit Itachi.
"Let's go in," Itachi said. He took several steps forward, and Asia walked behind him. Inside, a large facility was revealed.
There were hallways along the edges, and the place was like a gigantic stadium with a roof. Houses and all kinds of buildings were attached to the walls, while in the center there were numerous strange machines. There was some kind of liquid inside those machines, and some people without clothes were still connected to tubes and living inside the liquid in those machines.
"This…" Itachi murmured, narrowing his eyes. He quickly scanned the place with his Sharingan and found something peculiar: in one of the machines, a person was about to open their eyes.
"What the hell is this?" Asia curse, a habit she had learned not long ago. She took a step back, her body started trembling, her eyes dilated, and she almost fell backward when she saw all the people connected to tubes inside those strange machines.
"Orochimaru has been used to doing worse things for a long time. For now, this is just something mild…" Itachi said. He approached Asia and offered her a hand to help her stand up, "Soon we will have to go much deeper into this place, we cannot lose our composure so easily."
Asia nodded, reinforcing her attitude, forcing herself to look at the people inside the machines.
Itachi didn't take long to approach the machine where the person who was about to wake was gradually opening their eyes. Asia, as always, walked behind him.
"White hair, pale body, and a strange build…" Itachi said. He hit the glass of the machine, causing the liquid to spill out rapidly, and the person inside gradually opened their eyes.
"Hmph…" Itachi made a strange noise, approached, and removed the tubes connected to the person's mouth, nose, rear, and ears. When this happened, the albino who was "sleeping" suddenly woke up.
"Aaahh!!" The albino began to scream and move desperately, but it didn't last even a second. Itachi placed him under the control of a genjutsu and began giving orders for him to tell everything he knew.
"..."
"Orochimaru is the one who captured us and motivated us to achieve modifications in our bodies, he said we could gain the ability to use chakra, as well as gain something else…" The albino started breathing heavily, coughed up blood, and his body began to dry out.
Itachi pressed the genjutsu harder. The albino spat out something; it seemed he hadn't drunk water in a long time. "Tenseigan…" The albino sighed before his body started to crumble as if made of white sand.
"Hmph…" Asia made a hard-to-understand sound, forcing herself to stay strong as she watched this. Itachi said nothing; he just narrowed his eyes before shaking his head.
"Tenseigan?" Itachi asked himself, then shook his head. He stepped away from the machine and looked in a specific direction.
"Orochimaru left you here to guard the place?" After speaking, Itachi disappeared from his position, quickly appearing several hundred meters away. His hand moved at great speed, passing through the wall and grabbing something solid.
Crash
A man made of white tree bark, completely white and with a grotesque face, better said, a white Zetsu, came out of the ground trying to grab Itachi by the neck.
However, Itachi's other hand moved quickly, crushing the head of that white Zetsu.
The ninja pulled with a little more force what he was holding, the wall near him cracked, and then the body of a strange person was revealed.
With gray hair, white eyes that almost looked blind, and a fierce face, an albino was ripped from the wall by Itachi.
"What the hell?" The albino cursed while Itachi firmly grabbed his right arm, "You're stupid!! Lord Orochimaru will have no mercy…" Before the albino could finish speaking, Itachi had already placed a genjutsu on him.
...
"I…" The albino seemed to want to resist, but he completely fell into the genjutsu moments later.
"Lord Orochimaru will bring peace to this world, and for that, he needs strong men... Soon, soon, soon, I will be blessed with Lord Orochimaru's Tenseigan…" The albino began to speak, his face twisted, a brilliant smile appearing as his body trembled.
"Lord Orochimaru will give me the power of the gods!!!" The albino shouted, "HAHAHA!!!!" He began laughing loudly, but a squeeze from Itachi on his neck was enough to kill him.
The ninja threw the albino's body aside and walked toward Asia with a blank expression, "Tenseigan, huh?" he murmured, at the same time, he couldn't help but think about the author of the novel, "Children of the Prophecy," that Asia had mentioned earlier.
"I should look for the author of the novel…" Itachi said softly before reaching Asia and then began documenting everything in the place.
....
"Lucifer will take care of this later… for now, let's go, Rias will fight Riser tomorrow," Itachi finally said before ending the day.
In the underworld.
"Fire Style: Flare!!" Issei gathered a large amount of chakra and unleashed a powerful jutsu on a wooden training dummy. As a result, the dummy was completely charred.
People not far from him, Rias, Akeno, Sirzechs, Sona, and Grayfia watched this with bright eyes.
Their expressions varied, from surprise to calm, but all seemed to share one look: "understanding."
Sirzechs looked to the side, focusing on Rias. The meaning of his gaze was obvious, and the girl understood it.
"Water Style: Water Bullet," Rias formed several seals with both hands and finally shot a small ball of water at high speed. It hit the ground not far away, creating a small explosion of water and slightly penetrating the surface.
Sirzechs observed this and nodded. "It's beautiful, Rias, you've learned to master a powerful technique…" he said, although he didn't really believe it, Rias's water bullet seemed far less effective than destruction magic.
"I've never seen Itachi use a jutsu," Sona suddenly added, drawing everyone's attention.
"I mean, I've never seen him fight either, but…"
Sona began recounting the time she went into the forest at night because of strange sounds, and found a large area completely devastated, with all kinds of attacks deforming the place.
Sirzechs and the others pondered Sona's words for a moment, looking very serious.
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