Chapter 503: My Profession Panel Is in an Anime Style? Chapter 236

Having spoken, Raphael closed his eyes, unwilling to look any longer at the colleague who had shouldered everything after choosing to leave on his own.

Hearing this, Michael could not help but open his mouth to say something, but upon seeing the pity on Uriel's face beside him, he ultimately chose to shut his mouth.

The archangel realized that the two colleagues before him did not believe the words he had just spoken.

Seeing this, Raphael and Uriel stepped forward and patted Michael's shoulder, then left the sixth layer in silence.

At this moment, Michael was like a drowning man; the suffocating feeling lingering in his heart made it hard for him to breathe.

'... Could it really be my imagination?'

Just as he was thinking this, an extraordinarily lavish spread of food suddenly burst into his view.

Accompanying the food was a somewhat timid voice: "Lord Michael, I believe you."

It was Gabriel.

Michael looked at the female archangel whose eyes were full of heartache, and could not help but freeze on the spot.

After quite a while passed like this, he reached out and pushed the food back: "Thank you, Gabriel."

"I'm fine."

That's right—he was now the only one his brothers and sisters could rely on; how could he give up just like that!

At the very least,

he could not let the angels who still believed in him worry.

What Michael did not know, however, was that Gabriel simply felt heartache over the food she had just retrieved from the lower world, and it was not as complicated as he imagined.

Seeing that Michael did not need the food, the Great Thunder angel secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

Just as she was preparing to leave, a voice suddenly came from behind her: "Gabriel, have everyone keep an eye out for traces of the Lord."

"Understood, Lord Michael."

Watching the last colleague depart, Michael let out a light breath, then turned his head to look at the 【System】 behind him.

That was definitely not his imagination. If the large number of bugs disappearing within the 【System】 could still be explained by self-detection, then how was that light like the Lord's to be explained!?

'Lord... where exactly are you, why do you refuse to come see us...'

Unable to help letting out a soft sigh in his heart, Michael's gaze gradually grew resolute.

……

Beneath a purple sky, a colossal castle stood upon the earth.

Within the castle, the red-haired Demon King looked at the intelligence in his hands and could not help but furrow his brow tightly: "What are these angels preparing to do?"

After the ancient great war, the three great powers—demons, angels, and fallen angels—had all suffered grievous losses.

The demons hardly needed mentioning; the Four Demon Kings and most of the high-ranking demons had died clean in that great war, while the fallen angels had lost the vast majority of their officers.

As for the angels—

those birdmen had begun to contract their forces after the ancient great war.

Fortunately, the demons later developed a technology called Demon Pieces, barely managing to catch their breath.

But even so, they still did their best to maintain low-intensity struggles with the other two powers, to prevent the conflict from escalating.

Yet now, the intelligence in the hands of Serafall Leviathan indicated that those angels had recently begun to grow active again for some unknown reason.

"Could it be because of that Infinite Dragon God?"

Just as the Demon King Serafall Leviathan was furrowing his brow in thought, a voice suddenly rang out in the empty castle hall.

Serafall looked up and saw a black-haired girl adjusting the magical girl outfit on her body.

Ignoring the other's attire, which clashed with the surrounding environment, Serafall frowned and asked: "Serafall, do you think what that one from Mount Sumeru said is credible?"

"The third Dragon God or something..."

Hearing this, the black-haired girl named Serafall shrugged her shoulders: "Who knows."

Saying so, she finished adjusting her outfit, then struck a classic magical girl pose: "Tada! Magical Girl Leviathan-chan, sortie!"

"..."

Seeing this, Serafall pinched the bridge of his nose with a slight headache, turned his head to look at the silver-haired maid beside him and asked: "What is the reaction from the other powers?"

Faced with the inquiry, the silver-haired maid behaved meticulously and answered swiftly: "Most pantheons are taking a wait-and-see attitude; after all, the survival of the Qliphoth has nothing to do with them."

Saying this, she suddenly paused, then continued: "However, on the Norse pantheon side..."

"Since some time ago, no news has come out at all."

Hearing this, Serafall could not help but fall into deep thought.

After quite a while passed, the red-haired Demon King finally spoke: "Tell Rias to be careful... never mind, have her come back for a visit in the recent period."

"... You just want to see Rias, don't you?"

Faced with his wife's merciless exposure beside him, Serafall's expression instantly stiffened, and he immediately began spouting nonsense.

Something about how an older brother should care for his younger sister...

Seeing her husband reveal such an unreliable appearance, the silver-haired maid's face rarely showed a hint of helplessness, but she ultimately chose to comply.

Kuoh Academy, old school building.

Rias looked at the paper slip slowly burning to ash in her hand, and a trace of doubt could not help but flash through her eyes.

'Why is my brother suddenly telling me to come back?'

Over so many years, she rarely returned to the Underworld; after all, compared to being a good girl at home, she preferred to carve out a career for herself out there.

'Well, it wouldn't hurt to go back and see Father and Mother.'

Thinking this, Rias stood up, and took one last look at the academy she had occupied for a long time.

During these days, she had already used her servants to thoroughly investigate Issei Hyoudou's situation; the Sacred Gear residing within him had indeed disappeared, but there were some other things added.

For example, a literary talent overflowing to the brim.

Rias was quite certain he had never shown any talent in this area before; there was clearly something off about it.

Unfortunately, no matter how she investigated, she couldn't catch the slightest clue, as if Hyoudou Issei had been born that way.

She prepared to give up; after all, an artifact of unknown strength wasn't worth her expending so much energy on it.

'Sigh, I can only look for another suitable servant.'

With that thought, the red-haired girl vanished in an instant.

……

Valhalla.

Li Ang looked at Li Zeweimu before him, who had completely lost all semblance of a human, his expression utterly calm.

At this moment, he was holding a set of pitch-black armor in his hands — a Sacred Gear made from the other party.

Ignoring the faint wailing by his ear, Li Ang began examining the armor's abilities.

【Inheritance of the Demon Child: Greatly enhances the wearer's demonic bloodline.

Note: If the wearer is not a demon, they will be forcibly transformed into a demon (usage limit 1/1)】

Actually, Li Zeweimu's representative ability was the nullification of Sacred Gears, so logically the Sacred Gear generated from him should have a similar effect.

But the problem was that this ability was too much of a waste for Li Ang; after all, the so-called Sacred Gears specifically referred to Sacred Gears, and once he left the High School DxD world, it would be completely useless. Therefore, he could only settle for the next best thing and start from this Great Demon's incomparably noble bloodline.

Fortunately, the final result wasn't bad.

Looking at the information popping up on his class panel, a slight smile involuntarily appeared on Li Ang's face.

【Contact with class key item, triggering class change: Abyssal Thrall】

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【Class: Abyssal Thrall】

【Class Change Requirements:

1. Body Strength 1.2, Spirit Attribute 1.1 (√)

2. Concentration of demonic bloodline in the body reaches low-rank demon layer (x)】

【After Class Change:

1. Attribute growth

2. Gain class skill — Low-level Demon Contract

3. Gain class specialties — Chaotic Bloodline, A Cannon Fodder's Life is Still a Life

4. Gain special bonus:

Slight increase in all-environment adaptability】

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