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As the students boarded the bus, Luciana and some other members of the shadow garden, disguised as staff, talked with teachers and board members to finalize the procedures. After everyone was boarded, the bus began to head towards the airport.
Yes, with Roxanne's lavish sponsorship, the school trip that should have been taken by train was changed to a plane trip. In Roxanne's words, ' Since we only have one school trip, why not spend it in style?'
And since the whole airport is under Roxanne's name, the flight costs are actually free, so the school board didn't see any problem and agreed to Roxanne's idea.
"As expected of a trillionaire heiress of the Morningstar group, " Xenovia said as she looked at Roxanne with admiration. She wasn't the only one, as every other student was also giving Roxanne looks of respect.
"Hehehe, I get embarrassed if you praise me like that, " Roxanne said as she scratched her nose. Even though she was used to being the center of attention, these gazes with respect made her a little happy.
After all, when she usually brags about her deeds, she only gets blank stares or gazes filled with fear. Never had she gotten these gazes filled with utmost respect.
Just as she was enjoying herself, her senses suddenly began to detect some abnormal changes in the surroundings.
Curious, she began to let her senses run wildly to identify this sudden abnormality. In less than 3 seconds, she saw the abnormality was coming from Issei's sacred gear.
This made Roxanne narrow her eyes in contemplation. If she remembered correctly, the reason why this happened in the original timeline is that Issei somehow managed to make contact with an alien from outer space.
But in this timeline, that is impossible. This is because this world has her guarding it.
In this world of DxD, there are two ways to get stronger. One is by becoming stronger through training and refining one's own talents and breaking through one's own limits. This is how most people train. And this is also the way people advance from the low class to the Satan class. But to advance realms even further, the first method would no longer work.
So to advance further, they would need to use the second method, which is to understand their own concepts and become the embodiment of these concepts.
As we know, everyone is born with their own concepts. This is true for supernatural races or even humans. But less than 0.001% of the population detects their own concepts, much less understands them.
As we know, the first step in stepping onto the level of super devil is to project their own concept to the world and become the embodiment of the concept. And for one to take this step, they first need to understand their own concepts to a higher degree.
And in the whole devil race, there are only four beings who have been able to do this task. And in the god race, those who managed to earn the title of creator gods are also such beings. And after them, some of the god kings like Amaterasu, Indra, and Odin also stepped into this domain.
So one could say those who were in the Top 10 of the world's strongest all have stepped into this realm.
And the strongest three who reached the rank of Dragon God are the ones who took this concept to its highest level. At this level, they force the world itself to adapt to their own authorities.
For example, take Ophis. She is the embodiment of Infinity. This means she is the beginning and the end. No matter which spell or skill was used on her, they would instantly be under her control, as she is Infinity. Her concept had already become a part of this world, making her the administrator of this world. Unfortunately, the little girl didn't even bother to refine her powers, as she was constantly running around wanting to get her silence.
Roxanne even speculated that Ophis could theoretically control the world laws, as they also fall under the concept of infinity. As long as a thing could be measured, then it would fall under the control of Ophis.
If this girl wanted, she could manipulate the gravity increase by 100-fold, or even increase Earth's rotating speed, or even increase people's lifespan to infinite or infinite with a snap of her fingers.
Don't doubt it; this is all under the domain of Infinity. Some would even call this the domain of science and calculation.
Unfortunately or fortunately, this awesome power is in the hands of a clueless loli who is under Roxanne's control.
Similar to Ophis, Scarlet also has her own domain. The concept she embodied is the concept of a dream. Similar to Infinity, Dream is also a very broken concept. In fact, the sacred gears use this concept to help their hosts.
So the fact that some people were able to get out of some unexpected difficulties due to a sudden power-up is due to this concept. The sacred gear utilizes the dream concept and creates a miracle that would directly or indirectly help its host.
Similar to Ophis, Scarlet could also control everything that is related to her concept. This also meant she could theoretically be the nemesis of sacred gear holders and copy in person and manifest any being of her own imagination. And unlike Ophis, who still refused to grow up, Scarlet has always been very mature.
This is also why Ophis loses every fight they have, even when Ophis's concept is better than Scarlet's. Scarlet's understanding of her own concept is very deep, as she used this power to monitor the whole world.
In the past, there were only these two who had reached the rank of Dragon God in this world. So the world was naturally adapted to their own liking. For example, the reason why the Dimensional gap is dangerous is because it is made by the combination of their two authorities.
This is also why when someone gets lost in the dimensional gap, it is impossible to find them. Since the Demensional gap is made with the combination of Infinity and Dream, it is of course impossible for someone to find anyone without having an authority at the same level as Great Red and Ophis.
So it is because of this that many evil organizations and many hidden bases were stationed inside the Demensional gap. After someone comes, they would be impossible to detect.
But this changed a few years ago. That is because of the birth of the third Dragon God-level being, and that is Roxanne.
With her birth, the situation in the dimensional gap changed. Now the dimensional gap is no longer filled with the concepts of infinity and dream; it now also has the concept of void.
And so with this concept added, many changes happened in this world. And the biggest change was that this whole world is now covered by a barrier, completely isolating it from the rest of the void.
This meant that this world of DxD no longer needed to worry about any invasion of aliens from outer space. With Roxanne's authority, no one is able to break into this world without her permission. Heck, even finding this world is not something they could do.
So Roxanne wondered, with all these conditions, will Issei still be able to come in contact with that goddess?
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