~ Week Later
One of Harry's fragments woke up, while another one went to sleep. As usual he was groggy as hell. Doesn't matter which Harry it was. All of them hated getting out of bed.
He looked at the floor near the bed as if it was the evilest thing in the world. Wishing to banish it from existence so that he could lay in bed forever.
But then he realized how stupid he sounds and realized all the work he has to get done so he reluctantly gets up. Again, this scene reputed itself no matter what Harry it was. It was not on purpose, but each and every one had the same reaction.
But recently Harry started to notice something different in his routine. The morning wood was definitely a new addition.
' This is both good and bad news. Good news i can have kids now. With my absurd talent, my kids should get some of it and help me out with my many, many problems..
I take that back. I can deal with the current problems. What I can not deal with is stupid self entitled main plot characters that I can not kill. You kill Rias and then come talk to me when that Sis-Con is chasing you across realms'
Currently Harry's desire for children came from his paranoia. Even with contracts you can never trust someone fully outside of family. And while the others are trying. Outside Hope and Melinda, they aren't really talented for MageCraft and are quite a bit older.
If they had started learning this at a younger age, they would be far more powerful than they are now. So instead he was going to have some kids, teach them all they need to know, make them capable. And have them compete amongst each other. The one who loses will be the new heir for the Wizarding Houses and gets to play politics with imbeciles. While the others chase after their dreams.
Knock. Knock
Harry heard knocking on the door and frowned 'Why is Hope knocking?' and then he realized why. "Come in, I'm not experimenting so nothing will explode"
Hope slowly opened the door, her Mana Shield was ready to be deployed and she was ready to run away.
"Hope you won't die from a simple explosion"
Hope just huffed "I won't die from a simple explosion but I will die from the shit you mix up in your labs. Oh and you have a letter" she raised her hand and it was an old school letter with a wax seal on it.
"From who is it? If it's from the French assholes ignore it. I told them to talk to me through Delacour. I get no spam mail since he deals with it, and he gets the reputation of having a close relationship with Harry Potter. Considering I'm not actively doing anything to help him I think he is losing out on that deal"
Hope read the words on the cover. "It's not from the French. Its from the 'British Cabal' "
Now that got Harry's attention, he raised his hand and the letter flung itself from Hope's hand and into Harry's. He quickly read through the letter and a smirk formed on his face 'Interesting. Just what I would expect from opportunistic bastards like them. The opinions the Captains had on the Leaders were spot on.'
"Who is it from?" Hope said curiously. Anything that makes Harry react is bound to be something interesting.
"A faction within the British Magician Association." Harry said with a smile "One of their members the Russel Family Syndicate has been harassing us for a few months and because of me they took serious losses. These guys smell blood and profit.
They want me to take out Russel and join their faction, in return they will vouch for me so the other members of the Association don't throw a fit. They are obviously after my Pots and other wizarding products."
"Wait so Russel is a member of their group and they are selling him out?"
Harry rolled his eyes "They are businessmen at heart. As long as the profit or prize is big enough they would sell their own family. Lets say theoretically a devil offers him High Class status in the underworld in exchange for everything they have. These guys wouldn't even blink.
They would accept in a heartbeat. Why wouldn't they? It might have taken them decades or maybe a century or two if they are a very old family. But if they get to be ageless and have high status. Then that's just a good deal, they can always rebuild."
Hope mused as she was processing this information. This is quite a big decision. There are twenty major magician families in the Association. But also many smaller ones. There are pros and cons to joining them.
As wizards they are viewed as savages by magicians. Mostly for good reason, that can't really be denied considering most wizards live like its the 18th or 19th century. Frankly only American and French wizards accept modern innovations.
"What do you plan on doing Harry and please help me understand it"
Harry turns to her and smiles. He really likes it when people show initiative to learn. Knowledge is power. That's how he got this strong. Lets say he got reincarnated with just his Harry Potter memories. He would have never reached this level and would remain close minded.
But because he has all of his memories of shows and amines, he knows what's out there, gods, eldritch beings, different magics, power systems, artifacts. It's because he knows they exist, that it gives him the confidence or trying out new things or trying to recreate them.
If anybody else did it and saw no result, they would think its impossible or a waste of time, while for him, it just means he is using the wrong method.
"Sure, I'll explain it, as you might have assumed the benefits are simple. More access to resources and more connections. They will probably ask for my Pots and wizarding materials. But I can get some rare stuff in return.
It will ease off the pressure from the magicians in Britain because of their views on wizards. Frankly I can't really blame them since i agree with them, it would be hypocritical of me to deny it"
Hope just had a wry smile on her face. Harry was never quiet about his 'low opinion' of wizards.
"The disadvantages are not that bad to be honest. But they will be a pain in the ass, I will have to get involved with their petty politics. That means playing the stupid game meetings, backroom deals, bribing and overall just delaying the whole process.
I'd be giving away my resources on which i currently have monopoly. They will definitely try to find a way to screw me over. And as the new guy I'm sure they will make it difficult for me, like late shipments to for some materials and petty things like that.
I'm also pretty sure they know about the hired assassins. I used my Viper identity to hire them. And since they are helping out me. Viper and Harry Potter must have some sort of connection. They will also want to know about that"
'That.. sounds reasonable. From what we have gathered on the twenty major families they are definitely the types to do that. Frankly if Harry joins he might just snap and cause a massacre'
"I can't" Harry suddenly says, surprising her
"I can see it on your face. I do admit I tend to lean towards violence, but its mostly because I get the fastest results that way. But if I join them I'm sure there are some contracts about not being able to target each other using force. Otherwise why is the Russel Family still standing?
The other families would have jumped at this opportunity to absorb them, the most likely reason is because they can't. These guys pressure each other economically and politically. And when someone shows weakness like the Russel's they just wait it out. Buying businesses and properties because the other party is short on money, all until they collapse completely and the surviving members are just absorbed into other Families."
Hope nodded "I see, that does make sense, but there are also the magician families in the middle, I'm sure they are also looking for a spot among the Major Families. So they would also be harassing the Family that is collapsing in hopes of replacing them."
"Exactly, and what do you think their reaction would be if a 'savage wizard' got a position among the Major Families."
Hope winced at that. That would not be fun.
"I'm going to need more information on their whole system before making a decision. I should also look into the situation among the middle class Families. If a deal can be reached with some of them, then i can consider the offer. If not, then it would be a waste of time to accept, since I will be dealing with bullshit from all sides and will be losing resources instead." Harry cracked his neck.
"What do you need from me?" Hope opened up her Archive
Harry thought for a moment before replying " Get me information on all magician families, clans, small groups are normally called 'Towers', look into them as well. The big guys are basically crime syndicates, so gathering info on them should be easy since they are famous.
Organize the information and give it to me. Use our people for this, I didn't recruit so many wizards and washed up magicians for nothing. Our fragments in Hogwarts will continue running experiments in the Room of Innovation"
Hope gave him a bright smile, she was happy to be handling important work "I won't let you down"
~ Meanwhile in Romania.
The situation in the vampire country has escalated. Previously only hunters and exorcist were sent to deal with the vampires. It was just a standard procedure, even when the numbers of the people going in to hunt vampires was increased, nobody really cared that much.
But the secret was out. The Tepes vampire faction had a Holy Relic. Now a lot of people were interested in that, hence why there were so many people in Romania.
Carmilla vampire faction wanted to stay away form this fight. It was perfect for them both factions have been fighting for centuries for the right to be the one true ruler of Vampires.
But suddenly the Tepes vampires got stronger and could even fight in daylight, that tipped the scales. Seeing so many people target the Tepes faction made Queen Carmillia smile with glee, but that didn't last long.
The new players didn't care that she wasn't involved with the Holy Relic. Any vampire in their sight was killed. This caused a lot of trouble for all the vampires. Carmilla called back all her people and abandoned her shops, night clubs, blood farms.
This worked, she was losing money, but was no longer losing her soldiers. The Tepes faction on the other hand was having a really tough time, even with the outside forces fighting each other due to grudges.
But the most shocking thing of all was the current state of the battlefield.
Armageddon.
That's what it looked for the Low and Mid Class fighters from all sides.
Humans, Angels, Devils, Fallen, Demigods and Vampires. There were no Ultimate Class yet on the battle field, but instead of that it was covered with High Class fighters from beginners to those who have reached the Peak of their Class.
It didn't matter what race they were the weak all felt the same way. Fear.
One particular vampire just dodged a Holy Spear by pushing another vampire into it.
"Salvatore! You bastaHHHHH"
Damon Salvatore was running for his life, using all the energy he had to travel through the shadows. His senses were spread out, he had decided to run away from the fight, not caring that he would be declared a traitor.
'What the hell is with this situation. I don't even know why everybody is so set on destroying us. The king said they wish to wipe out every vampire here, but that doesn't make any sense otherwise Carmilla's people would be hunted too.'
BOOOMMM!!!
'And then there are those two' Damon looked at the two figures fighting off several people. Demigods from the Hindu Pantheon. And they declared their names when they got here.
Aviraj and Vikram sons of Indra.
'And apparently they are one of the better ones, both sitting at peak High Class. The stronger demigods of this generation from the Hindu's.'
Damon shadow traveled behind a human priest and knocked the woman on the ground. He stabbed her heart and quickly bit the back of her neck draining her blood to recover.
'At least the chaos is making it easier to escape. I owe the two demigods, they killed my 'master'. May that bastard rot in hell. I am free and I'm done spending my time here. I need a fucking vacation.'
~
Aviraj and Vikram were back to back. Many people targeted them since they are one of the strongest here. Both were calm, blocking and attacking as one. Their teamwork is mostly the reason why the other fighters were having so much trouble.
As children of Indra they have control over lightning. On top of that when they reached High Class their father also gave them a minor blessed as a reward, granting them low level Divine Lighting. Making them much stronger than your average High Class.
"Remember we are not here to get the Holy Relic. That would be impossible with so many forces keeping an eye on things here. We just need to escalate the situation" Aviraj casually blocked a blood beam and threw lightning back at the vampire.
As soon as he attacked two enemies tried to take advantage of the timing but Vikram blocked for him and shot lighting arrows at them forcing them to retreat.
"Yes I know, Father was very specific. We just need to force the Ultimate Class warriors to act. The side that uses them first usually ends up at a disadvantage. Father divination showed that the girl with the Holy Relic will die here.
That would be the best scenario for all sides. Nobody wants Heaven to get their Holy Relic back, but they also don't want other factions to get it. So the solution is to just kill the host." Vikram grinned spamming more arrows at his enemies, the lighting arrows were very dangerous. Attacks containing divinity was not something that could just be blocked.
Avarai unleashed another barrage of lighting pushing back the people attacking them "I just wish they would hurry up. I miss home, hell my wife is pregnant and I'm out here fighting bloodsuckers and the trash from the Biblical Faction" he threw a wave at a group of mid class devils erasing them from the spot.
Vikram sighed " Calm yourself brother. We need to kill a bit more fo-"
BOOOOOOM
A demonic presence descended on the battlefield. It was a tanned woman with four pairs of wings. She had brown hair and was wearing glasses as she glared at all the people below her.
"Die" she raised her staff and beasts created out of water started to rush down below like meteors
"Time to run" Avarai bolted right out of there
"Agreed. Mission accomplished" Vikaram followed after his brother. Both of them completely ignored the carnage that was happening behind them. But the war had escalated and the devils made the first move.
~ A/N
As you can tell I'm not well versed in Hindu Mythology. I would assume that God's sleep with mortal women from time to time to make children as the Greeks do. But the Hindu's aren't like the Greeks. They don't lack in manpower.
Frankly they hold most of the manpower in DxD, They have 33 core gods and thousands more. Some sources say millions.
Like the Shinto Pantheon on their side they believe every single thing in existence has a god, rivers, tress, rocks, exc.