Cursed by Randomness

Ch.83 [ Red spills destruction ]

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"Hmhm" William hummed to himself as he sat atop his small house. His shadows were spread thorough the whole area which DxD 'owned'. Or well, through her planet. As they were seeking for last person he was meant to get his hands on.

In his hands a small list of who and where they were or from. "Let's see~" humming to himself he slowly checked each person until he found something a bit strangeish. "Igris, take Beru with you. Check the Gremory household in underworld, I think I have remembered about one more girlie." William ordered calmly as his mind flashed to back before the massive time reset happened.

As he sat there, he created a piece of paper and a pencil for himself. Slowly starting to draw a portrait, slowly he made strokes with the pencil. As one person appeared on it, then another and another.

"Girlie, Angelika, Momo, Krasnij. Naofumi, Raphtalia, Luna, Ambrosia. John and Mona." William muttered to himself as it was all people who made somewhat of change in his lives. "And finally." He took another piece of paper as he drawn on left side 'people' with himself in middle, leaving right side empty. "Monarchs and Rulers... shame we didn't really meet. Except those two, or its my faulty memory." Muttering to himself, he stored those items in his shadow.

His mind momentarily came back to the woman dubbed 'Girlie'. 'To think, that my last job in that damn cartel. Was human trafficking and I went and rescued that girl at that time of time.' Smiling to himself. William looked up into the starless dead sky, channeling a power through his body. Red strings slowly formed into a cocoon entrance in front of him. "Remind me. What was power of 'Red Strings'?" Asking himself loudly, Will waited for Sys's response as he walked right into the cocoon and appeared in a place laid out and created with only red strings.

Well, it was dimension travel of sorts. But why sudden interest?

William smiled to himself and calmly walked around the space, he instinctively knew where the entrance/exit he was 'from' was. Even if it was now closed, "Ah, you see little sys." He smiled to himself and opened another path somewhere randomly as it soon showed him to his surprise. "That looks like Remnant." Muttering to himself, the other 'him' turned to Will. "Don't fiddle too much with Red Strings, me of past." It was a moment, but the message was instantly sent into his brain "Why wouldn't I?" He smirked to his other self. "Remember that everyone who can use Red Strings can enter that spot, and each of 'me' and 'you' is different yet same. Take it with salt or something." The other one sent a last message and forcefully closed the entrance.

So, how's the impression of your other self?

"Honestly?"

Duh.

"He was fucking strong." William muttered and continued walking around, sensing where its 'safe' and 'dangerous'. "The amount of mana he had- It was for sure slowly seeping in here. It was as if, unlike me who's like a small reactor." He muttered and stopped in what seemed to be the most vile and dangerous spot. "He was... I don't know." Muttering to himself he scratched himself in search of an answer "No... In comparison, to that 'Me'. I was a plankton and he was whole ass Nebulae. He could whiff me out of existence with a mere thought. I'm sure of it." Reaching forward, William opened a small exit. Sulfuric smells assaulted his senses, mana that he usually released around himself instantly burned away.

In a moment, he felt something glare at him. It didn't attack instantly as it only observed him. William tried closing it, but whatever ugly thing was there kept the metaphorical door open by force. "A new String." Hearing heavy voice, the mana coming out of the small opening instantly lit parts of William's body aflame. It wouldn't be that bad if it was Normal flame or something bit above as he had already garnered resistances or immunities to those. But those were 'Concept?' Staring onto the flame, he summoned up shadows with his control over shadows an tried snuffing the flames out. "Incomplete. Unamusing. Leave." The exit closed but the flames which were continuously snuffed out came back.

'Dammit! Was that another me? The first one said that all exits connect to Red String users, what kind of fucking monster it was?!' He thought to himself as the flames didn't die out but increased in strength as they coated more of his body. "OI! That murky thingy! Come out!" He shouted to himself trying to grasp at it, like how it released itself back during the fight with Loki's clone that was anchored to Yggdrasil's roots.

As he called out. The black liquid with tar-like texture burst out and laid it's claim at the flames which were burning William's body. Even if from time to time somehow the black tar lit aflame, it instantly eat up those flames as after a painful hour. There was no speck of flame left.

Checking himself, William repaired his burnt 'cloth' with Darkness and Shadows. "Dammit. That's a hot one. But it felt smaller than the first guy." Muttering to himself he started walking back to where he was 'from'.

"Both time and dimension travelling power, it's kinda interesting." Humming to himself he reopened the path back 'home' and stepped through, closing it. He found his shadows coming back

[My Lord! My dearest King!] Beru theatrically fell on his knees in front of William who stared at him somewhat amused "Go on Beru, keep it short."

[We found the-] He looked at his lord for a moment, having a problem to address the woman he ordered him to find. [That silver madam, we found her. There was two of them there, but one had... strangeish mana around her!]

The ant received a headpat from William "Good job, all of you take rest." He calmly ordered as everyone shortly nodded and fell into his shadow.

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Appearing in middle of the Devil Underworld, William stretched a bit with a smile 'Welp. Finally done.' Observing his last target from distance, he knew that the so called 'Lucifer' had sensed him for sure. As William only hid his Magical signature, "It'll be painless." He muttered and suddenly appeared in front of the adult silver-haired woman who closely resembled Grayfia. As his hand was about to stab her right through stomach.

His hand was caught by Sirzechs himself "Boom." William said as shadow and dark energies exploded at where Lucifer's arm was at.

But it was completely destroyed "What do you think you are doing?" As Sirzechs spoke, the pure power of destruction coming out of his body was ravaging the very ground the three were standing upon. "My job." In response William threw a fist which was sparking with dangerous white light towards Sirzechs, who simply swatted the fist to side.

The two created a bit distance between each other. "I'll bash your skull in." William said with eerie calmness as his fingertips lit up with existential erasure. While Sirzechs skin started 'coming-off' as it revealed pure dark red mass of energy. "I'd prefer to talk this over. But-" Sirzechs said as soon his whole body was covered with pure energy of destruction. "- I think we are past that."

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~Casually recharging my batteries or something~