While the primary process would be handled by Albion because he was the Heavenly Dragon who was causing the entire Draconification Process on Valiana, Yhwach was given a different task, albeit no less important.
He would be controlling the Magic Array that was in charge of supplying Valiana Magic Power, and he would be basically sharing the burning of her Soul with her. This was rather a complicated piece of Magic that he managed to devise with the help of several Gods from the Hindu Pantheon.
But as he knew that the 3rd Phase of the Draconification Process was typically the most lethal and had the highest mortality, Yhwach created a method through which, he would be able to share the stress with Valiana.
Approximately around one-half of the pressure on her Soul from the Dragon Soul Creation would be held by him. According to his calculation, if the Magic Array worked as it should be working even in this area, then Valiana would have basically guaranteed success in the 3rd Phase of the Draconification Process.
Obviously, he never really tested because, well... there wasn't any place to test it properly, so he could only hope that it was working well. Theoretically, there shouldn't be any problems with the Magic Array or, rather, with this precise part of the Magic Array.
He checked the inscriptions several times over, and everything was right and without any problems. Hopefully, nothing would go wrong during the process, or else it would be a serious problem, but he was confident in his own capabilities.
Soon enough after he was ready, Albion started the 3rd Phase of the Draconification Process as he started changing Valiana's Soul into the Dragon's Soul. As Albion started the process, Yhwach immediately felt his fair share of pressure, and he had to admit that it was very painful even for him.
Despite not being targeted directly...
He now understood that most of the people failed in this phase and even died because if this was just half of what it was supposed to be... The pressure was too intense, and even he at Level 4, who was God at that, was feeling the pain.
It was really amazing how Valiana was able to withstand it, even though she was still a Level 3 Being. But she handled it very well; that was something to behold. Fortunately for him, because he was God and already had a very powerful Soul, he was able to withstand it really well.
He controlled the Magic Array and activated the Soul Protection Inscriptions that were integrated into the Magic Array. He immediately activated the part of the Magic Array and protected Valiana's Soul from the potential damage that she could suffer.
With him mitigating half of the pressure on his own Soul, the process of the Dragon Soul Creation was progressing very smoothly and without any problems. Due to the amount of preparations that were done on this, contrary to all previous hosts, Valiana's Soul was transformed into the Dragon Soul within a few hours, and actually without any problems.
But Valiana was also one of the cases that happened once in a millennium because she received so many treasures to make this process as safe as possible, and the one that would be completed within one day.
The moment when the first three phases of the Draconification were completed, the only one that was remaining was the fourth phase, which was the complete Metamorphosis, which was to finish the entire transition to the Devil Dragon.
When the Dragon Soul Creation Stage was finished, the Metamorphosis started spontaneously out of nowhere, as something akin to a biological cocoon started appearing around Valiana.
Simultaneously, when the cocoon was created, it started resembling the dragon's egg because of the scales that were on the outside, and the cocoon was draining the residual Magic from the environment at a staggering rate.
It was really fascinating to observe the Metamorphosis for the first time in a row; things like this were exceedingly rare. Even more so when the process was guaranteed to succeed, like in this case.
Yhwach observed how the level of the Magicules in the egg cocoon, or whatever it was, had already reached the peak of Level 4, and it was still climbing further, soon enough crossing into Level 5 with rather ease.
He knew that it was due to the presence of the Heavenly Dragon, who was doing the Draconification Process, that Valiana's entire being was right now reforged, evolved, and elevated to a much higher form of life than it was before.
[And the process is now complete. Now we need only to wait.]
Soon enough, after the waves of the wild Magicules that were swirling quieted down, he heard Albion's voice in his head as the White Dragon Emperor of Supremacy projected his voice directly into his mind.
'How long?'
There was not much in the literature about the Metamorphosis of the Dragons, and from the bits that some researchers managed to do, it was more than clear that the Dragon Metamorphosis wasn't something that would end shortly and most probably would take a good number of days...
Perhaps even weeks.
[It is very hard to tell. Though with the amount of Magicules that were assimilated by the cocoon, I would give it at least a few months before the Metamorphosis is complete.]
Yhwach nodded, hearing that because there was really nothing he could do about this, as the only thing he could do was to wait. He knew that right now, the most important thing for Valiana's Metamorphosis to go without many problems was a steady supply of Magic.
She was obviously getting due to the very high Magic Density in the environment, but also due to the Magic Arrays that were supplying the cocoon with more and more Magic to burn and support the process.
Thus, after everything was done, Yhwach knew that it would take some time before it was complete, and thus, he decided to return home and do his own things.
'I will return tomorrow to check on the cocoon and on the Magic Array.'
Yhwach said to the Heavenly Dragon, who was overseeing Valiana's final phase of the Draconification, as he then returned back to Mount Kailash. He would come here every few days to check on things, ensuring that everything was working as it should, and wait until Valiana's process of Draconification had been finished.
***
Divine Realm of the Hindu Pantheon, Mount Kailash
Several weeks had passed since the start of the Metamorphosis, and every few days, Yhwach would come to check on the metamorphosis process, chat with Albion for a while, and also control the Magic Array if everything was alright.
Albion was also considered one of his teachers in Magic because the old Heavenly Dragon was very well-versed in the Arcane Arts and achieved very high mastery in various types of Magic.
One would be very hard-pressed to find a better teacher for the Magic. Dragons, as begins of the pure Magic, congregated into the fleshy form, were best suited for Magical Arts, and Magic was always one of the strongest weapons of the Dragon.
Even though the Dragons were more famous for their fearsome physical capabilities but, their most powerful weapon was actually their Magic and the unique Racial Magic called Dragon Magic that was capable of unprecedented destruction like nothing else.
Sometimes, even the most amateurish dragons who barely could cast proper spells would be able to cast far more powerful spells than some of the most powerful and experienced human Magicians.
Albion was obviously one of the most skilled Magicians because, as the Heavenly Dragon, he hit the brick. For a very long time, he was stuck at Level 8, Heavenly Dragon, and couldn't advance to the higher Level and ascend to the Dragon God Level.
This also happened to the Ddraig, so the best thing that they could do was, if they couldn't advance to the higher Level, they turned their attention to mastering their Dragon Magic and tons of the other branches of the Magic.
Yhwach learned a lot from the Albion about Divine Magic and Space Magic, and he also started learning the Runes from the Albion. As the White Dragon Emperor of the Supremacy was very old, he knew many obscure and forgotten types of Magic, one of them being the Runes and Runic Magic.
Now, the Runes and Runic Magic were actually not obscure or forgotten, but at the same time, it was something that was very rare in modern times. Mainly because the requirements to learn and use Runes were very, very high.
Even the most basic ones were something that was very powerful and at the same time very complicated.
Not to mention the Primordial Runes, whose practitioners could be counted on one hand in the Draconic Deus, even the Ancient Runes, or even more basic Elder Runes, were something that only a scarce number of people practiced nowadays.
Yhwach was very keen on learning the Runes of all kind, because the Runes were like the Computer Code.
Like the Code that was creating the Program, the Runes were creating the world; theoretically speaking, if one had access to sufficiently powerful Runes, comprehended their meaning and knew how to use them correctly, then they would be able to use almost everything with them.
In the past weeks, Albion has started teaching him the Runes. They started with the Elder Runes because they are the most fundamental and basic Runic Language, primarily developed by the Nordic Pantheon.
Right now, most practitioners of the Elder Runes, Ancient Runes and one or two users of the Primordial Runes were from the Nordic Pantheon.
Most of the Runes, in the end, stemmed from the Nine Realms of the Yggdrasil and from Odin, who was one of the few people in the world who mastered several of the Primordial Runes by offering his right eye to the Yggdrasil as a sacrifice to see the secrets of the Universe.
After Yhwach started learning the Runes, he realized that his capabilities with things like Magic Arrays or Enchanting skyrocketed because using Runes was far more efficient than just simple enchanting like most people are doing nowadays.
Yet the requirements were also steep, but because of his overwhelming talent and presence of the Unique Skill Great Sage, he didn't really have much problem with the comprehension of the Elder Runes and was progressing at lightning speed.
Yhwach heard the mechanical voice of the Unique Skill Great Sage as he finished the study time with Albion about the Elder Runes. Even the Heavenly Dragon was rather surprised by the speed at which Yhwach was comprehending the Runes.
But to him, it wasn't any wonder because for Yhwach, this was nothing more than just a Coding Language. Albeit vastly different and on top of everything, it was Magicla who had the power to reshape reality itself; the fundamental essence was very similar.
If not for the very high requirements on the Soul of a person and other things, he was sure that the number of Rune Masters and people capable of using the Runic Magic would be far higher than it is right now.
He knew that the requirements on the Soul were probably as high as they were on the comprehension capabilities of a person to properly understand the Runes themselves.
Soon enough, he would be able to start researching the Ancient Runes, considering his progress on the Elder Runes. And the Ancient Runes were an entirely different breed of the Runes because they were far more powerful and had far more profound effects on the world itself.
Since learning the Elder Runes, Yhwach had made a plan to put them to use soon enough because he felt that the Runes would be the center of his new Magic experiences with space Magic.
Even though his last escape with the Space Magic didn't really go well, he didn't give up and continued to research the most unorthodox usage of the Space Magic. What he wanted to achieve was to connect two places in space, albeit only one of the places was known to him, the second was unknown.
He was striving to create some sort of Dimensional Pathway to a new world, dimension, or even pocket dimension so the Hindu Pantheon could exploit it for resources.
Right now, the most significant problem for the Draconic Deus is that everything has already been claimed, and it is very hard to achieve a new development on that topic. He already considered going to the Moon because, with the Moon around the Earth, there were bound to be many precious resources.
The problem with that was the fact that it was the Moon of Earth, so the other Pantheon and Factions would raise a fuss about the Moon. Not to mention, there was then the probability of revealing the entire existence of the Supernatural to the regular humans, but that wasn't really his concern.
He found the thing with hiding the supernatural from the sight of the normal humans rather stupid. However, according to the signs, this secrecy would finally end in the near future, and he wouldn't need to be hidden if he went out to stretch out his wings.
And with the upcoming alliance between the Hindu Pantheon, Nordic Pantheon, and Celestial Court, he could see the reality of getting them to the Moon and starting the mining operations on the celestial body.
Their Milky Way Galaxy was huge, and it would be a rather good decision to explore it, but for that, they would need to traverse through space, and doing that purely with the Magic was highly inconvenient, so the need for some technological development was imminent and required.
In his past life, Yhwach was primarily a weapon developer. He knew how to create weapons and everything related to them, but creating an entirely new and complete technological tree was somehow beyond his current capabilities.
He would need some help on this, and unfortunately, within the Draconic Deus, there were not many people who were dabbling into the technology or the combination of Magic and Technology, creatively called "Magitech".
Besides Ajuka Beelzebub and Azazel, the number of skilled engineers and scientists was rather low because this wasn't really the most common topic to which people of the Draconic Deus would give their time.
He understood the sentiment very well...
In societies where you could get personal power, not the illusions of power like money, politics, or anything like those, because they were not really. Once you were left without money, without position, without rank, without status, you would be just a man.
A man who bleeds and dies like everyone else.
No...
In the Draconic Deus, people could grasp real power.
Power to reshape reality, destroy continents, and live for the millennia to come.
And that thought led to the stagnation of technological development because technological development wasn't giving you power. Thus, in the eyes of many, especially talented people, it wasn't very important to do research on the technological development because the results wouldn't be really that good.
No matter how powerful technology was, it was futile in front of absolute power. Take, for example, the Cosmic Lifeforms; they could serve a degree of destruction that could obliterate the entire planet with ease.
Gods could reform after their entire beings were destroyed in supernovas like nothing and continue with their living.
But Yhwach knew that Draconic Deus would be royally fucked up if they were ever to encounter a civilization that combined both the concepts of Individual Power and Technical Advancement.
That wouldn't really end well for them.
But that was something for a later date in the rather distant future... hopefully.
***
After three weeks, the end of Valiana's Metamorphosis was still not foreseeable, as Albion told him it would take more time. Fortunately, the reason it would take more time wasn't some bad unforeseen circumstances but rather something good finally happening.
After he gave her the Synergy with the Purified Devil Bloodline Essence, it seemed that the trigger on the Lucifer Bloodline was more powerful than expected, not something that even he predicted and he managed to awaken her dormant Clan Trait.
Which was a piece of splendid news.
Probably on the same level as her Metamorphosis because the Lucifer Clan Traits were very powerful, on the bordering of being overpowered.
The Demonic Brilliance of Evil Light was an extremely powerful and incredibly versatile Clan Trait that was perhaps matched only by the Power of Destruction of the Bael Clan, but even that wasn't really the case because the Power of Destruction was solely aimed to destroy.
And it seemed that Valiana would also awaken the Sacred Gear Canceller, or if she was a bit lucky, she could awaken Lucifer's innate version of the ability that allowed them to cancel usage of any type of Soul Bound Equipment called Soul Gear Nullifier.
So, hearing this piece of news, Yhwach was rather delighted because the stronger Valiana became, the better it would be for him and the entire Hindu Pantheon. Valiana had the potential to reach greater heights and be a very powerful expert.
Yhwach was spending most of the time when Valiana wasn't present either researching Magic, training, reading books and learning Elder Runes from Albion. The White Dragon Emperor was rather happy after some time that someone wanted to learn knowledge from him.
Dragons also prided themselves on being wise and knowledgeable. Many of them liked to be praised for their wisdom and imparted their wisdom and skills to those who were worthy of such favor.
With his progress on the Elder Runes increasing and after reaching the Expert-ranked Mastery, Yhwach started experimenting with some Runic Engraving on some random weapons.
Nothing really expensive, as he went to the forges underneath Mount Kailash where the Asura and Deva blacksmiths were forging weapons and tools of war and asked the Grandmaster of the Forges, who was also God of Forging in the Hindu Pantheon, for a few hundred ordinary weapons that were about to be smelted away.
He then started the rather arduous process of Runic Engraving, which was a total pain in the ass, and after several tens of destroyed weapons and other pieces of equipment, he finally managed to get a hold of the very elementary form of Runic Engraving.
The effects were subpar compared to the normal Runic Engraving that he had seen in the Pantheon, but it was rather good for the newbie as he had heard from the Albion and God of Forging.
In the entire Hindu Pantheon, only a small number of people were proficient in Runic Engraving, but there was a huge demand from the Asuras for their weapons and gear to be engraved and inscribed with Runes.
To increase their power, durability and give them some extra effects. Because of this, the Runes and their variations were of the utmost importance, and Rune Masters were always in high demand by many, many factions.
Yhwach was already pondering if the process couldn't be automated, technically speaking, it should be possible.
Obviously not entirely, because the Rune Engraving was something that couldn't be done by a golem or automaton or any kind of machine, but hypothetically, certain parts could be done that way, and then the Rune Master would do only the last part.
The Runes, Inscriptions, and other things were sooner or later essential for any kind of war effort and were crucial for the more advanced pieces of equipment and weapons.
***
In today's lesson on the Elder Runes, Albion was explaining some more advanced usage of the Elder Runes; suddenly the cocoon started violently shaking, and something was happening inside of it.
Albion didn't say anything for a while, as his consciousness immediately disappeared from Yhwach's Mind Realm and returned back to Valiana's body as he started controlling the waves of the energy that were being radiated from the cocoon.
It seemed that the process of the Metamorphosis was being completed as they were speaking about the advanced usage of the Elder Runes. It was more than three months or so, since Valiana started the Draconification Process because it took much longer than they had initially anticipated.
Mainly due to the awakening of the Demonic Brilliance of the Evil Light and the other trait of Lucifer, most possibly the Sacred Gear Canceller, but it would be very much welcomed if Valiana awakened the Soul Gear Nullifier.
Yhwach immediately controlled the Magic Array, though this time with newfound precision as he noticed that with his increased mastery over the Runes and their understanding, he could control the Magic Array much better than before.
He instantly started pouring Magic into the cocoon and activated several secondary Magic Arrays that were there to prevent anything from exploding and, most importantly, to prevent all of the Magic that was being congregated in the cocoon from going highwire, because..
That would probably tear apart even Level 6 beings.
The amount of Magicules in Valiana's cocoon was reaching a really ridiculous degree, but Yhwach understood the reason why this was happening and why such a tremendous amount of Magic was needed for her Metamorphosis.
[Control the Energy Dispersion Array and activate them the moment the Magicules start dispersing. Valiana's Metamorphosis is nearing the end, and while the rest of the process went without literally any complications, this is the best time for something to happen and also the most dangerous time.]
Soon enough, Yhwach heard Albion's voice in his head as the White Dragon Emperor of Supremacy spoke with a certain urgency in his voice. He followed the Heavenly Dragon's instructions and activated several Magic Arrays, which acted as Energy Dispersion Arrays.
Their sole purpose was to dispose of the unwanted Magic that would be released during the process. Yhwach had created one primary, whose purpose was to be activated all the time during the process of the Metamorphosis and was basically just a secondary function.
But for the cases if something serious happened and they would need to redirect huge amounts of Magic one way or another, he created several secondary Energy Dispersion Arrays on his own.
He took control of them as the area around the cocoon lit up in a green light, and various symbols were pulsating with green light as they started transporting away the residual Magic or the Magic that was released by the cocoon back to the enviroment.
It would be rather dangerous to let it be on it's own.
That could seriously disrupt any Magical process and lead to fatal consequences, even with things that were much simpler than the Draconification Process. When it came to more complicated things like that, then not even the slightest mistake was to be tolerated.
As Yhwach took control of the Energy Dispersion Arrays, he immediately started disposing of the additional Magic that wasn't really needed and that could be a threat to the entire process, while at the same time controlling the other parts of the Arrays that were in place to smooth the reactions from the cocoon.
Judging by the amount of vibrations it released and the energy levels one could sense from it, the process was clearly done successfully, which was more important than anything else.
Even if it failed, then it wouldn't be really that big deal if Valiana was all right. Yhwach didn't wish to see her being hurt or possibly worse, so seeing that the process was successfully done and without problems was something that really put away huge stone from his heart.
And just as he was pondering over the matter, he was surprised by the huge burst of pure Magicules that were released from the destruction of the cocoon that was previously covering Valiana.
The cocoon that was previously covering her was now cracking apart as it fell piece by piece, revealing Valiana's figure from the cocoon. Aside from being naked, which he really had to control his hormones, because she was hot...
One thing that he noticed for certain was that the supernatural females were supernaturally beautiful, like to the extreme. As if the woman's Magic responded to it and preserved their appearance in as perfect a shape as possible.
Her appearance also changed a bit, because she now had shining golden eyes and had a pair of draconic horns on the top of her head that were rather big and gave her a certain majestic appearance.
At the same time, her wings have changed to a more draconic appearance, compared to the Devil Wings, which ironically looked like bat wings. Her tail also evolved to resemble that of the Dragon rather than the Devil.
It seemed that the Hybridization to the Devil Dragon, even though Valiana had more draconic traits than devilish traits. Yet, at the same time, there was a certain malevolent aura around her, and several places around her body were covered by dark black scales.
Mainly the area around her neck, places where arteries were located, and also her chest, around her breasts, where her hearts were located. Everything was covered by the draconic scales, whose purpose was to protect Valiana from potentially lethal attacks on her person.
What caught his attention, aside from the other most notable things that were really eye-catching, was how her aura had changed. Right now, Valiana skyrocketed to the peak of the Level 4 Ultimate-Class straight away.
It was rather a moonshot, and now she really stood among the stronger bunch of people in this world. With her current power, just with the raw power alone, flattening up a few mountains won't be really a problem, and this wasn't counting her other special abilities.
Even before, Valiana was always one with something that the ones from the Celestial Court called Heaven Defying Battle Power. Basically, they are able to easily fight, defeat, and kill opponents above their Level, sometimes vastly above their Level.
Like Yhwach, who was technically only at the peak of the Level 4 Minor God with Divine Rank 5 and relatively unstable control over his powers right now, Yhwach was still pretty confident in defeating and killing most of the Level 5 individuals, including a good number of Level 5 Lesser Gods.
For a moment, Demonic Energy swirled around rather furiously as she attempted to calm it down, while one part of his eyes was still marveling at her naked figure, which soon enough was noticed by Valiana.
Even though she was rather pleased with herself, at the same time, she then realized that she was completely naked and left some of the berserk Demonic Energy attack Yhwach as the young Seraph God raised a golden barrier to protect himself almost in an instant.
Seeing the energy dispersing easily, but still some cracks forming on his barrier, made Yhwach raise his eyebrows at this because it was no small feat. He was fairly powerful on his own, but his mastery over Magic and his own power was something that was even more frightening than the raw power itself that he commanded.
After several moments, the monumentum of Valiana's Demonic Energy that was lashing out everywhere subsided as it quietly died as she retained control over everything. When she regained some rudimentary control over her Demonic Energy, Yhwach came to her with a set of clothes that he had prepared for her, because she was still naked.
Valiana quickly changed into more comfortable robes.
"So, how are you feeling?"
Yhwach asked as he studied some more pronounced changes around her body or her Energy. It wasn't everything that one had the honor to see the perfect Metamorphosis of two species...
In a certain sense, Valiana was now the Primogenitor of the Devil Dragon Species because she was the first and only of the Devil Dragons right now, but if she were to have descendants, she would become a true Primogenitor.
Primogenitors were special existences in the world because, according to his father, they received blessings from the world itself. It was like the world itself was favoring them as they were Ancestors to all of the members of their species.
"Powerful... very, very powerful and also full of energy, though I would need to train a lot to control my power. Though I hate to admit that... all of the exercises of for the Demonic Energy Control are really paying off."
Valiana said with a certain degree of reluctance because she really hated all of the Energy Control exercises that Yhwach made her do. It wasn't something that she particularly enjoyed, and in fact, she disliked them because they were very hard and arduous and repetitive work.
In the end, she felt the true value of all the hours she painstakingly spent training the control exercises to attain as much control over her Demonic Energy as possible. Without it, she felt that it would be very hard to even successfully complete the Draconification Process without side effects because the price energy control was crucial.
Not to mention when, now, after the completion of the process, her Demonic Energy was going berserk, and she couldn't completely control her power. She understood why Yhwach and Albion were so insistent on training her Demonic Energy Control as much as possible when the results finally showed themselves.
"That's understandable... the purity of your Demonic Energy that merged with the Dragon Magic Power is staggering, and your raw power is no less than average Level 5 Devil, Fallen Angel, Pure Angel, or human."
Yhwach said that when he conducted a few quick scans on Valiana's Demonic Energy, he realized that it was only one category weaker than his very own Celestial Force. Even though there was still a tremendous disparity between the Celestial Force of his and whatever Valiana had, it was a remarkable achievement.