Throne Creation?!
Wait.
Noa didn't really know what that entailed.
[Host can create the Throne of God, allowing the authority to speak on behalf of God. Due to the host's race being [Human], the Mana allowed from the Throne of God is at B+ Rank but having the Personal Skill Protection of the Faith, Mana generated from the Throne is increased from A to A+++.]
[Host also gains access to the Class Skill - Divinity at A Rank while manifesting the Throne of God.]
OHHH!
Didn't that mean it was essentially a Mana Generator?!
Noa didn't really see the benefits of speaking of behalf of God seeing as the man was dead, but the Mana part was pretty important, seeing as a majority of his abilities or rather Merlin's Illusion Magecraft was heavily dependent on Mana.
That meant another one of his EX Rank skills were viable!
But damn, it looked like Protection of the Faith was putting in a shit ton more work than the system said!
Was the system lying to him?
[In accordance to Host's personality, the abilities of Protection of the Faith is summarized in a way related to [Combat].]
...
Well... it was true that Noa wasn't the type to read effects of weapons in games he played unless it looked cool...
But it would be nice to know, seeing as Protection of the Faith was inadvertently his most used Skill throughout his time in DxD.
[The Skill Protection of the Faith generates God's Blessings from the unused energy from the currently inefficient God's System due to the death of the Biblical God. This means that a majority of the energy is relegated to the Host, is much more than what God would originally use because there is no God to regulate the Blessings.]
Hmm... That made sense...
So what blessings did the Protection of the Faith actually entail?
[Protection from Poison]
[Protection from Curses]
[Protection from Disease]
[Protection from Starvation]
[Protection from Evil Intent]
[Protection from Miasma]
[Protection from Heat]
[Protection from Cold]
[Protection from Fatigue]
[Protection from Bad Luck - Not Applicable to the Gacha]
[Protection from Authorities]
[Protection from Suffocation]
[Protection from Hypnosis]
[Protection from Mental Contamination]
[Decreased Effectiveness of any attacks from [Devils]]
[Decreased Effectiveness of any attacks from [Fallen Angels]]
[Decreased Effectiveness of any attacks from [Vampires]]
[Decreased Effectiveness of any attacks from [Grim Reapers]]
[Decreased Effectiveness of any attacks from [Monsters]]
[Decreased Effectiveness of any attacks from [Dragons]]
[Decreased Effectiveness of any attacks from [Youkai]]
[Decreased Effectiveness of any attacks from anyone with [Evil] Intent]
[Decreased Effectiveness of any attacks from [Gods]]
[Resistance from Dark Magic]
[Resistance from Light Magic]
[Resistance from Elemental Magic]
[Resistance from Flooding]
[Increased Natural Regeneration]
[Increased Affinity with Holy Energy]
[Increased Affinity with Holy Swords]
[Increased Power of Stats]
[Increased Power of Skills]
[Increased Power of Noble Phantasms]
[Increased Power when fighting [Evil]]
[Increased Ability to create Life]
[Increased Affinity with [Lawful Good] Entities]
[Increased Affinity with [Neutral Good] Entities]
[Increased Affinity with [Chaotic Good] Entities]
[Increased Affinity with Entities with 'Pure and Just Faith' in God]
[Increased Affinity with [Angels]]
[Increased Sensitivity from [Evil] Intent]
[Increased Charisma]
[Increased Memory with Holy Scriptures]
[Can tell Salt from Sugar]
[Always Clean]
...Noa looked at the list, flabbergasted.
Was he the fucking reincarnation of Reinhard von Astrea?!
Also, what was the [Can tell Salt from Sugar] blessing supposed to be?!
While Noa did understand that his skill was EX Rank, other than some conveniences, he didn't really think it was EX Rank, but looking at this shitshow of a list, a sense of gratefulness was felt.
Thank God he pulled this skill...
Also, there was no way he would remember all that.
Holy...
Maybe God's death in DxD was a good thing if he got all these Blessings...
Noa flopped onto his bed, still looking at the screen filled with all his fucking blessings...
I understand it now.
Noa laid on his bed, changed out of his Captain Nemo outfit and into the trainee outfit that Griselda handed Noa and Lavinia when she led them to the dorms.
Even if the outfit may have looked cool, it was a splash of black on the whiteness that was the Vatican, white vestments on white vestments everywhere.
Also, when in Rome, do as the Romans do.
But Noa couldn't really fall asleep.
Hmm...
Noa had seen a cool looking Garden while Griselda walked him to the dorms, so maybe he would go take a look.
Putting on his new sandals, Noa slowly opened the door and looked around the dark hallways, only brightened from the moonlight streaming through the windows. Noa didn't really know if he was the only one in the dorms, since it was extremely quiet...
Maybe he would be transferred to a different area tomorrow?
Well, Noa wasn't that good at making friends, preferring a small group of friends rather than a large group.
After all, with a smaller group the chances of being ostracized or left out were much smaller. Not that he was projecting, cause he didn't HAVE any friends. HAHA!
But he read those Reddit stories.
So, Noa would just trust his Protection of the Faith skill, which for now was his most broken non-combat related ability to make some friends. For now, Griselda and Lavinia were perfectly fine.
Noa walked through the marble hallways, pondering, if the Bible said it was bad to be greedy and the accumulation of wealth for it's own sake, then why was this place so luxurious?
The roofs had carvings of stories from the Bible, and Noa thought that was pretty unnecessarily extravagant...
Arriving at the Garden, Noa saw that it was covered with a small layer of snow, creating a feeling of tranquility with the silence. It felt weird hearing silence when they were essentially in the middle of Rome.
Noa stepped on the snow, which curiously didn't cave in, as if Noa weighed less than a feather. This was a combination of Furthest Earth and Jewel of the Earth. If he was a pretty princess, he would start singing about now and twirling around, but Noa wasn't a pretty princess.
Walking around the blanket of snow under the moonlight, Noa was lowkey getting in a philosophical vibe.
In a sense, he was feeling it.
Noa got in a philosophical position, and opened his mouth to speak something... profound.
"Chicken nuggets..."
Noa chuckled at his own joke, dropping to his back and stretching with a light grunt, before exhaling in satisfaction. He closed his eyes in content.
It was these moments where there was no one, nothing supernatural, no responsibilities, that made Noa feel at peace and in the moment. Just him and his breathing. However, after a few seconds, he could hear another person's breath.
...What?
Noa opened his eyes to be face to face with a buxom blonde haired woman with soft green eyes that oozed of acceptance and love. She wore a classic nun's habit but had her hair peeking out. Isn't the hair not supposed to be shown...?
As the sister had bent down, Noa could feel the sister's hair tickling his face, as their faces were rather uncomfortably close to each other.
Noa flinched at the sudden appearance of a sister.
How did he just not notice...?
The sister tilted her head with a curious gaze. "Chicken nuggets...?"
She heard that too?
Noa froze, trying to come up with a random response. "...I like chicken nuggets." Was he fucking retarded?
The sister smiled. "I like chicken as well. They're very tasty." But it seemed the sister was just as retarded as he was. But Noa wanted to see how far the sister would go.
"But I don't like burgers." Well, while Noa didn't go out of his way to get burgers, if it was on his plate he would eat it. Not something he would crave. He wasn't that picky.
But the sister had a sad frown on her face. "Why don't you like burgers...?" It wasn't the fact that Noa didn't like burgers that made her sad, but that he was picky.
Noa gave a small smile. Somehow, Noa's thoughts on the person in front of him was overwhelmingly positive. Even more than Vasco Strada. "Just kidding."
The sister pouted. "That wasn't very nice." She gave a small poke to Noa's forehead.
Noa chortled. "Sorry."
"I forgive you." The sister smiled softly once more. "So, why are you here while it's dark?"
Noa shrugged. "I wasn't sleepy and wanted to look around."
"Me too."
While the two were having some more random small talk, Noa was wondering why the sister was still so close to his face, but the sister interrupted his thoughts.
"I don't know why, but I feel like you're a nice person."
"...Is that so?" It was definitely because of Protection of the Faith.
"Yeah. Your aura makes me feel nice..." The sister explained, getting closer to Noa to the point where their noses touched.
"Is that why you like me?" Noa offhandedly asked. Personally, while Noa was grateful for Protection of the Faith, he didn't really think that having skills that increased affinity created real relationships.
The sister shook her head. "While your aura brought me in, you yourself is what's keeping me here." she gave a reassuring smile. Noa froze at the statement that sliced through the underlying pessimism he had when he discovered the Protection of the Faith could increase affinity.
Noa gave a rare genuine smile. "Thank you. I feel the same."
Now it was the sister's turn to freeze for an instant before smiling back with a small tinge of red on her face. "No problem. You remind me of my Father."
"Must be a great man." Noa joked.
The sister gave a wistful smile. "Yes, he was." Ohhh... that must have hit a bad spot. Noa never had parents to have such feelings, but it wasn't like he was a bitch about it either.
"Sorry about that..."
"For what?"
"...Nothing. So what's your name?" Strategy, change subjects!
"...You can call me Sister Elle. What's yours?"
"Noa."
"Reminds me of someone I once knew."
"Really?
"Really."
Hmm... Well, Noa wasn't going to pry.
The two conversed in that awkward position until Noa eventually got tired.
"Are you sleepy?"
"Yeah..."
Sister Elle rose from her position and extended a hand, which Noa held as she lifted him up.
"Thank you." Noa didn't know why, but somehow being next to this Sister Elle made him mellow as hell... Protection of the Faith only increased affinity, but this didn't seem a part of the Protection's Jurisdiction.
"I enjoyed our conversation, Sister Elle."
"I could say the same, Little Noa." Elle gave a smile and a wave. "Farewell. Maybe we will meet again~."
"Yeah. Thanks for the therapy session." Noa gave a smile and a wave back.
Sister Elle watched fondly as Noa walked away from the garden, her nun's habit turning into motes of light, as she changed into her normal outfit as an Angel.
When she felt her Father's Energy at the Vatican, Gabriel had wondered if they had found someone with a potential to become a Saint, even with her Father's Death, but instead, Gabriel came into interaction with an adorable child who while seemed to be mature for his age, was just a child.
She wanted to be his Guardian Angel so bad...
...How adorable!
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A/N: Here's your damn bonus chapter!
I'll post the actual daily chapter later, but here's your 500 PS Reward! I really didn't think this was possible...
Also. I have a philosophical(?) question. If you were 18 and deaged to a 9 year old, are you mentally 27 when you get back to 18, or is your mentality stagnant, because your experiences would still be expected of your own age?
Cause Noa transmigrated when he was 18, and he doesn't have ANY experience being an adult, and he's only reexperiencing being a child again. I personally think his mentality wouldn't get any older. Also, compared to Gabriel, bro's a fucking baby anyways.
I also realized that in the previous chapter the flaming sword i wrote that the flaming sword WASN'T effective towards Evil races. That was a typo. I wrote that shit at 2 am gimme a break.
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We have Powerstone Goals!!!
I don't have confidence for my first book so doing this for fun.
500 Power Stones in the beginning for an Extra Chapter and then every 300 Power Stones for another chapter after that!
So...
500 PS - Extra Chapter (Complete)
800 PS - Extra Chapter
1100 PS - Extra Chapter
And so on.
Also, comments, powerstones, and reviews are always appreciated.