Orochimaru narrowed his eyes as he saw the Byakugan… Byakugans.
He had already been feeling extreme fascination regarding the Primordial Tower and Multiverse and the Powers one could obtain by just relying on Items, Skills, and Abilities.
At first, he had thought himself enslaved regardless of the nature of the Grimoire and how it gave sentience to a tale. But, after meeting the other Characters from the Book, greed for power had rekindled in his heart.
He had made his peace with his new identity.
No. That would be a false statement.
He actually loved it.
Orochimaru had one goal; a goal he had been pursuing all his life — Immortality!
The Legacy of Immortal Experiment wasn't about Orochimaru whose tale the Grimoire had devoured. It was about him, the Immortal. He had finally achieved it.
As long as Red remained alive, he would remain alive. It was just that simple.
So Orochimaru had been working on his new goal — Immortality! Keep Red alive. At all costs.
The Grimoire didn't need to instill any feeling of loyalty in Orochimaru when it came to Kai.
The Legendary Sannin wouldn't let the Item's owner die now even if Kai wanted to. But, to make sure it didn't happen, he also needed to continuously improve…
… because with a bigger world came even bigger and more ridiculous enemies.
Enemies would surely come, but they would come later.
First, he needed to deal with these children and show them their places.
Orochimaru was different then Petyr. He hadn't spent hundreds of years with Red in some foreign dimension. He couldn't force the man to invest in him, letting him use absurd abilities.
Not to mention, Red had decided to keep him in the shadows.
If it was anyone else but Orochimaru, he would have felt an itch over this. Not him. He knew what it meant to live in the shadows.
— Becoming a Trump Card!
So, even if he didn't want to participate in this fiasco, he needed to prove himself to Red's expectations.
The Bounded Field, in many ways, had become his laboratory. Every interaction and order had become an experiment.
The powers converging in this realm were unlike anything he had ever encountered before.
Mana, Magic Circuits, Wands, digital magical creatures, and eldritch existences… had remained unknown to even the wisest of his past world.
It was intoxicating… especially for Orochimaru when he thought of how many fresh, unexplored things he had to work out with.
Then there were these… Pirates…
Haha! Orochimaru laughed within, but he wasn't mocking their strengths. He was mocking their undeniable belief that they couldn't be brought down. Oh, how wrong were they to think that he hadn't figured them out at one glance? Haha!
Meg, donning Akatsuki robes, thinking of herself as invincible as she stood on the head of Matatabi… like he hadn't ripped open the secrets of the false Tailed Beast's evolution.
He hoped Red wouldn't mind if he pushed back the beast to its One Tail stage temporarily…
Orochimaru didn't even glance at the gigantic King Ghidorah.
His eyes reflected the Digimon and Red Sun. Once he used Rashomon to survive that Angel Arm, the man would be half-dead already.
Then Orochimaru looked at the giant Robot, his snakes already slithering inside it. One thought, and they would kill the man commanding it.
The only two to be careful about on this battlefield were the bronze-armored man and Spawn.
The former was an existence almost similar to him, both in brutality and schemes. Petyr Baelish was a man to watch out for, Orochimaru believed.
Spawn had only one thing about her that made the Legendary Sannin wary of, and it was not Byakugan.
She was a lunatic.
Lunacy and Power had always been a deadly combination.
It's good that I am already creating a Curse Mark to counter her Necroplasmic energy, Orochimaru thought, smiling. Without the endless supply of Chakra, she's just a crazy woman… Humph!
A long tongue slithered out of Orochimaru's mouth, the grin on his face becoming evil.
"What a marvelous stage…" he hissed, triggering the Act.
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Story: The Legacy of Immortal Experiment
Act: Impure World Reincarnation
Grade: C+
Act: Cursed Seal
Grade: B+
]
…
With a whoosh, smoke bubbled up in front of him.
When the smoke parted with a gust of wind, there was a man on the ground, his mouth gagged, fear flashing across his eyes. His hands and legs were tied, too.
Orochimaru's grin widened.
With a thought, a scroll appeared in his right hand.
With another thought, a small, glass tube appeared in his left hand, containing red liquid.
Summoning Jutsu —
Orochimaru crushed the glass tube and smeared the blood over the scroll before slamming it on the ground.
— Impure World Reincarnation!
Sealing marks slithered out of the scroll and surrounded the sacrifice.
The man was screaming like a dying beast, but none were giving him any thought. Meg, Spawn, Red Sun, and the others didn't know whose DNA Kai had gifted Orochimaru.
So when ash and paper began covering the man, and Mana boomed off the reincarnating being, their pupils trembled.
He was an old man.
He was a man who had lived as one of the darkest wizards known to the entire wizarding world and had died as a hero known to none but few.
He was wearing a black overcoat over a black shirt, pants, and shoes. There was no sign of 46 years of imprisonment on him, though. Nor was there any lack of wand.
Gellert Grindelwald gawked at the sight in front of him, disbelieving it in its entirety.
How could it be? He had even given up on remaining in the world through his Inferi magic. Then why was he back? Just what kind of dark magic was this?
Grindelwald lifted his hands and stroked his face, feeling the broken texture.
It was then he noticed the wand in his hand.
It was then he thought of…
Orochimaru approached the reincarnated wizard and planted a kunai, with a talisman attached to its end, in Grindelwald's head, completely erasing his personality.
The Legendary Sannin stared at all of them, standing in Grindelwald's shadow, and…
The stage was set; they were all ready; they could afford to go all out; they wanted to settle it for once and all; today they wanted to have it among themselves, some for fun, some with a deeper motive.
Suddenly, they frowned together.
They looked up toward the White Serpent Tower together, their gaze reaching to the Grand Balcony attached to the Great Throne Hall of the Tower.
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