Nanoka was right. Even for the next day, she was right about no new kids. How long that will last, I don't know. But with the number of won I have pregnant, one will be coming up soon. Calli or Elora are likely, if not Annoris or Esiyae. Then Shyla...
'The main Goddess temple is going to pick you up,' Space sends to my mind. 'Don't leave my temple till Geta is here. She should be here shortly. The main temple is a bunch of asses that would love to lick the toes of the elder Goddesses who care about that temple. Don't worry too much about them. They aren't anything special. The temple exists mainly to keep the elder Goddesses content. Don't let the priestesses bully you. You have more support behind you than they do. You have the support of Sea, Death, and Hearth, while Future doesn't care. Nature is spending too much power on her army to do anything inside the temple. War is hard to tell what she thinks, but killing you ends the war. Sure, there are a few that would care about the disrespect, but they know they can't really do anything to you.'
'Ok,' I think back. Tanatsu isn't going to like this. But I owe this to Sarania and her Mother. It sounds like she may be getting tortured for longer than Fertility was. These priestesses don't sound like they are the greatest won to be around.
"We need to wait a bit," I say. "My request to et with the ones holding your Sister, Sarania, is coming by. We need to wait for Geta before we go outside."
"They'd better let her go," Sarania says.
"They'll figure it out," I say. "Do you happen to have a dress that will fit ? I think showing off my tattoos would be smart. Apparently, these priestesses are prideful."
"Sorry, my Mistress," Sarania says. "I don't. Not with your pregnancy. Sorry. Our wings are a bit too different. Only my overly skimpy outfits will fit you."
"That would be too far," I say. It's probably best to trust a succubus when they say it's too skimpy. Only my shadow shows more skin than hers. I need to be respectful. I am asking the stupid priestesses for sothing.
"I'm ready," Geta says. "Nanoka filled in."
"Can you just claim Death asked her to be free?" I ask.
"No, Death isn't really part of the main temple, so they won't release her just for . But it will make it hard for them to say no, unless another Goddess says sothing," Geta says.
"Nature."
"Yes."
Nothing can ever be easy. "Will I get to talk to the other Goddesses there, if needed? Offering so pregnancies should speed things up."
"Maybe. Death doesn't care about the main temple much."
"Well, then I guess we can go find out about the temple," I say, starting back towards the door.
Through the great doors is a single woman in pure white, if you ignore the golden emblems sewn into her flowing robes. Which I probably shouldn't when the biggest out of the bunch is a tree. I'm not great with my symbols of Goddesses, they all have too many of them after all, but if that isn't Nature's, I don't know whose it would be.
"Hello, champion Alzi, I've been asked to take you to our temple," the Priestess says.
"Yes," I say. Does she not get outside often? She's blinking quite a lot for soone who should be 'one with nature.'
'Remind her who gives her the ability to move around in space.'
"Space told to remind you who gives you the ability to take to your temple," I say.
"Yes," the Priestess says through her forced smile. "Thank you, Goddess of Space."
This ti, we teleport, and more than just I co along for the ride. I'm guessing it was supposed to be just based on all the sharp objects pointing at us right now.
"The Goddesses demanded and made it," the Priestess huffs. The swords and spears relax and slowly retreat from my group as the priestess starts moving through the hall.
"I didn't know you all respected Death so much," Geta says. "Wanting to be taken to her after just a glimpse of ."
"This way. We can start the talks," the Priestess says, ignoring the Valkyrie of Death. Nature really is a bitch.
The entire group ca through, Sarania, my Shadow, and Geta. Shyla is busy helping her Mother with her sisters. I'll need to get used to not having her around for a bit. She's going to be going into labor more than once, most likely. I've gotten used to taking a peek into her womb, and the kids are all at different stages, so I hope they don't all go together. While I would love to hold them, I don't have the ti to keep them all alive right now. I would figure it out, I hope, but I would rather not have that stress. I'd have to give sothing up for it.
The Priestess takes us through a number of halls that would make even giants feel small. The walls were all covered with paintings frad in gold. Not an inch of the space is left undecorated. She led us to a normal-sized room, at least. Makes wonder if Space is doing more here than just helping them teleport. Could I bully them instead?
"Now, I was told you wished to make a request," the priestess says.
"I've been inford you are holding Sarania's sister here for no reason," I say. "Goddesses stopped her punishnt years ago, yet you still have her. That needs to end."
"No. Is there anything else you wish to talk about?"
"Killing you all, then?" Geta says. "Death never told how strong a connection she had with you all. She always acted like this was just a fun show to look at here and there. To think she was hiding just staunch supporters from ."
"The jokes aren't funny," the priestess says. "Death wants nothing to do with us."
"Yet you all keep asking for her to co."
"The succubus is dangerous," the priestess says. "She's insane. Multiple tis, she drained a village's worth of n dry. No, she is where she needs to be. That is it."
Nothing can be easy. Nothing simple. I just have to run into a woman who wants to fuck over. Why would that matter? Bitches are so pissed off about soone else milking the n instead of them.
"Didn't ask," I say. "I'm taking her with . I don't care that you love working for a woman who loves to rape people. You act like the succubus is dangerous, yet here you are supporting a woman who loves rape. Nature is the danger to the world, not a succubus that is going to be in my hands. We know she'll need help from your temple's abuse. She'll do much less damage than your Goddess has done. Don't worry. She won't need to do anything like that if she wants a kid still. Though I'm sure with Nature's skills of rape and torture, she'll need to have plenty of recovery ti before she cares about a kid. Fertility is still getting over her capture, and I'm struggling with my own."
"No, her punishnt has not been stopped," the priestess says. "Just lowered the level of punishnt. Don't make such mistakes."
"I have to see her at least and make sure she is alright at least, and I need to have more than one priestess tell that she can't be freed. I don't believe soone backed by your Goddess. Not when I have so many more behind and no one told this is a bad idea. Makes it feel like you and your Goddess are the problem."
The priestess doesn't react much to my request. She does let more of her breasts show for so reason. She isn't my size, still, so what she is hoping for, I don't know. Geta and Sarania can beat her easily as well. Her only power is the emblems on her robe.
"I can let you see her. But you have to keep your distance."
"If I don't check on her, I can hardly count this as fulfilling my request," I say.
"You'll be able to see from a distance that she is alive. We keep her on good display."
"I'm sure," I say.
*** Malralloz ***
Progress is being made, but it ans I'll have to fight the Goddesses again. Not that Sex and Nature are powerful. Nature is burning most of her extra divine power in the war, and Sex hardly ever has any. It'll be good to have a Goddess's blood spill again.
Maybe it'll open a path for a few new Goddesses to co here, and maybe Sarania can get promoted to a divine being as well, that loyal little girl.
"Hello," Future calls out.
"What do you want?"
"Sa as you," Future says. "Family. You have kids, sohow, sothing that annoys so of us a bit more than it should, but you have no equals. I'm missing my sisters. Nothing to ground in the now or let feel the past. All I do is move forward. The present is all that is real, yet so fleeting as mortals like to say. Yet, the present doesn't exist. Not to . Us. The world only has a future."
"A sentence to say you want a few more goddesses to be around doesn't explain anything about why you are here."
"You moved into . I was already here before you stumbled into the clearing."
"I wonder why," I say. "Maybe you saw the future and placed yourself in my way. So, you wanted to see . Why? You know, the question I asked."
"I told you, family."
"You have family."
"I want more just as you want more. We are sisters, are we not?" Future says, slowly moving towards . "You wish for another sister. For all of us old won to have another sister." Check latest chapters at novel·fire·net
I let her take another step before I slash out with my sword. I catch nothing but air, obviously. Future isn't really a Goddess you can kill. She'll just causally lead you to your death as she avoids everything. If she's getting to attack, it must be for a reason.
"My paths where I get my sisters are drying up," Future says. "You are the best chance for . Us. You wish to get the world to birth more life, and I want that as well. There are paths for to birth past, but the present must co from the world. For that, I need Alzi alive and well. But I can't be too seen."
"Call your sister, yet all of you hunt down."
"You would be dead if I or death hunted you. The possibilities of you living would slowly be culled till Death took you. We are sisters, our only parent being the world. I wish to help Alzi. How is this bad for you?"
"I don't know," I say. "But can I trust you? Once you have your sisters, you made it very clear you could just kill ."
"There's no need to guess second. Just act. I wish you no harm. We'll both walk away with what we want. Aim for my neck," Future says.
Now I have to choice to believe her. Either I attack or I run, and I don't know which one she saw going her way.
If she thinks she can, then so be it. Worst case, I end the future of the world. People can live without the past; then they can do without the future as well.
I leap forward and swing. Future never pulls out a sword. No, she can just dance, stumble, jump, and whatever else she decides to do to dodge my blade. Not that our duel last for long. Fifteen strikes or so, and she disappears.
"Rember I helped you," echoes through the forest. I guess this ans Space is working with Future.
I move towards the tree that always managed to be on the far side of my blade and look for the ssage. Talking with didn't provide with anything, so there has to be sothing of value etched into the bark.
"You fucking bitch. You think I'm going to get them to walk into this? You Goddesses are a bunch of asshole."
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