Simple man with his Chapter 17: The sands and the star people

Chapter 17: The sands and the star people

The next day, Lud had a small hangover and couldn’t fully go back to things as usual. Nevertheless, he assigned a eting where every battalion commander and so others would gather at a eting hall.

Once everyone had gathered, Lud started by saying "Thank you all for coming today. I... must sincerely apologize for my actions these past few days. I’ll make sure that everything will be as usual after I recover from this... Um..." And Illi said "Hangover. The word you are looking for is hangover. You are holding up surprisingly well given how wasted you got yesterday. I take it you aren’t much of a drinker."

Lud chuckled nervously and said "That’s right. Back when I... was alive in... my original world... Ahem! Back when I was in my original world, I didn’t often have the luxury to drink as all my money went to making sure my brother would live as long as possible. But enough about that, we must discuss what happened four days ago. The abyssal banshee."

Li says "That thing. We didn’t even get to make a scratch on her." And Xu says "Indeed. She even shrugged off poor Bai’s killer moves and took over for a mont."

Lud asks "How is she, by the way?" To which Xu answers "She had so of her image shaken, but she is still holding her head high as usual. Though she was crying to

about the jacket and how Li is going to be mad at her. How is the jacket coming along Li?" And Li answers "I’m almost finished. The materials we have are little lacking, but that’s not sothing little ana can’t fix."

Then Lud says "I see. But back on topic, now that we have seen that there are more powerful beings in this world that can hurt us, we must find a way to improve ourselves. Or at very least, find a way to fight back." Then Maumar’s head just pops to existence in the middle of the table saying "I think you don’t have to worry too much about that." This shocked Illi, Lych, Elisia, Sarah and Lud to the point of them almost falling off their chairs.

Lud shouts "Why are you...! But then his head begins to hurt and stops shouting. Then he says in a normal voice "Why are you here? In fact, can you stop just appearing out of nowhere." To this, Maumar says "So it is the presentation that you are looking for. In that case, wait just a mont." Then, like it appeared, the head disappeared.

There was a small mont of silence, until they started to hear music coming from the hallway as if soone was blasting it on stereo. The music consisted of a few string instrunts as well as an organ and a flute. The music was coming closer, until Maumar appeared to phase through the door like a ghost while holding a handheld stereo like a ghost.

Lud wanted to shout, but his head was hurting, but he also couldn’t deal with the music, so he ended up trying to shout "Can you...!" But Maumar shut the stereo off before Lud could finish what he was saying. As he was shutting it down, he sat in the middle of the table like it was the most normal thing to do.

Lud asked "Did... did you just co here... with your own the music?" To which Maumar said "You asked for

to present myself first, so I used one of Copelius’ music pieces that he made for every god back in the day."

Li says "Copelius was... the god of music if I recall." To which Maumar says "You recall correctly."

Lili asks "Did he make a the music for every god?" To which Maumar answered with a "Yes. He has made music for all kinds of things that gave him the mood. Sumr. Life. Nature. Jogging. Love. Ice cream. War. Ham. Death. Fishing. Peace. Grass. Ti. Broccoli. I can go on if you want more, but I suppose that your ti is precious, so I leave it there."

Everyone has to gather themselves for a mont, and before anyone says anything, Maumar says "So about the situation four days ago. You shouldn’t worry about anyone that strong ever appearing here." Elisia asks "Why are you so certain?" To which Maumar says "Because her appearance was a slip up that I didn’t think was possible. Now that I know this thing can happen, I’ve made extra asures to make sure that any of my miscarriages won’t co back from the taphorical shoot. Or would the word abortion work better in this instance."

Illi asks "But aren’t you a guy? How can you have any of that?" To which Maumar says "The thod of reproduction is sothing that shouldn’t exist for gods. And as I am a forr god,

reproducing would an I break the thresher hold that makes it impossible. But to answer your question more directly, there isn’t a straight thod of making one’s own child when it cos to gods, hence I have to find thods different for the child to be realized. And as for the taphor of

being the child carrier, the abyss is what remains of my physical being and in that abyss, I nurture those children that may have a chance of being born both from, not only my body, but from my real being. Abyssal creatures are just one or the other, but never both. For both to be present, there must be an interdiary, hence, a soul from the outside. Hence cases like Aileen Freigner."

Lych asks "Then what are we seeing right now? A ghost?" To which Maumar says "Most accurate description that I can think of is "Maumar’s Willpower Manifest