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Danmachi Chapter 172
🕑 Added 2022-10-25 21:27:00 +0000 UTCComing back to Danmachi was fairly uneventful other than my Familia members getting kicked out of the hotel's morning buffet for overeating... Yeah turns out taking a half dozen gluttons each taking a whole large tin of scrambled eggs and then eating the whole tin in front the disbelieving staff apparently made it perfectly within their right to evict us from the room early.
That and the whole CCG was acting like a beehive being pelted with a water gun and closed down most of Tokyo so I, Hestia, and Freya decided to go back home.
I had a firm no leaving world rule coming from Hestia and the others for at least the next few weeks which to be fair I hadn't been around lately, so I agreed and then was made aware that I also needed to take the Familia into the Dungeon as even the Guild was wondering where the hell the enigmatic Hestia Familia Captain was.
Once we reached Danmachi and the veil of dimensional travel mist we were welcome to shouts of welcome and I blinked in surprise at who was hosting the little party.
"Welcome back guys!" Kanae Kocho's - Shinobu's sister, spoke passionately, and I noticed she was no longer wearing the pure white spirit clothes and was instead wearing clothes similar to Demon Slayer's uniform. Morgan must have already stuffed everyone's souls back into their new homunculus bodies.
Then from the back of the crowd I saw the excited form of Nero launching herself using her Servant Strength into me, making me spin with her momentum as she giggled happily in her mad excitement. "Preator, you left me behind! Don't do that again!" She yelled jabbing my chest with her finger when I managed to bleed off her leap against me.
While Nero was busy scolding me and all the other people, I had resurrected going to meet with their family I saw Morgan and Artoria coming out from the church, and while they met my eyes, they seemed to be conveying a nonverbal message that we needed to talk immediately.
"Alright guys grab all your souvenirs and clean up the teleport spot! I need to go talk to some people." I said as I threw the giggling form of Caster Nero over my shoulder as I followed behind Morgan and Artoria Alter who went inside the church.
Once the other two Servants left the church backyard and led me into one of the church's guests' wings, we added onto the church building itself when we started getting more members. Artoria began to explain why they wanted my attention.
"Jake, the church has been frequented by several deities in the past day that you all been gone... We don't know their objective in coming here, as with how we were obviously outliers to the world with only the spirits and Tamayo and her disciple being around, we didn't answer any of their calls to us." Artoria explained as Morgan frowned and I realized that with Morgan's queenly pride she certainly wouldn't have appreciated sitting in silence as most likely the gods outside heckled our home.
"Did they do anything suspicious, and did you get a name for who was out there?" I asked with Morgan nodding.
"Yes Husband. Of the four deities who arrived outside our holdings. The first was the... Goddess Loki" Morgan explained with her face twitching at calling the Norse deity a goddess. "She practically demanded that you in particular to come out of your hiding place and take Ais under your wing and teach her how to become stronger but and I quote. 'You aren't allowed to seduce my precious Aiz-Tan' or some other drivel." Morgan said snootily as though it was Ais's honor for me to steal her away.
With Morgan taking a moment to clear her maddened thoughts Artoria smoothly took over as she explained the next couple deity's who came by. "The second to come by was a god named Soma who respectfully asked if you had any magical ingredients he could use in his wines and promised to share the wine he creates with said ingredients." Salter explained and I firmly raised my arms up in an X in front of my chest.
"Yeah, nope Soma. is Persona Non-Gratta to the Familia." I said before briefly explaining Lili's past in the Familia of addicts and all three of my Servants nodded to my explanation that me giving special wine materials that would fuck with people despite Soma supposedly cleaning up his Familia.
"The third Deity who arrived was Inari and she along with a set of twin female kitsunes begged for clemency as the whole of Orario has apparently begun ostracizing her Familia with how you had broken them in half and the rest of the gods of Orario weren't sure what game you were playing with the goddess and didn't want to touch your prey." Artoria explained with a wry face as she probably drew upon her memories of being King and saw how awkward the situation must have been.
Now typically even if our Familia was stronger than all the other Familia's they wouldn't give a damn and would take any attempt they could to suppress us, but unlike the Hera and Zues Familia's that ruled Orario through sheer strength.
We had Orario's balls in a vice as we had been selling off diluted super elixir potions that explicitly restored lost limbs which only with the greatest of 'normal' elixir's made by Gods who skirted the no Arcanemum rule was able to do so, and we sold dozens of them a day rather than one every few months like Miach and Dian Chet could.
Because here in Orario without plot armor getting hurt in the dungeon was a state of face and lost limbs were only uncommon, because the people who did lose a limb in dungeon, typically bled out or died before they could get back to the surface and get actual medical attention.
"I will... Talk to Hestia and Freya about Inari." I said frowning as I recalled the memories of that little rampage I went on when they got the bright idea of taking Haruhime away from me. Didn't matter if Inari offered herself and even her Familia of other kitsunes up for my use. Haruhime was besides Hestia, my favorite lover plain and simple.
"Ahem, I will finish off the debriefing." Morgan said as she shifted our attention to her and Artoria merely rolled her eyes as the Queen of the Fae propped up her breasts beneath her exposing dress to even further grab my 'attention'
"The final deity to arrive was Hermes, who wanted to coordinate with our Familia to follow up with Loki Familia's expedition into the lower floors of the dungeon." Morgan explained primly and I realized a major canon event will be coming to pass as the Loki Familia went deeper into the Dungeon and dealt with that weird, corrupted Spirit and begin to unravel that weirdo Enyo's plans.
Idly I wondered if I should just go at this moment and challenge the real identity behind Enyo which was the twisted god Dionysus to rating game with Ouranos being the weight to force the god to speak truthfully as to his newfound identity after I beat his little Familia of Stockholm'd pets.
"Alright." I said as Nero practically fell asleep against my back, while the other two royal servants explained what had recently happened. "The Loki Familia expedition into the deeper floors isn't for another three days, correct?" I questioned and once they nodded, I bit my lip as I ran my itinerary in my head and realized this big expedition with the Loki Familia would fit for an expedition into the dungeon with my Familia plus with all the ghouls, I killed in Tokyo Ghoul my stats were filled out and I was ready to hit Level 6 today.
Other than Inari's little begging for mercy I had little interest in, the other two gods' requests will be filled out with my Familia following alongside the Loki Familia as I would be Level 6, Bell would be a high level 5 with Lili being a level four alongside Haruhime and the rest of the Demon Slayers will be ready to hit level two after our adventures, so they won't be deadweight or anything with their elemental breathing styles.
"Huh I just realized I will have caught up to Aiz's level next time I see her." I muttered as even with the time dilations between worlds I had jumped to and from... In the end I had only taken less than five months to go from just getting my Falna to getting to Level 6. Makes the decades that Riveria and the other executives spent doing just that absolutely pathetic in contrast, doesn't it?
But once we gone on a week's long expedition with the Familia, they will quickly find out that after the trip they had exploded with stats as my daily quest skill will count them all as my party members...
"Morgan. What's your thoughts on Riveria?" I asked as I came to a bit of a conclusion that the vast majority of my women were 'royals' or people of great lineages except for Lili basically.
"The princess of the largest elvish nation?" Morgan mused before she continued. "She certainly has the poise of royalty and would make a fine Queen once she adopts a more ruthless mindset as she coddles her Familia members too much from what I had gathered." She spoke aloud before she met my gaze and saw my question wasn't merely about her personality.
"Ah you wish to bed or take her as a concubine, my husband?' She asked coyly as she leaned forward and pressed her soft chest agaisnt me as she whispered before withdrawing. "I myself, and not even Hestia will discourage you, As for one I adore the idea of you baby trapping the haughty elf in your clutches and taking her lands from her without a drop of blood being spilt besides from her hymen." She said leaning away before smiled deviously. "Hestia would revel in her Greek depravity merely at the sight of you stealing Loki's probably second most prized gem of her Familia as well."
"Ahem! I will do no such thing!" Hestia yelled as she threw open the door, she was obviously eavesdropping in through despite her being able to easily hear our every word through the damned wards we had up surrounding the church.
"Hestia!" I said excitedly to break the staring contest between my goddess and the Queen of the Fae Lostbelt. "Update my Falna so I can once again break the record and we will rub Loki's face in, at the sight of me reaching level six." I said to distract her and the thought of haughtily laughing in Loki's despairing face at my insane speed of advancement made Hestia literally forget Morgan existed as she pushed Nero off my back without care sending the napping emperor's body to collide with the bed I was sitting on.
