Denatus (Part 2)

The grand hall in Babel floating above the halls. The place where the Denatus was held. Marble pillars, lush greenery, a fountain in the middle along with fancy and comfortable chairs around.

"Why is Loki the chair?"

Grumbled a beautiful and petite goddess with a youthful appearance. She has blue eyes and mid-thigh length black hair tied into twin-tails which reach down to her mid-thighs.

Her hair is tied with hair accessories that feature blue and white petals along with bell-shaped ornaments. She has a small frame (4' 7"), which further emphasizes her breasts, hence the nickname "Loli Big-boobs."

"I heard she volunteered. Most of her Familia members are out of expedition so she's pretty bored."

Calmly replied with a red-haired goddess with an eyepatch over her right eye to Hestia as if she was telling a newcomer.

'Phae-tan... and that brat's really here. She's really conceited.'

Loki inwardly thought seeing the figure of Hestia.

'That doesn't matter though. Right now, I have other things to do.'

She had been surprised to see Hestia was there but she didn't care since she had other things to attend.

"Alright, first let's exchange information."

A series of trifling matters. Various deities chiming in here and there about the ordinary series of events.

"Does anyone have interesting to report?"

Loki enthusiastically questioned made the atmosphere very lively as several gods raised their hands.

"Me! I heard Soma-kun got a warning from the guild and got his only hobby taken away from him."

"A-are you serious!?"

"So what's his hobby anyway?"

"I don't know."

"I heard he's curled up himself in a corner! I'd love to see that."

"I think I'll go cheer him up."

"You're just going over to rub the salt in his wound aren't you?"

"This may be sudden but I heard Rakia's planning on invading again."

"That really is sudden."

Although it was meant to be a meeting about formal affairs, as expected for gods that descended to the lower realms for their interest. Looking at the atmosphere, Hestia was shocked that the Denatus of the gods was like this.

"I expected something like this to happen, but this is rough."

"It's the usual."

Hephaestus calmly replied to Hestia.

"I forgot that you only descended recently."

As the gods were getting noiser and louder, a clap of Loki got all of their attention.

"All right, quiet down."

Loki casually swept her gaze around the area and continued.

"To summarize, what we need to be concerned right now is Rakia. I'll inform the guild about it and your Familias might be called to fight so be prepared."

Usually, the atmosphere for each Denatus was lively. Through formally a proper meeting to discuss Orario's on-goings, it was truthfully a casual get together to brag about their children.

"Can I say something too?"

Hearing the tone of Loki, some of the deities were no longer relaxed.

"A new and weird monster has been popping these days. It appeared at the Monster Feria and a safety point in the dungeon."

Of course, today was different. Saying those words, Loki thought in her mind at the same time.

'This is why I volunteered to chair today. The remnants of evilus are acting up which means some gods must be giving them a falna.'

"They're richly colored like someone has dumped paint all over them. They're as strong as second class adventurers and appear in various places. They'll appear anywhere including the city and the dungeon."

Tense expression on some of the gods present. Loki's gaze of suspicion was cast all around.

'That deity will probably be here considering power and information gatherers are here. A strange reaction should be enough.'

"The remnants of Evilus have been acting lately or so I've heard. You should be careful."

"Oh dear."

"How scary."

Hearing Loki's warning, several goddesses murmurs to themselves. 'I guess this isn't enough to get them show themselves. Regardless not all gods are the same.'

Loki thought in her mind looking at the totally confused reaction of Hestia who was oblivious to what Loki was saying. Unlike the murmuring gods that wanted for more explanation, a god with black hair and black-red eyes immediately understood what Loki was saying.

'So you're saying there was a traitor among the deities of Orario.'

Kronos, a former king of the gods saw through everything what Loki meant in an instant. As a powerful transcendent being among the deities, he had an insight surpassing the gods even his arcanum was sealed.

Even though Loki, the tricksters of the gods was still on the middle of investigations of finding who that traitor was, Kronos who once ruled the gods immediately saw it all in an instant.

'Ishtar huh.'

His eyes gazed at the seductive dark-skinned goddess of beauty who was occasionally glaring at Freya.

Considering the grudge Ishtar had against Freya. Based on what he had saw, Ishtar is quite prideful and believes herself to be the most beautiful woman. Due to it, and others constant claims of Freya's superiority over her, she saw Freya as her rival and was jealous of her in extreme, constantly plotting to dethrone her and replace her at the top of Orario.

She is a very cold-hearted individual who seems to don't care of others, so Kronos knew that what Loki was saying was one of the plan of Ishtar in order to defeat Freya and take her place.

'Well there's no way I'm telling them that.'

Kronos amusingly thought in his mind. For him, it would only be boring if he would immediately provide that to Loki who seems doing something interesting for him. As someone who had higher status than the gods in this place, the desire of Kronos to seek for entertainment was greater than most deities in Orario.

'Well its just a matter of TIME anyway.'

Kronos sighed and close his eyes, ignoring the gaze of a deity who wears a feathered hat. Hermes primarily appears as a handsome, youthful young man, between the ages of 17-20 years old, with blonde hair, pale ivory skin and pale orange eyes.

'That reaction...as expected, Lord Kronos had already seen it all.'

Hermes, the God of Messengers or the Messenger of Gods thought with amazement. As an Olympian God, he is one of the deities that knows the greatness of Kronos.

'Also, he wasn't even fazed even with the presences of the two goddesses of beauty.'

On the other hand, he is a pervert who enjoys spying on beautiful women bathing and shares Zeus's beliefs that doing so is a man's duty just as having a harem is every man's dream.

"First off..."

A muscular man that wears a red and yellow elephant mask over his face stepped up. He wears an orange sash that goes over his right shoulder and wraps around his waist. A gold rimmed leather plate sits on his stomach, holding the garb together. He also sports white pants with dark brown under the knee boots - also with gold accents.

"I am Ganesha!"

Loudly yelling, he meet the gazes of every deities present and bowed his head.

"Okay sit down."

Loki nonchalantly said not surprised at Ganesha at all.

"Sorry I made a mistake! Let me apologize first. I'm sorry for the mess that we caused at the monster feria the other day."

Ganesha continued to yell loudly while flexing his muscles to the deities.

"Nevertheless, I swear in my own name that we weren't the ones who captured those man eating flowers! Please trust me!"

He then slammed his hands on the table as he spoke to Loki.

"Can I say more?"

"Oh, all right. Just hurry up."

"On the same floor that those man eating flowers rampaged on, one of my familia members was murdered. I don't know if it has something to do with the Monster Felia but I want to avenge him."

Ganesha then bowed his head to all the deities.

"Please tell me if you know anything."

Some goddesses looks at Ganesha with pity as they know the feeling of losing a child.

"Kuk...Hashana...why...why did you..."

They wanted to say something to comfort Ganesha who was now having his tears flowing that could be seen in his elephant mask but their expression immediately changed when they heard the next words of Ganesha.

"Why did you die while having sex!? I'm so jealous that you were seduced and killed by a hot and busty woman!"

"I mean how disgraceful! Why didn't you trade places with me?"

"Hashana didn't die during sex."

"Huh?"

Ganesha swiftly turned his head at Loki's nonchalant attitude. Loki sighed.

'How can you be so upfront? Nonetheless, the moods taken a turn for the better. This should make the small and medium sized Familias that this is too much for them to handle based on how the Loki Familia took an interest to it and how the Ganesha Familia mourned and pleaded.'

"Does anyone else have something to say?"

'Those who don't have anything to do won't stick their noses to it and at the same time the evilus' movement should become more obvious and it should slow them down.'

Hiding her expression with her hand, Loki revealed a grin of the tricker as she thought.

'Thanks, Ganesha. Your words will keep them in check.'

"Well then, let's move on to the naming ceremony."

Hearing Loki's words, the eyes of the gods lit up with brilliant light as their purpose in coming in Denatus had come.

"You've all received the relevant information right? Let's start already."

"First off is...an adventurer named Seti from the Set Familia."

"P-please, please go easy on me."

The head of the Set Familia, Set pleaded to all of the gods to give his child a proper name and at the same time, all the gods bluntly rejected him with enthusiasm.

"I refuse!"

"Nooo-ooo!"

The naming ceremony. Aliases such as Sword Princess are officially decided on this ceremony. With the official start of the ceremony, Kronos amusingly thought with a little grin.

"I wonder what Alias they would give to Alex. Also I look forward to their envy if they would know his feats, kufufufu."