Chapter 126

Astrea was pretty easy to get along with as she had a bit of the same manic energy that Hestia did and was very obviously a bit lonely after she lost her Familia though with Ryuu coming back to her, she wasn't going to be alone anymore even if I wished Ryuu directly joined the Hestia Familia.

But she loves and respect's her goddess deeply which I understand as I would laugh in the face of anyone who asked me to leave Hestia's Familia...

'Actually, how would Hestia react if someone legitimately attempted to poach me through a war game?' I thought and my mind was filled with images of Orario being lit on fire as Hestia flipped her shit at that.

"Meh... There isn't any Familia's that can actually challenge the Hestia Familia." I muttered as I got a new drink.

Yeah, it turns out that when you are four or five times the strength of cannon characters at certain times, baddies just don't pop up to give you problems like Apollo would have though Inari was an exception who wanted to try manipulating us and I just answered with brute force and likely with her Familia being out of commission for a few years, that will keep any other back stabbers from trying anything.

"Jake come over here!" Hestia called over and I saw her sitting at a table with the deities she invited and their captains.

"You already met Miach and Takemikazuchi last time, and you certainly know Hephaestus now..." Hestia groused rolling her eyes as the forge goddess blushed lightly at what Hestia was insinuating and buried her face into her drink to avoid people looking at her.

"But we wanted you to come gets more familiar with Take's captain Ouka, Miach's Naaza, and Hephaestus's Tsubaki." All three captains made there little greetings with Ouka giving me a strong handshake in greeting, Naaza tiredly waved, and Tsubaki just wrapped her arm over my shoulder.

"Heh Jake you sly dog, No need to worry about us not being familiar with one another." At that Hestia gave a look that clearly said 'what the fuck dude... already?' But then Tsubaki kept talking after that couple second pause. "Yeah with how he porked my goddess and got her preggers and had all her work dumped onto me... Yeah Jake we are going to be just great friends..." She said brightly but her words hid her steel grip she attempted to punish me with Hephaestus dumping all her work on the captain as the two gods in attendance froze hearing another goddess got pregnant.

Miach soon got over his surprise and smiled shaking his head. "Jake you best be careful, although many deities have some form of marriage and are often not faithful on either side, it would be best to not get between certain deities like Parvati and Shiva." Even Hestia frowned hearing the name Shiva.

"I will do my best then..." I said dryly but deep down I knew it was possible I may sleep with the wrong goddess at some point especially if Hestia wants to bully them in bed.

"Isn't Shiva one of the gods who can't use their Arcanum due to his strength?" I asked as it was honestly confusing at some points like how love deities could charm people into their slaves and the likes of magic gods could use magic basically willy nilly and that's the reason I haven't tried to interact with them with how their Arcanum bindings were basically nonexistent, not to mention with how Hephaestus although couldn't forge divine tools with her Arcanum being sealed was perfectly able to use her divine forge flames to help her forge stuff.

"Yes, if Shiva wanted to, he could fairly easily destroy Genkai as he helped Ouranos and Gaia in the creation of the lower world as he was in charge of the worlds various more esoteric laws and Ouranos and Gaia were charge of the Sky and Earth laws respectfully." Takemikazuchi explained frowning his Shinto Pantheon was right next to the Hindu Pantheon in Tenkai and it was only the strong unity the Pantheon had to outsider's and the Hindu's constant in fighting that kept the Hindus from assimilating them apparently.

"Ok sooo what does Parvati look like so I can avoid her?" I asked bluntly... Honestly cucking a god of creation and destruction seems like a quick way to earn oblivion if I was lucky and didnt end up in some terrible eternity of torture.

Miach and Takemikazuchi both waved their hands with smiles hearing my words of wanting to treat Parvati as something to run away from with Miach answering. "You don't have to worry as Shiva and Parvati are always traveling together and they don't even have a Familia as they never bothered to stop their wanderings."

'Not the answer I wanted pretty boy!' I mentally groused.

"Well on a lighter topic. Jake I heard you got a teleportation system setup to both Rivira and the safe zone after the Water City. Could the members of my Familia use your teleporter to Rivira?" Takemikazuchi asked respectfully with Ouka perking up hearing how they wouldn't need to walk fifteen floors to get to where they were basically always fighting.

I shrugged and waved. "The teleporter to Rivira is a bit special and needs a onetime blood sacrifice to it and bind the person it and then they can use it whenever honestly." I explained

I didnt care if Hestia's friends used the teleporter's so long as they were ready for the floors themselves as I knew Takemikazuchi's Familia was in no way ready for the floors past Rivira but could fairly easily work together to kill the monster's wandering onto the floor Rivira was on and make great progress in comparison to dealing with the monster parties that were common on the floors before Rivira.

"Then in that case we are your debt!" Takemikazuchi smiled with Ouka bowing to me in saving the Familia several hours a day in their transportation.