Interlude

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Finally, this quest is over! Scathach and I had defeated Cuchulain, and killed him. Permanently. After which, Scathach had left with the Tuatha de Danaan, the Celtic Gods, taking the sword of Neit, the Celtic War God, with them.

Which left me, to deliver the other weapons to their pantheons. I'd first dropped Ares's sword at Olympus, and then the bow, Pinaka, to Lord Shiva himself. Thankfully, mother came with me, in her Aditi Avatar, so the transaction went smoothly.

I was not as nervous as I expected myself to be, mostly because I'd come to deal with it in these years. At first, the Gods were a novelty, something to pray to, something to revere. But then, when you live with the Goddess Aditi/Gaea/Jord/Izanami/Danu herself, you can only worship the other Gods for so long.

Plus, these 3 years that I've been on this quest did help me in being ready, for my eventual meeting with these Gods.

And just now, I'd come from delivering the Third Eye of Horus, the God of Sky, and the husband of Hathor, the Goddess of Pleasure, to Ammon-Ra.

Sighing, I settle down on the comfortable recliner chair I'd conjured for myself, and turn to my mother, who was also sitting on a similar chair. Looking at her, I ask, "Did you learn anything about my weapon? From Hephaesthus?"

Rolling her eyes, mother says, "Patience, my son. Making of Divine weapons is not an easy task." Pausing, she mumbles, "Unless you're a Dwarf, or Cyclops, that is."

Well, that's a bummer. I thought it would have been ready in these years.

"As a matter of fact, he hasn't even begun yet." Mother adds, making me snap my head towards her.

"What?! He hasn't even begun? What the hell was he doing then?" I ask, indignant, but not getting up from my comfortable position.

God or not, I don't like to leave a position once I'm comfortable enough.

Chuckling, mother says, "Be patient, Theos. He's the Weapon Maker of the entire Olympus. You don't just demand anything of him, you request it." Looking at me disbelieving face, she adds, "Don't worry, I well inform you once he starts working on it."

I nod, accepting the explanation. He has to have other blacksmiths under him, doesn't he? I mean, not to make my weapon, Queen no. He can give them the smaller tasks.

Sighing, I go back to reading the book mother had given me. It detailed the travels of Oshtur, when she left the planet. And I have to say, Aunty Oshtur knew how to have fun. I'd expected her to be as boring as Agamotto, but now I wonder where he got his boring genes from.

She, just like my mother Madonna, travelled under the guise of a Mortal. So, that includes traveling through ships, joining parties, and oh my Queen! She was part of Orgies?! Multiple?!

Fuck! Let's just hope Agamotto never reads this book.

"Oh, he's already read it dear. He was.. upset.. a lot. Just.. beware. One of the future chapters is very.. descriptive." Mother says, indirectly telling me that I'm still not cured of my 'Don't know when I talk aloud' disease.

"Spoilers, mother!" I mumble, eyes wide, reading through Oshtur's description of a woman she was really fond of.

Turns out, a lot had happened while I was on the road. Cuchulain hadn't just injured minor Gods, no. He'd also killed a Major God. And the God he killed, was someone who really shouldn't have died.

Baldur Odinson. The brother of Thor, and the God of Sun.

And that really explained why a mortal turned God was so strong. You can't just kill a God, an Odinson at that, and stay normal. You absorb a little bit of the Divine essence, for every God you kill.

When Cuchulain first killed a God, he was probably just a step over Demigod strength, with higher amount of Divinity in him. And then he killed some more Minor Gods, which had a lot of increases in his strength, bringing him up in the power scale.

But then, just last year, the dumbass went and killed Baldur, using a Mistletoe arrow, fired through Pinaka, and while staying invisible. While he didn't die immediately, Cuchulain did somehow break the spell, and then kill Baldur with his bare hands, absorbing a bit of Baldur's Divine Essence, but obviously not all of it.

Which is why he was able to go toe to toe with me, and also injure Scathach for a while.

Sigh, that isn't even the worst part. He killed Baldur! Baldur! You know, the one God who's death triggers the beginning of Ragnarok?! Fucking idiot.

Thankfully, nothing has happened, yet, since Loki is still in prison, and hasn't tried to bring any army to Asgard, or to even attack any other Realm. But, any day now, Ragnarok will begin. Let's just hope the day is too far away.

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With nothing else to do, I returned mother's swords to her, transmutated two Adamantine swords for myself, and left to travel the world again. That was 3 days ago, and I'd only just begun with traveling the island of Nipon.

The Gods here are called the Amatsu-Kami, and just like every other Pantheon out there, they too can't keep it in their pants. So, to satiate their libido, they frequently travel to Earth, from their Native Dimension of Ama, and.. procreate.

Wow, look at me, using big words.

Back to the Amatsu-Kami, mother is known to them as Izanami, or Izanami-no-Mikoto, but they don't know it. What I mean, is that they don't consider Izanami, and my mother to be the same person, and consider Izanami as missing.

Yeah, I have no idea why that is. But, Mother also does not care much, as she completely cut contact from them after the birth of her son, Kagatsuchi, burned her Izanami Avatar, and killed her.

Anyway, the Pantheon is going strong, and there were no current threats to them. What I was here for, is to scratch it of my bucket list.

What? It's Japan! Who doesn't want to come here? Let alone a low level weeb like me.

So, yeah. I was sitting in a Divine Bar, in a seiza, because I'm not ignorant, chatting up the Demigoddess daughter of Susanoo who was sitting in front of me, when I felt her.

Turning away from the flirting Demigoddess, I raised an eyebrow, looking at Scathach walk into the bar, scowling at the mortals, and ask, "What's got your panties in a twist, Scathach?"

Turning her scowl to me, she stomps over, and pushes the Demigoddess away from me.

"Hey!" the mortal, who's name I never even bothered asking, yelps, indignantly.

Scathach simply ignores her, and sits in the newly vacated seat, shooing the mortal away, and like a savage, she crosses her legs, instead of sitting with her legs under her.

Without any small talk, she says, "I need your help with cleansing Gae Bolg."

Snorting, I ask, "What do I look like? A witch?"

Scathach takes the bottle of Sake from my hands, and says, "I know Gaea taught you to use Magic. Now, cleanse Gae Bolg, and I'll owe you a favour."

Sighing, I swipe the bottle back, and say, "I apologize, Scathach. But, while I am proficient in using my Magic, I can't say the same for everything else. I know a few things, but unfortunately, cleansing stuff is not one of them, let alone a Divine Weapon."

Scathach looks at me, and just keeps staring. Finally, after a minute of intense staring, she groans, and bangs her head on the table.

Looking up from the cracked table, she asks, "So I just wasted my trip in coming here? Damn it! I should have gone to Gaea directly!"

"Yup, you should have. Or Agamotto. Both are good enough in Sorcery, I suppose, but I don't know who is superior." I muse, taking the sip from my Sake cup.

"Agamotto? I've heard this name before, from one of the senior Gods, and even from Gaea, once or twice. Is he good?" Scathach asks, drinking her own Sake.

Nodding, I explain, "He is the foremost expert in anything Mystical. He has at least theoretical knowledge of every piece of Mystical subject there is. But why aren't you with Mother right now? She could have cleansed it, easily I think."

Getting a bit sheepish, Scathach says, "Ah.. when I.. left, after your lessons were over.. she did not agree with my decisions, so I'm avoiding her."

Giving her a 'Are you serious?' look, I ask, "You do know that she's currently watching and listening this conversation, don't you?"

"Details." Scathach says, waving her hand, and downing the whole bottle. When the fuck did she take it from me?

Shaking my head, I stand up, and move my legs a bit to bring feeling back to it, and say, "Well, come on. No time like the present."

Scathach nods, and stands up a bit unsteadily. Wide eyed, she exclaims, "Whoa! This Sake is stronger than I remember it being."

Paying the barkeep, I just make a portal to Nepal, and walk through. As Scathach walks behind me, I spread my arms, and says, "Welcome! To Kamar Taj!"

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A/N: I either forgot how to write non plot chapters, or I'm getting more depressed. I'm going to have a time skip, and move on to the next arc after this next chapter.

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