Pay it forward

With the basic completion of the contract time flew by. There were some reincarnated people in hell that I fucking wrecked. They were the typical annoyances that wanted a harem and thought that, since they had the power of god and anime on their side, they would be fine.

I showed them that borrowed powers will never let you surpass those that make their own. I got my powers from gods as well, but you won't hear me saying it's invincible. Besides, I've already defeated quite a few gods and mother ascended to divine with some training with the god groups that I lent my Enkidu to.

I lent them again because I can regenerate the chains now that they have been scanned by my gate. I can't do it very fast because this is top tier shit I got. I was only able to regenerate one of each chain in the hundred years it took for the contract to consider itself complete.

I'm going to meet Gaia next week because I'm helping a demon queen take care of a summoned hero in another world. I teleport in and see the hero party giving my cousin Annabeth a very tough time.

"This is the end demon king!", a blond hair, blue eyed man said in Japanese. I took the blade he had out of his hands along with the legendary equipment of the other party members, including their clothes, and tossed them into the gate.

"I must say that your skills with the sword are most impressive. However, I don't want to see my cousin getting killed, even if she will respawn because of some safety features I've made for hell.", I tell the hero party while healing Annabeth.

"Another demon! Sweet goddess, where are my clothes!?", the paladin said while covering his junk waving about in the wind. The two girl backliners scream and squat down to cover their shame.

"Well now, can you explain the contract and what your plan is Annabeth?", I ask while giving her a warm smile. Her mother Beelzebub was going to inherit hell because my mother Satan didn't have a large enough reserve of miasma at the time. They stuck through it together and learned that Satan had a small reserve because of her weak strength and, when she gets stronger physically, her reserve increases at a faster rate.

"The goddess of this world is weakening because the pope is taking her powers with forceful blessings. She contacted mother to kill off the pope and return the powers he has stolen, but mother was out fighting a cosmic entity in another universe and I had fought heroes before. I didn't think it would be this bad, but they've already taken more than half her power and given a quarter of it in summoning a hero.", she tells me. I turn around to convince the hero to return home, only to be met with a holy smite to the face. The priest was still covering her privates but was using it to chant a prayer in secret.

"Nice a direct hit this… GUK!", the thief of their party got that far before he was punched through a wall. In the past hundred years, I've been focusing on my innates and learned that anything touching my skin can be devoured with my devouring innate. It won't harm me unless the power is coming faster that I can devour it. I can also devour kinetic energy.

"It's not nice to interrupt a family reunion.", I say and turn to the one with the most power. "Hero you are helping these people steal the powers of a goddess. This is bad because that goddess has a job to keep stability in the worlds she governs. Also, humans need to earn their own godhood.", I tell him in his native language.

"What! How are you speaking Japanese? No one in this world was able to understand me when I arrived.", he asks.

"I have traveled many worlds and seen many variations of the same world. I can see you were taken from your home so I will give you a chance. In exchange for returning the powers of the goddess to her, I will send you home with an ability of better memory for your future. The ability is for making the deal balanced on both sides.", I tell him and see anticipation and wariness in his eyes.

"What will happen to my friends? I have spent so much time with them and don't want anything to happen to them.", he asks and looks at the still naked people behind him. He quickly turns away because he was to focused on us to notice their plight.

"I will simply extract the powers and return it to the goddess. After the job is done, we will return to hell and not bother this world again.", I say. The others in his party don't know what we are saying and are worried the hero will betray them to go home.

"Will you promise not to hurt them?", he asks me. I don't want to deal with people from modern worlds anymore because they have such different understandings of the world. A promise is so unbinding, but just wants a paper-thin excuse to leave with a free conscience.

"I promise, but your quarter of the goddess's power must be returned.", I tell him.

"I accept.", he says, and a crystal is removed from his chest as it flies into the sky and a golden light is poured onto the land in thanks. I open a portal and motion for him to enter. He does so but the mage girl of the hero party gets up and fires an ice spear at his heart. It narrowly avoids him, and he stumbles into the portal while making eye contact with the person who tried to kill him.

"You traitor!", the girl yells as the portal closes.

"I promised him I would not hurt you so please return her powers willingly. In exchange for returning them I will grant you your own powers in a contract.", I tell them. Annabeth says that won't work because they are stubborn. They prove her right by insulting us when they can't even see me move, idiots. I just synthesize out the powers and return them to the goddess.

While we make our way to the headquarters of the church, Annabeth and I catch up on how we've been and how hell is lately. The overall power of hell is increasing daily with the inventions I've been making. When I took all the angel's knowledge and power, I made improvements in almost all the inventions in hell. New demon kings have risen in the last hundred years than ever recorded in the history of hell.

I tell her about how I want to train with her some time so she can protect herself from these problems in the future. I hear her mumble about training in other ways because she's a perverted demon and love in hell is openly expressed between family members. She even had a relationship with her mother before.

We make it to the church and give them the same offer as the hero's party. Only the pope accepts, and I give him a power equivalent to the other one fourth of power he stole from the goddess. I gave him an ability to summon legendary class food and it was considered a fair trade, because the powers were of equal absolute value. The relative value for the pope was less so, but since he didn't specify what he wanted he got what I gave him.

I teleported to the clouds with Annabeth to watch the church hunt down the pope that could only summon food. All his other powers were stolen from the goddess, so he could only eat a grilled leak that tasted divine and get shot in the eye by an archer saint. The power flew out of his body and was "cleansed" by a group of priests.

I returned home, while Annabeth went to collect her reward from the goddess.

"Would you like to split the reward on this one? You basically did everything, so I think you deserve it.", she asked me.

"Nah. Just pay it forward when you find another demon in need.", I tell her and hop into the portal back home.