17
After a while of getting stuff set up in the house, with Riveria helping and well setting up Alf plants. I stood before Hestia and shook my head as the petite Divine looked up at me. Currently, we are talking about the upcoming Denatuse of God's. While I was being a cheeky bastard and flooding the dungeon currently with mana infused cluster, air burst, acidic, foam, sound, lightning, and incendiary Seeker's for a test to see how they'll do.
Tartarus, the Dungeon, even found a way to well accost me with a quest through ISAC. Literally, an alert saying I've been accosted for a request was relayed to me by ISAC in a more RPG style window. Checking my watch for my current objectives, the same quest panel comes up. Though I'm both amused and intrigued by the dungeon doing this somehow.
[CODE: ACCOSTED
The Dungeon, Tartarus, is requesting SHD reinforcements to quell a potential Dungeon Break due to some Adventurers and the God Hermes.]
(I have no part in this, but the dungeon is sentient, a deity, and a prison for stuff the Greeks didn't like or the damned. So I find it funny that through its blessing, it's asking you for help. An unintended entertainment factor for sure, and well, I admit in all my fun I pity the Dungeon. It's leashed when it can have so much fun dismembering and murdering Gods!)
"Do you have to deal with that daily?"
Hestia asked as she rather fixatedly looked at the words floating in the air. Shrugging, I gave the petite Divine an answer.
"Ignoring that you can see the floating letters, yes, this is a daily thing. As he says something at least once a day. Usually about entertainment and murdering Gods, though."
"Can he behave?"
"He can be a dick, but he can behave."
(You know you like me, Dakota.)
"See, he's behaving right now."
(Wait, did you just treat me like a pet?)
"I mean when you're like this you remind me of one I had."
(... To be fair, you're essentially my pet, so consider us even.)
Hestia looked between mine and the squids banter, smiling wryly but softly. We may not really like each other that much, but we can be considered friends with benefits. I make God's question life and kill them, he keeps me alive for entertainment and helps me out with things. As my brand of magic essentially uses his LITERAL domain which no deity would allow a mortal to use.
A God's domain is frankly a manifestation of their very power, personality, and very self. So the fact I can freely use it to cast spells, summon creatures, alter minds, teleport, and plenty of other things. It is, in fact, a significant factor almost all other deities would see as careless and way too trusting. Yet, I also sort of figured out why Cthulhu is doing so, revenge. I can't truly leave a mark on a God's soul if I can't effectively maim them, thus this amount of freedom.
Why does he want revenge, though? I can think of something that while he's an Eldritch and seemingly uncaring, he's a father. Someone among the God's must've hurt a child of his that he cares about more than the rest. Which fair out of them all he must have one more peaceful kid that he can't help but be spiteful over.
(You're overthinking things in a very correct manner. This is concerning, how do you act so indifferent to everyone not connected to you? Because you are APPROVING and even FINE with some of the why I'm using you.)
Blinking, I looked at the text and Hestia before simply speaking the honest truth.
"You forget I was the "dad" of my friend group, I'm sociopathic, psychopathic, and will gladly commit mass murder if needed for true friends and family. I don't LIKE you, but you are my friend. You are also showing a person with trust issues like mine, due to my environment growing up creating or bringing out my problems, a very uncanny amount of trust. Thus, I am willing to let some stuff slide and gladly commit crimes to help you. You're a friend, an unintended true friend."
Hestia blinked before giggling like a schoolgirl on prom night as the text in the air seemed to literally glitch. Cthulhu's text took on a red tinge as the Outer God tried making excuses, but eventually, he caved and just said two words.
(Thank you…)
Smirking, I focused on Hestia and got back to discussing the Godly meeting with her. Mainly, how Cthulhu would be attending in a sort of personal way. She looked disturbed at what I'd be allowing, but also relieved after seeing how we interacted. Because having an Outer God possess my body temporarily is a thing no mortal would do with a carefree smile, but it'll be interesting to see what happens. Because I get the feeling it'll be a ghostly experience and that SOMETHING is going to communicate with me.
\\//Inside the Dungeon, ???? POV//\\
Today was not a good day, a newbie had triggered the dungeon so bad it triggered a Monster Swarm. How can someone so idiotically decide, "Hey, I'll check if the Dungeon minds if I try fucking a monster against its will." Oh, did the dungeon take it as OFFENSIVE because of the rookie trying to rape a Mermaid. A Mermaid in which we were bringing up for the Ganesh family, the biggest taming family in all of Orario. Which I proudly serve with all my heart, for our god saved my life when I was a child on the streets and being beat to death by some adventurers.
However, things got WEIRD. These little rolling metallic ball-like monsters started flooding the dungeon from somewhere all of a sudden. However, they didn't attack Adventurer's, intentionally, as just hitting them caused an explosive reaction, they instead targeted the Monster Swarms trying to murder the rookie. Which is more than he deserved, honestly, he's better off dead. Then a strange metallic insect-like monster constantly buzzing with an orange glowing eye appeared, surveying the area before it seemed to single out the rookie that the Mermaid was glaring murderously at.
Things got stressful then as the insect spoke something from where it was and everything went to shit. The rookie was targeted, and forced away from our group forcefully by the ball monsters, essentially corralling him by exploding. Their various effects stayed our hands as we didn't know what one did until it exploded. The rookie was eventually routed and subsequently forced into the waiting maw of a HYDRA, A HYDRA FROM THE LOWER FLOORS, before the Dungeon seemed to calm. Monsters not native to most floors ran everywhere and died as Adventurer's and balls slaughtered them.
The metallic insect monster taking off and disappearing somewhere inside the dungeon with a black clad figure with a glowing wrist accessory following it. We're alive, but this has been a shitty day, I need a drink and a whore…
\\// POV END //\\
//\\ Denatus Meeting Six Hours Later, Cthulhu POV \\//
Walking alongside the hearth, the trickster, and the blacksmith, I found myself thinking over my pawn and the body I was currently possessing, with the Archaean known as Umbra making up my form currently. The mortal known as Dakota Carter was a mortal of many things, one being a tool for me, yet he was also begrudgingly a mortal who due to his sociopathic nature could look me in the face and laugh something off as if it weren't a problem. Genocide? He's done it for me with a smile. Eating a God alive? He's done it while complaining to me about the taste being like that of trash. Burning an orphanage and its inhabitants alive? He rather gleefully jumped at the chance after making sure one or two souls were taken out of it.
He was broken, deranged, and a monster in Human skin. Yet, he was also someone I could count on to help me get a job done and have it been done right, as long as it doesn't involve someone he likes. If it involves them, then he'll fight me like a chimera, manticore, or griffon with that senseless pride and moral of his involving those he perceived as family. That same mortal has done and said many things in my name with little hesitation for a chance to keep this alternative universe alive, as he has people he now considers family here. All for those who would stay beside him regardless of his crimes, he would do anything if they'd survive.
It was… praiseworthy… and at times watching him having lost limbs or lay somewhere dying slowly like a nobody alone has made me regret some choices with him. Yet, he never accepts an apology from anyone, so I don't say anything, instead I do something small but worthwhile for him.
Coming out of my thoughts with a nudge from the trickster, I noticed one of her eyes was partially open. She mouthed silently towards me as the blacksmith and hearth were in front of us talking to each other.
"Your only family member is one special bastard, he can look at us and say some nice things with no dishonesty. Even when knowing of our own crimes and histories, he treats us no different from anyone else, to him, we're just another person who he either likes or cares nothing for. For that, I like him and will make sure he stays alive because It is lonely without any true friends like that."
Humming as some of my tentacles would move and sway in response, I opened his Falna midair for the trickster and high lighted the blessings section. She looked at me with a smile, a smile of cruelty, a smile of hope, a smile of appreciation, a smile of love, and a smile of murderous intent as she somehow pricked her finger and cut a swatch of blood onto the floating falna. Alarm bells ringing in my mind as she just granted him a portion of her divinity and lesser access to her very domain. Her mouth moving as she silently worded a threat and a promise that made the very universal laws react as gold shimmered slightly around her.
"I may be a trickster, but I keep my word, and I shall make sure he lives regardless of who I must help you and him kill. I will not lose another friend… not again, not this time, not like my first child…."
[Falna of The Eldritch Chimera
Name: Dakota Levi Carter
Title(s): Division Agent, Eldritch, Monster Master, Ascending, Embodiment of Dad, Beast's Demi-God, Sociopathic Killer+, Soul of Another Era, Archaean Hive, Tricksters Friend
Level - 7
Age: 1601
Strength: EX - 30,000,000
Endurance: EX - 1,600,000
Vitality: EX - 20,000,000
Agility: EX - 1,234,999
Arcane: EX - 12,000,300
Wisdom: EX - 4,000,000
Charisma: SSS - 1,001,800
Luck: SSS - 1,000,990
Blessing(s): Tartarus Passage, Idh-yaa's Champion, Cthulhu's Champion, Zeus's Champion, Hestia's Champion, Amaterasu's Champion, Azathoth's Interest, Loki's True Friend
Unique Skills: ISAC, SHD Tech, Status Check, Eldritch Magic, Gunsmith, Infinity Ammo, Adaptability, Charm Nullification, Poison Nullification, Avatar, Champion, Monster, Tartarus Guardian, Aristeia, Nyarlathotep, Dad Jokes, Disappointed Dad, Angry Dad, Murder Dad, Family Protector, Trick Magic, Champion of The Divine, Liberated Soul, Liberated Mind
Divine Domain: Eldritch Ascension Seed, Tartarus Ascension Seed, Genocide Ascension Seed, Homicide Ascension Seed, Family Ascension Seed, Insanity Ascension Seed, Sociopath Ascension Seed, Nature Ascension Seed, Beasts Ascension Seed, Death Ascension Seed, Dimensional Ascension Seed, Archaean Ascension Seed, Trickery Ascension Seed, Assassin Ascension Seed
Development Skills: Healing S, Marksman SS, Mage S, Mystery S, Stealth EX, Fire Resistance A, Lightning Resistance EX, Swimming A, Keen Sight S, Stab Resistance SS, Slash Resistance S, Blunt Resistance S, Parkour B, Symphony C, Bullet Time A, Technomancer S, Stare EX, Soldier SSS, Restraint EX, Novelist A, Sleepless SS, Actor B, Devils Luck S, Angels Luck S,
Sub Skills: Iron Stomach, Magic Sensitivity, Hunter Senses, Sociopathic, Monster Taming, Enslave, Multilingual, Archaean Infection, Archaean Bond, Rapid Regeneration, Night Vision, Growl, Tactical Reload, Spray and Pray, Overwatch, Chimera, Weapon Master, Weapons Platform, Solo Army, Personality Switch]
Looking at the falna as it updated, my body burning, I couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of it all. The goddess of trickery just made this mortal take a step closer to becoming his own brand of divine and pushed certain stats into a permanent state that wouldn't reset even by leveling up! It is absurd, but this is the greatest thing to happen, I'm OnE STep ClOSeR tO ThE ReaSOn wHy DaKoTA is eVEn ALIve. I WILL KILL YOU DRUNK BASTARD, YOU MURDEROUS WHORE OF BEAUTY, YOU DERANGED HUNTER, YOU WEASEL OF A GAMBLER, YOU TRAITOROUS SHADOW, AND YOU SMILING EXECUTIONER OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION.
(AN: Take your best guess on which gods those are just from those descriptions and which kid that Cthulhu is out to avenge.)