Cleaning Up Loose Ends

A.N. Hey all! Today is the last day and I will say that it has been an amazing time for me when it comes to writing. It felt...Freeing almost to be able to just write without holding back. I originally wanted to post a chapter or two yesterday or earlier today, but I wanted to have something special since this is kind of a send off. This may be the last time I post anything. I didn't reach my goal, but I'm glad that I got anything to begin with, and I think that if I had more time and life didn't spring this on me so suddenly, I could have reached it.

That being said, I really do want to thank you all for being as receptive as you have been to the situation I am in. I expected a lot of hate cause of the whole: "Hey this fanfic writer on the internet is asking for money" type of thing. I'm sure that there were plenty of people who all had different situations going on that led them to do things of similar levels, even if it may have not been in the fanfic space. I'm just glad that people even wanted to support me in the first place.

I myself am a very skeptical person who hates taking risk, and generally doesn't trust people all that much due to a pretty damn bad upbringing. Its why I tend to write mc's who don't have a heavily traumatic past, cause why would I want to inflict things that I went through on my characters when they didn't deserve that? So what if it would allow me to relate to them, that type of pain is not something that people should go through if they don't have to, even if they are fictional. I'm not saying that trauma doesn't build character, because it does and I do enjoy reading characters like that from time to time, I just don't have it in me to inflict that type of stuff on my own characters. Even when they are thrown into environments that would pit them against almost impossible odds, like with my worm fic.

I digress though since I am getting sidetracked. The point is, yall have given me the one thing that I thought I lost in life, Hope. It really makes me regret not posting my fics regularly sooner. I wish I would have just let go and taken the risk in writing sooner, not even at the beginning of this year, but years ago when I first posted a fic onto the internet. If I didn't have a very clear fear of crashing and burning after it happening a few times in my life, I would have done it sooner.

Regardless, I am posting this last chapter as a thank you for all the support you have given me, quite frankly I almost didn't post at all, but I felt like I would be doing a disservice to you all if I didn't at least post one more chapter to this fic, even if it will leave it unfinished. I'm sorry for not finishing this fic, there is so much more I wanted to write for it, I wanted Levi to have an ever increasing harem, I wanted to write an extremely detailed lemon scene between Mark, Jane, and Jess. I wanted to slowly write out Sebby's intro into becoming a king of the fae. I wanted to finally have Circi come out of her shell and get shacked up with a certain someone from the biblical factions. I wanted to write more about the Norse Pantheon and Retzio's training there.

There is so, so much more, but I am not able to put it all down without blatantly spoiling my own story. I had it all pictured out. I wanted to write a fic that was damn near 500k+ words if not more, regardless of how long it too. As I am writing this my eyes are kinda watery. I haven't really cried like this in a longtime, heck, these past 4-5 days have been the most stressful and probably happy I have been in a long time.

Its the last day, but I will put this kofi here: k.o.-.f.i.c.o.m(slash)oshimura# because regardless of how miniscule the chances may be, even if its .000001% chance, I want to hold onto that hope. Since I don't think I will be able to continue on without it. If it weren't for my writing, nothing else would keep me going.

Over the years, I have slowly lost interest in everything I thought I enjoyed, games, music, watching shows, videos, drawing. None of them have kept my interest with time. None except writing and reading. I think that is all I will say, because if I keep typing this, I don't think I will have the power to post it. With that in mind, I hope you enjoy this last chapter, no matter what happens.

Stay safe, and keep pursuing your dreams, don't wait to do it.

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Those filthy heretics were ruining all of our plans to satisfy the needs of our lord for holy weapons. Thankfully we managed to steal many of their techniques by ravaging the disgusting minds of the fae. No matter what, I will bring satisfaction to the church, the angels, and the one true lord of this world. My musings were interrupted by one of the exorcists under me.

"Father Free, the heretics are attacking us! What do we do? This is the last base of operations we had!" The exorcist that I believe was named Zulstria, I never really paid attention to her name, but rather her heavenly graced body instead. I clicked my tongue in annoyance at the current situation. Those disgusting golems, the occasional homunculi, and the fake god behind them dismantled our operation piece by piece. Ever since a particular fae escaped our grasp, they have been nothing but trouble for us.

We could never permanently put them down, let alone hurt them in the first place. Even the many heroes that we had protecting various bases were dismantled and taken down either by that fake god's children personally, or by one of their direct subordinates. We stood no chance anymore, but I could take solace in the fact that the Vatican and Heaven would have their method of creating weapons by now. All for the grace of our God.

"We must retreat so we can fight another day. Destroy any and all documents you can, the church already has plenty of copies, then get out. Move quickly!" I yelled out orders to her, and she bolted out of the room. With an exasperated sigh, I prepared my talisman I kept for emergencies so I could teleport to a safe house. However, I paused, it wasn't working.

"Isn't that interesting? Father Free himself. Such an ironic name considering that you caused the freedom of an entire race to be lost due to your insane machinations. Of course, it wasn't just you, since you had the backing of the church. But, that's not important right now." I turned around to face two very powerful heretics. The fake goddesses' overseer, and the bitch that escaped us so long ago. I had no choice but to take myself out with them, they couldn't know what was going on. Before I could react though, magical chains surrounded my entire body.

"Ah, ah, ah. I'm not letting you take yourself out dear Mr. Free. You see, you have a lot to pay for, for what you caused. My partner here would love to extract all of that wonderful information that you have in that deranged head of yours. Of course, I can't let you die on me. No, no, no. Death would be a sweet mercy for someone like you. By the time we're done, you will wish, nay, pray for death. Even then I won't let you die." I felt fear at the very pit of my soul for the first time in my life. I couldn't even get out a word before I was graced by darkness.

Sebastian

We have finally dismantled the operations that the church had for the fae. Although, not 100%. The Church and Heaven had information pertaining to the techniques the fae use to make holy weapons. Of course it wasn't the greatest techniques that Viviane had access to, but it was still worrying to say the least. Hopefully it wouldn't affect the great war at large, because if it did, Father might have to step in.

"Finally, my people can be at peace. Hey Sebby, while I am not well versed in torture, I would love to watch what Retzio has planned for Mr. Free here. You think he would let me watch?" Viviane looked at me with a sparkle in her eyes. The woman was rather vindictive when it came to anything that happened to the rest of the fae. Although she had every right to do so considering what the corrupt fools under the church had done to them.

We were barely able to recover many of the remaining members of the fae due to exorcists culling them once they noticed our presence within the base. Thankfully we could heal them with ease due to our healing magic, and phoenix tears.

"I'm sure he wouldn't mind at all. Plus I'm sure that Loki would be there as well since she doesn't leave his side, unless he is directly out on a mission. You could strike up conversation with her while you watch him work. Also, he told me that he managed to capture a female exorcist named Zulstria that was a direct subordinate of Free. I still find his name quite ironic. That exorcist seemed to be pretty pure all things considered. Just another person brainwashed by the corrupt parts of the church." Viviane had a genuine smile as she cuddled into my side.

It was nice to finally take care of those pests from the church. They really were way worse in this time period and made the things that would happen during current times look as pure as a proper holy maiden. Although it really shouldn't surprise me, Mother hates those that would commit needless atrocities.

Mark

Ya know, as much as I wanted to stay mostly hands off during the great war, each event that it causes makes me want to get more active. Slowly but surely, the other factions are getting drawn into the stupid war that the biblical factions have caused. All because the first one to reject their light with daddy issues decided that they wanted to take their father's place. Then decided to drag their fallen siblings into this war in order to take some stupid revenge on them as well.

This doesn't make Heaven innocent in this case though. In fact, they were the ones that started this. Lucifer was actually complacent to try and actually build a proper society for the devils. Until the angels decided to just no sell a large amount of devils on a daily basis. This drove Lucifer into a mindless rage of vengeance and power. It didn't help that they were extremely prideful and still hated their father to the core.

This caused Lucifer to start having Lilith birth devils by the tens of thousands, and started the whole craze of them consuming souls for power. Although, it didn't help that once Lucifer started to have somewhat of an even ground with the angels, they went further and started attacking the fallen as well. Rage is always a huge issue when it's blind.

There were a multitude of factors on top of all that is mentioned, but suffice to say, all three of the factions caused many issues for each other, and those around them.

I took a deep breath and sat back in my office chair. Reading over the continued reports of the great war, Kinami's progress with the Yokai, the clean up of the fae operation, and more, made me want to take a break. However, there were too many things going on at the moment, plus I always made sure to mix in work with rest. Work-life balance goes a long way on the mental. Plus the endless amount of games, anime, and lustful nights with Jess and Jane, kept me going.

It didn't help that my power consistently grew more versatile as I made more golems with different power bases from all the games I played, and all the anime I watched. Although, I am still going through skyrim, considering I found this mod that basically makes it an entirely new game. Revamped graphics, gameplay, a large amount of additional spells, shouts, new enemies, and more. It's been my most played game since I have been in this universe.

"Mark, Sebastian found traces of Ophis. One of the rabbits managed to find a place that she frequents within the mortal world." Jess came into the room in her secretary outfit, happy with the news she provided me.

"Wonderful, I think it's about time I interacted with her. Did you prepare the specialized Ophis package I detailed to you in case she was found?" Jane came in after her and answered my question instead.

"Of course, we had several prepared on the off chance she was found sooner." I stood up and started to get excited. It was about time I unlocked some of my divinity so I can stop having to deal with the increasing downsides of my different forms.

Kinami

To think that it only took a year or so before the entire Yokai faction was taken over and reigned in. Yasaka has been wonderful to work with. Although now was the next and probably biggest move we were going to take.

"Are you sure this is a wise decision to do now? I know we discussed this for a while, and I'm fully prepared to go along with it, but creating a separate dimension would take a large amount of power to do and maintain. Let alone connect it to the home of golem kind." This is one of the things I adored about her, she wasn't a yes-woman. She actually got curious and questioned my decisions at times, instead of just going along with everything.

We were in an office built for us that we have been utilizing during the time that we took over the separate factions of the yokai. Yasaka also got much stronger herself as she consistently trained her magic each day on top of her work as a leader.

"Of course. As much as I would love to confront the shinto gods now that we have full control of the yokai, it would be better to seal off from the world, at least partially. If we had a conflict with them, it would cause a power vacuum that other factions would take advantage of. They were already on edge due to the war spearheaded by the biblical factions. I would rather not get third-parties by some wannabe's with delusions of grandeur." She tilted her head in thought, and I couldn't help myself from patting her head.

She cuddled up to me as I groomed her tails. They were very sensitive as she shivered in pleasure each time I groomed them. Even after the many nights we had together, she still wasn't used to this type of thing. It made me want to eat her up. Unfortunately, we had to take care of the dimensional thing since the shinto gods were going to get off their lazy asses soon.

"I can accept that, as long as we can integrate the yokai into golem society properly, and have enough proper resources, it wouldn't be difficult to get used to. Although there is another thing we need to take care of." She pulled out a file from her bosom and handed it to me. As I read over it, it went into the details of the local ley lines that were used for their magical power by the Principal clans, and the shinto.

"We will just have to seal them off, or make sure they can't use them in order to gain more power. Although it might be a good idea to hide a magical kill switch within them. Get them overly reliant on them, and when we are ready to strike, we will wipe their prideful, posh, and arrogant looks off their faces, before we take them down." Yasaka shivered within my embrace as I finished uttering my statement. She looked up at me with a form of lust that was almost primal. My engine was roaring at me to take her right then and there.

I pulled her into a deep, tantalizing kiss, fighting her tongue for dominance. I used a wonderful application of magic to teleport her clothes off of her body, alongside my own. While dominating her mouth with my tongue, I guided her to a couch within the office, pushing her down. Once I released the kiss, she was almost gasping for air, and almost squirming under me. Not in nervousness, but excitement.

"If we weren't so strapped for time, I would love to go for hours." She frowned for a moment, but yelped when I used my tails to play with her own. One of my hands sliding in between her legs to focus on her slit, the other playing with her left breast. Being able to extend the length of my tails is a wonderful thing, so are certain sex magic spells that Mama Jess taught me. One of which being a spell to amplify sensitivity by multiple times the norm.

The other was flesh magic, but I wanted to try something new today, so I had my tails play with both of her lower regions.

"Oh~ I didn't know your tails could…Be used like…This." She was panting out those words as I made her putty in my hands, and tails. I pulled her into another deep kiss, then felt like she was drenched enough down there, before plunging two of my tails within the deeper reaches of pussy, and her rear.

"Ahhh~" If it weren't for the soundproofing magic covering this room, the entire compound would have heard her moans. I was also feeling every bit of pleasure she was feeling due to a spell that allowed us to share senses. I lost count of the amount of orgasms the both of us went through in the short time we had. Before we finished though, I flipped her over, pulled her face into my own snatch, and had her get to work.

"It wouldn't be fair for me to do all the work, so get started my foxy slut~"

"Of course Madam, your orders are my command." I felt a spark go up my spine as she got to work after she said that. Yasaka was able to wonderfully utilize her tongue, and my goddess, she had a long tongue, and knew how to use it. So as my tails rapidly sped up, so did her tongue, filling out every inch of my inner walls, while her hands got to work playing with my slit.

All of the excitement of our senses being linked up caused us to reach our final orgasm. It was so ferocious, that the couch would have been broken apart, if it weren't magically enchanted.

"That was amazing. I do hope that won't be the last time you use your tails like that Kinami~" After we came down from our collective afterglow, Yasaka and I headed to the onsen to get cleaned up.

"Of course. Expect a repeat of that and much more over time. There are many things I would love to experiment with. Sex magic is a wonderful thing when combined with other branches of magic." I cuddled with Yasaka in the water of the onsen as we relaxed for the rest of the day. This is the last day of relative peace before we make the big move tomorrow. I'm happy that I met Yasaka, honestly.

"And I'm ecstatic that I had the opportunity to meet you. Regardless of how things started."

"I said that out loud didn't I?" She rested her head on my shoulder.

"Of course you did. I think it's cute, you do that from time to time when you are contemplating things deeply. Madam Jane said you share that similarity with your mother." I was somewhat exasperated at that. Of all things, I even picked up some of the minor habits that Mom has.

Circi

I have finally reached a point in strength that I can do my mission given my Mother. Although, right now it is best to wait for things to settle down a bit on the war, before I start making moves. So I think it would be a great idea to study one of the prototypes that Miss Jane made to combine a sacred gear and growth item.

"Madam Circi, Miss Jess had requested that I, and I quote: "drag you out of your hidey hole to relax." So I would like to request that we visit the arcade that was recently created by some golem adventurers that wanted to try their hands at making games." I sighed. Miss Jess knew my one weakness that would get me out of my study/lab. Kuro. He was my son in all but blood at this point.

The tattoo of mine that was on him that formed when I named him was a lot more familial than I initially thought after I studied it more. It's funny that I'm the first one out of my siblings with a child, and yet I'm the only one not in a relationship of some kind. Kinami has Yasaka, Sebastian is with Viviane, Retzio has Loki, and even Levi has Jewel with her now. Malek doesn't count due to them not being around long enough.

Mother wasn't very subtle at all in her want for grandchildren. The same for Miss Jane and Jess. Quite frankly, it was almost blatant at this point due to their favoritism over Kuro. Not that she minded honestly, Kuro was a wonderful and mature child, if a bit naive. Also very powerful. His army was very powerful with all of them being at the top of High-class at the bare minimum, and his first shadow summon being as strong as Levi's articuno.

"Very well, we can check out this arcade. Although next time, if you want to go to a place like that with me, you can just ask." Kuro beamed with excitement. Pulling me by the arm out of my study. It made me smile seeing him so happy about spending time like this. He probably had a gaming obsession, not that it was surprising. Every single member of the golem race was a gamer. If I didn't know better, I would think mother was a goddess of games.

The arcade itself was a fairly well done rendition of what mother described them to be. It had a fair amount of golems who looked like they were relaxing from various quests from the guild. The games ranged from a claw machine, to fighting games, to racing car games, and there were even some ddr games. Of which, Kuro gunned straight for DDR. It was a favorite of Kuro's and mine as well.

"Hey Kuro, how about we make this game a bit more interesting. If you manage to perfect a song of my choice, I'll get you anything from this arcade." Kuro smirked at me and hopped directly on the machine.

"And what if I lose Madam?" I joined him on a machine beside his.

"You have to call me Mom." Kuro actually paused, then blushed in embarrassment. Some of the golems in the background watched on in amusement.

"You're on Madam." He faced the machine as I went through the songs. Kuro and I may love this game and play it a lot, but there was one song that I could never perfect, even with me utilizing my full physical prowess. Since mother deemed it necessary to make certain video games even harder so we can't use our enhanced senses and physical capabilities or magical capabilities to win easier.

Before long, I saw Kuro start to sweat as he saw what song I chose, but he still had a look of determination. The song I chose was named PSMO or Paranoia Survivor Max Oni. I smirked, then started the song.

Levi

Necromancy was a difficult school of magic. At least it is when you don't take shortcuts to power that would cause the magic to be unstable. It's why necromancy is seen in a bad light 9 times out of ten. A lot of necromancers didn't have the capability to just summon the undead off of pure magic, so instead they either looted corpses like graverobbers, or did some messed up things with souls.

Jewel however is what I would call an 'ethical' necromancer. Once that went against the normal path and carved their own. That's a rabbit hole that I don't want to delve down right now though. Since I was currently doing something of vast importance. I was preparing for my date with Jewel. I haven't been this nervous since I was trying to avoid being grounded by mama Jane.