Chapter 112 - Bullying

Unbeknownst to Hajime and everyone else who is busy fighting against the Army of Monsters encroaching upon the town of Ur, Ray's side quests to steal the Apostles of Ehit went down to an unexpected conclusion.

At first, Ray thought of using his Charisma to persuade the Apostles, namely Hearst, the first and appointed leader of the other Apostles, which is her over ten thousand sisters.

He showed them the truth, the reality that Ehit, their master, sees them as nothing but disposable tools and how he never cared about them. However, when he said all that to hopefully turn them to his side willingly. It failed as expected.

So, Plan B. Since persuasion wouldn't work, he tried subjugating them through force, by sending Freya to beat them down to the last inch of their life. Still didn't work because of their apparent loyalty.

Frustrated, Ray questions Hearst. He wondered what exactly could sway her loyalty from her current Master. Unexpectedly, she babbles that she might consider it if he could kill Ehit. Of course, she said it as a taunt. Not an actual answer. Smiling and grinning defiantly, thinking there is no chance Ray could win against her 'Omnipotent' Master.

Ray gives her an amused look. He normally wouldn't be swayed by an obvious taunt. But such a challenge, especially toward those that doubt his strength.

He said, "Oh, is that so?" Before he shed his feline form and transformed into his preferred humanoid form and reached his left arm into the space next to him which cracked and shattered to reveal the void filled with nightmarish and horrific Eldritch monsters.

Retracting his arm, his hand firmly holding the humanoid made of a lump of energy, a soul-like being, Ehit as the Apostles recognise his presence.

"You think this insect is stronger than me?" Ray questions before his left arm turn black and spawn numerous eyes and jaws lined with sharp fangs and canines that suddenly turn into a gigantic twisted monster with a gaping maw that swallowed Ehit and devour it while the pathetic God screams and howled whilst his soul is being devoured.

After the arm turned monster finished devouring the God, it spat out a mutilated and half chewed corpse of Ehit, reduced to his mortal form in front of the Apostle Hearst who, like her sisters, looked shocked and in disbelief.

Seeing the lack of response, Ray figures. His display is still not enough to convince the Apostles. So, he snapped his finger and the half chewed, mutilated corpse suddenly snapped back to place and healed before Ehit woke up like he just experienced a terrible nightmare only to figure out it isn't.

"M-M-MONSTER!" He uttered before a bunch of Eldritch creatures spawned from his shadow and voraciously devoured him once more in front of the shell-shocked Hearst with blood splashed on her beautiful but terrified face.

"For a god, you are quite weak. At least put up some meaningful resistance or something." Ray sighed and snapped his finger again before Ehit's body regenerated rapidly from the last few scraps of his uneaten flesh before the process restarted once again and again and again.

Ray boredly watches while being coddled affectionately in his child form by his Valkyries Goddess who is eager to please him in whatever manner possible. Surprisingly, the receiving side of head petting feels surprisingly good. Especially when she scratched near the base of his cat-like ears. Almost made him fall asleep while purring constantly.

After a while, the message finally reached the head of the Apostles. Seeing how their God who they see as all powerful and invincible, toyed like that. It's clear that they could be the one next if his patience ran thin. To be toyed and tortured to death and the respite of death is outside of their reach, none want to offend such illogical beings even with their fierce loyalty and lack of emotions, felt doubt and fear, the primordial fear of the incomprehensible horror beyond the understanding of their feeble mind.

In the end, after seeing the state of Ehit. The ten thousand Apostles led by Hearst swore their loyalty to Ray although only out of fear. But that didn't matter because their genuine loyalty can be fostered and nurtured at a later date.

Naturally, due to their appearance. He sees it fit that Freya took them in as her subordinates and is now in charge of them while he now figures out how to apologize to Hajime because he turned the last boss of his world into this pathetic weeping mess begging for swift mercy.

Jumping out from Freya's lap, Ray walks up to Ehit and lifts his head up by his hair.

"Listen. You want to die right?" He asked and Ehit fervently nodded his head while shivering in fear.

"Good. Because I have a deal for you. It's very simple. Never mentioned what happened today, you will be giving me the Apostles willingly and lastly, in the near future, someone named Hajime Nagumo will come and find you. Die in his hand and I will promise you an eternal rest. I want you to fight him like your life depends on it, not just a half-ass battle. Am I clear?" Ehit bobbed his head again before Ray let go of him and snapped his finger before Ehit regained all his previous power devoured off him and sent back to the last boss room or whatever.

Ray placed some 'safety measure' just in case if Ehit become disobedient. But he doubt that would ever happen with how the first thing he did after Ray sent him back is try to suicide only to find his own body and power no longer follow his will.

With that wrap up, he unsummon Freya who looked disappointed by the briefness of her summon but eagerly awaiting for his next summon. Then, this clone of his dissolved itself into its own Shadow before vanishing.

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"Yeah… *Cough* I gotta go. I still have to look for my runaway wife and daughters." Ray hurriedly try to escape after he helped resolving the Army of Monster by roleplaying as Godzilla, shooting beam of destructive energy similar to its thermonuclear pulse attack to decimate half of the army in one shot and later a dozen more which caused too much of a damage on the landscape itself but Ray fix them all which avoids being branded as evil. Instead, he is now praised as a Guardian Deity of some sort by the locals.

"Alright. See you later, Admin and thanks for your help…" Hajime said, thankful for the help but perhaps Ray was too flashy on his method that he now rather ask Ainz or Rimuru instead to help.

After giving farewell to Hajime's group, Ray went on his merry way to the next universe unfortunately enough to be his destination as this bored 12th Dimensional Eldritch God is still eager to play before fulfilling his actual objective of searching for his runaway wife and daughters.

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