426 The Gods Schemes (1/2)

In the Divine Realm of Zeus, the God of Thunder, Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom communicated with Geggoron, the Demon Demigod of Hateful Distrust through the Interdimensional Merchant Shop Skill.

Geggoron was a demigod whose divinity were nightmares and had a distrustful nature, it was hard for him to even trust in 'allies', and often plotted against them to take them out of the picture in the future.

Similar to Megusan, his entire nature was that of a scum. Geggoron saw how Megusan was treated due to his nature, and he had decided to escape the Demon Gods Pantheon before he was next into the Demon Gods' plans to eradicate.

He had schemed, and by pulling several strings, he provoked a war between two beastmen Kingdoms, benefiting from it and gathering a large number of followers. While he fed into the sacrifices given to him.

Like some other gods gain Divine Energy by being worshiped, some Demon Gods are capable of winning Divine Energy from the sacrifices made by their believers. Geggoron and Megusan enjoyed this activity very much.

He grew in strength to the point that not even Marnet or Maeralya, the Beast Gods that protected the two beastmen Kingdoms would stand a chance against him. However, just when he was plotting his next course of action, he got to know about Kireina, and Morpheus, one of the beast gods asking for her help, which ended in the ultimate defeat and death of Megusan once and for all.

Geggoron was extremely cautious with his actions and liked to be several steps ahead of its enemies. He knew that Kireina will be sent for his head.

He couldn't sit around and complain about how a mortal could be so strong to kill gods, he had to just plan ahead of time, setting several traps and schemes to defeat or at least weakened Kireina, for the last battle against her where he would possess a strong mortal vessel, defeat Kireina and eat her soul.

But Geggoron was an impatient god…

Kireina was taking too long, she was just leisurely spending her days in her Empire, completely ignoring the tasks given to her.

Geggoron could not wait any longer, he had spent too many materials and Divine Energy. He decided to at least 'provoke' Kireina by making one of her dear family members insane through nightmares.

And this is when Geggoron got to know how wrong he was and how much he was underestimating Kireina.

Even when he had considered several of her powers and abilities, he was overwhelmed.

Geggoron tried to attack Vudia's dreams, but even Kireina's daughter was strangely strong and capable of using Divine Energy.

Kireina had appeared in that nightmare and helped her daughter. Using powers that defied any logic that Geggoron had comprehended, a large chunk of his soul and divinity was taken away from him…

He had become weakened, and the pain rushed through his entire existence.

”Geggoron. You and I have similar goals, the annihilation of Kireina, a menace to this entire Realm.” Said Athena, with a firm voice.

She was talking to him through the Interdimensional Merchant Shop stall made by Geggoron, where he would sell his materials anonymously.

How did Athena know that he was the owner of that stall from all things?

”Athena… From all gods, you, someone in such a high position in the central continent wants to talk with me and offer me some kind of help? How do you expect me to trust you from all things? Do you think I am foolish enough to fall into your schemes, Human Goddess?” muttered Geggoron.

”Schemes? Oh my. Well, I can see from your voice, that you have been quite weakened… I don't think it is convenient for you to reject my offer. Even more when you haven't even heard about it” said Athena.

”Are you threatening me?!” shouted Geggoron.

”Me? How could I bully a little demigod? It is my duty as a Goddess to help and nurture the weaker Demigods. I honestly think that you have a lot of utility and latent talent, Geggoron. I am just trying to make you an ally, and help you out” said Athena. Her voice seemed to be kind, but in fact, she was subtly threatening Geggoron.

”Tsk…”

Geggoron knew that he could not just simply reject someone in such a high authority as Athena, who was the direct children of Zeus. She also had several siblings and a whole pantheon behind her. If he were to infuriate her, she would surely send a few Gods to exterminate him or force him to cooperate.

The moment he answered her call, he had already fallen into her trap.

He was not even strong enough to fight a Goddess such as Athena alone, as he was only a Demigod, the difference in strength was like heaven and earth, he had no chance.

”Athena… Talk! But if your offer is too out of my grasp, don't expect cooperation!” muttered Geggoron.

”Ah, don't worry. It is simple, Geggoron. I will give you a hand, you just need to keep doing what you do best. What you had already planned” said Athena.

”Hm? What?”

”That's what I said… There are not bad intentions here, Geggoron. We have a similar goal, let me give you a hand. If you are capable of defeating Kireina, you can eat her soul if you want, and I will give you a high position in my Pantheon. Sounds good, isn't it?” said Athena.

The benefits seemed outstanding… he was being given all the help we wanted, while also being compensated if he were to triumph? However, it was too good to be true.

”And what if I can't defeat her?”

”Well, you should already expect what will happen to you.” Said, Athena.

”Tsk! This bitch! Do I even have an option in here?! Am I just being used as a pawn now?! Hateful!” thought Geggoron. Although he was still a Demigod, he had grown with a superiority complex. Having someone in a higher position than he comes out of nowhere to treat him like a disposable pawn was… a big hit into his ego.

”Well? What do you say? You were going to try and kill her anyway, so there shouldn't be any issues.” Said, Athena.

”I'm sure that she has something else behind her sleeves… she's not only using me as a pawn, but she is trying to put me inside of her schemes forcefully…” thought Geggoron, grimacing.

”…”

”Hm? Why so silent? Well, I suppose you do not want to cooperate. What a pity… Perhaps I should call that Dragon Demigod… what was his name? Zudig?” muttered Athena.

”Tsk! Zudig?! That bastard… no! I accept your offer, Athena…!” shouted Geggoron.

”I assure you that it is the best decision that you could have taken, Geggoron,” said Athena, as she suddenly sent several artifacts towards Geggoron's Divine Realm through the Interdimensional Merchant Shop.