112 Talking with a god (1/2)
Slightly above the atmosphere of the planet, multiple beings made entirely of light were moving in some very strange ways, to qualify what they were doing. Never once two of those made contact with each other, and there were very clear frontiers between each other that none bypassed. If most were very large and were moving fluidly, one was in such bad shape that even its light was particularly dim.
”Ah shit, here we go again. Look at that, another group of strangers arrived on this planet. What is so important here that they are always things like that that happened?” If the Oracle of Avenio could have heard the telepathic conversation, he would have almost immediately recognized that voice. The God protector of their country, such a wise and generous entity was speaking like a shady seller.
”I don't know. I just hope that they will not do the same as the last ones a while ago. It would be a shame for one of us for sure, am I right Aria?” The stares, if such being could stare at something, were all directed to the extremely feeble god. She had suffered the worst fate amongst everyone that was surrounding this world, and such comments were extremely familiar to her.
”Laugh while you can, fools! I will just remind you that now, I have nearly nothing to lose, unlike you. And who knows, maybe one day, after suffering the same way I did, you will relapse your guard and be swallowed all.” The last thousand of year, she was put in an extremely dangerous position. Unlike her current form that could be still described as a god, she had been reduced to just a fraction of it.
Gods are by definition, voracious eaters, and cannibalism is a form of eating in the end. The only reason why no one dared to try to consume the remnant of Aria was the fact that she could kill herself extremely easily. And the self-combustion of a god was powerful enough to kill the one trying to eat it at that moment. Fortunately, they were still acquaintances and the others didn't try too much, allowing Aria to survive. Even if she had lost a lot of the good spots where souls often left the planet, it was still enough for her to slowly repair her elemental body.
”Enough. We have not escaped the grip of the Ancients to let foreigners steal our world. We will deal with them as we did previously. It will only be slightly harder this time, they are far more discreet and are not splitting their group. And whether you liked it or not, Aria and her believers were extremely helpful.” The biggest god spoke harshly, but none contradicted him. Even they had to take centuries to completely regain the amount of energy they spend to deal with the Dark Gods. Because of this, a few wanted to leave, fearing that this situation will happen again and again.
”Leave if you want, that will only make more souls for us. Good luck finding a planet with that many humans, what could possibly go wrong, it's not like you will only reach worlds filled with dwarves?” Several gods expressed their disgust hearing the term dwarves, one of the worst creatures ever created. They are incapable of utilizing magic and had an extremely hard time even feeling mana. But the worst part was not even that, they had a very nasty soul and for some, not even one.
In their regards, the more a race was familiar with mana, the better the soul will be. After that, you also have the specificity of the race, with the humans being one of the most sought beings for the gods, with them being numerous and capable. On the complete opposite, the dwarves with their horrible soul were despised. As for the soulless, they did not even want to talk about that. This caused the vampire to be as hated as the dwarves, even when their affinity with mana was extremely good. It was not that they were soulless, but they intentionally fractured their souls, making it the same for the gods.
So in the end, nobody left. After all, it was a gamble to let go of such a wonderful world for an uncertain future. But to protect it, they had to once more sacrifice a bit of themselves. Feeling extremely despondent about doing such, they still couldn't find another option. Until Oslo proposed something extremely stupid, even for their standards.
”What if we just talk to them?” After such an idiotic statement was pronounced, everyone laughed. And then, wondered why they didn't think about that. As much as it sounded stupid, there was nothing against such action. Only Aria was totally adamant against that, but no one truly cared about her opinion. She was the weakest of them all, only surviving because they couldn't kill her.
”Fine, do it!” The largest entity in the cold space approved it, only for Oslo to have better shut his mouth. If he knew it would have ended like that, with only him consuming his energy to establish a communication, he would have convinced another god to tell the idea instead of him. Reluctantly, he created a projection on the planet, right in front of the base of those demons.
He didn't have to wait for very long, and soon, the small child that seemed to be the leader appeared in the outside. Even if it was quite costly to permanently use their powers to see what was happening down there, they still shouldered the cost to understand how big was the threat. The problem was that they could receive from the souls' information about the shape-shifting man, the red giant, the blue man, and the succubus. But absolutely nothing on that child.
Because of this, they estimated that it was like that time when the Dark Gods roamed the land. There was also one man that stole souls from them, and a few others that were destroying the souls. Without the later, they wouldn't be able to eat anything, meaning that as a result, they gave powers to mortals on this world. And will most likely do it again if he couldn't convince the other party to not do that anymore.
Leilade looked at the breath-taking man in front of her. He was absolutely perfect, no other adjective could describe him, and would have looked almost human, if not for his gold skin. Seeing this, she could guess who had come to pay them a visit. Truthfully, she was puzzled by this sudden arrival, knowing far too well how the gods disliked above anything else having to use their energy. And this projection had to cost something. Trying something, she threw a name, randomly.
”Oslo I guess? Why are the gods interested in this world?”
Oslo was completely shocked by it. ”How was it possible for a mortal to know about him, no, before even that, how did she find out he was a god?” If Leilade would have learned this thought, she would have gladly laughed, as much as when she managed to beat Candaith to the ground. Besides a god, who would be looking like that, and with a golden skin to add. And who would be right in front of her like that, it's not like they had killed everyone that came nearby previously.