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A Goddesses' Blessing on this Six-Faced World by Beta Orionis
KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World & Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Xover Rated: T, English, Humor & Adventure, Aqua, Kazuma S., Eris, Rudeus Greyrat, Words: 21k+, Favs: 42, Follows: 61, Published: Dec 29, 2023 Updated: Mar 29, 2024
4Chapter 2
Author's Notes:
Grammarly's latest update screwed up my work; I had to manually undo a lot of the "auto-correct" it gave me.
This isn't a one-shot story but will end in less than ten chapters. I'm speed-running LN 11 and 12 to get Kazuma to a more useful age.
A Goddesses' Blessing on this Six-Faced World
Chapter 2: The Axis cult of the Six-Faced World
K 424, Sharia, Ranoa
Kazuma Satou/ Lucie Greyrat
I remember watching a random documentary about how crazy North Korean propaganda was about their rulers. They claimed their eternal leader learned how to talk by three weeks old and could walk by eight weeks, and how they were blessed by the communist god of the mountain or something like that.
Well, I felt like that; whatever blessings the goddesses gave me made me grow much faster than a normal baby. Aqua kept pumping mana into me as if I were a pet project. (AN: Consider how much mana Emperor Zel was force-fed as an egg). Six months later, I looked more like a three-year-old, and I could speak and understand human, beast, fighting, demon, heaven, sea, and even dragon languages.
Although those languages were uploaded to me by an apologetic Eris a few months ago, she snuck in, red hair and all. She forgot to take out her wig and the other parts of her disguise.
A few months back
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K 423, Sharia, Ranoa
Kazuma Satou/ Lucie Greyrat,
And that's also what confirmed my suspicions.
Thanks to her language uploads, I called her out the moment I could speak.
Narrowing my eyes at her. "I knew it, Big Boss; why didn't you tell me you're Eris-sama? I was already suspicious when Chris went to heaven and called you." I spoke in an annoying baby-sounding voice; then again, I was barely three months old at that point; it took a literal blessing from a Goddess to push my body this far. I looked more like a one-year-old.
"E-he~~ You see, we were in a crisis, and I couldn't expose my mortal form to just anyone. Especially after cleaning up Aqua's messes with the leftover divine artifacts." Eris said as she pointed to the door. "I know she's a handful, but she's still my friend. I don't want her to get into more trouble with the gods."
It was slowly opening, and at that moment, Eris disappeared.
"I sensed my subordinate somewhere? Kazuma? Did you see Eris? She left me in this useless world and couldn't even help her senpai out. Ugh, why am I even asking you? Your dumb baby form still can't speak no matter how many times I blessed your body to grow faster. At least you can stand and walk on your own now." Aqua tried to prank me again by wetting my sheets with her water magic. She kept accusing me of wetting the bed even though I managed to be potty trained as soon as I could stand at one-month-old.
I decided to turn the favor.
"Create water!" I spoke quietly.
"Ahhhhh!" Aqua screamed as the lower half of her dress was wet.
Rudeus and Sylphie rushed in.
"Aqua, I know you keep saying Goddesses don't use the bathroom, but if you really can't hold it in, you can always just borrow Lucie's old stuff. She doesn't need it anymore." Rudeus said before Aqua bopped him on the head.
"Idiot, Goddesses don't need to use the bathroom! And Kazuma can talk!" Aqua heard me say the spell and pointed me out.
"That's impossible. Even I took over half a year to understand human language, and I couldn't speak well until I was one. I don't think Kazuma would speak Japanese to you at this young age. Even though you somehow made him able to stand and walk, there's got to be a limit to your ridiculous powers." Rudeus looked at me suspiciously.
"Aqua is right; my favorite goddess uploaded seven languages in my head, so now I can communicate properly." I sounded slightly less awkward than before, although it might take some getting used to.
Aqua and Rudeus continued to argue throughout the night; Sylphie and I enjoyed the commentary.
Back to Aqua's adventures with Rudeus and Elinalise
K 423, Bazaar, Begaritt Continent
Rudeus Greyrat
The day after Aqua cured Elinalise of her curse, we reached the top of the rock shelf and saw Bazaar.
Kazuma's note: The timeline for the first part of the story is inconsistent with the last time I heard it because Aqua and Rudeus had a different version.
Although everyone agreed that Elinalise's curse was removed shortly before entering Bazaar and before meeting Aqua's first followers, End Note
From our vantage point, the city looked like a donut. The big round lake in the middle was surrounded by tents and buildings, with a small green area on the outskirts.
This would've been an impressive sight if not for the lake Aqua created last week. Now, it just reminds me of sweets I missed from home.
"We're finally here." Elinalise sighed. "That was quite a trip."
"Yeah, no kidding, we had to travel through a brand new lake and face all those monsters each step of the way," I commented.
"Finally! I can get beer!" the blue-haired priestess shouted from a distance.
Wait, where's Aqua?
It appeared she was running towards the town, which was still more than a day's walk away, and I was hard-pressed to catch up with that idiot.
Despite her and Elinalise carrying most of the luggage, I struggled to catch up with her speed due to their greater strength and stamina.
A piercing cry filled the air as we saw a small group of Gryphons up ahead.
Two people were critically injured while three were fighting. The fourth person was just hiding in a corner.
"Should we help them out?" I asked Elinalise
We didn't even have a choice since the Gryphons chose to attack Aqua instead. She seemed to attract those monsters away from the party; I guess her high-speed run for beer got their attention.
Elinalise shrugged her shoulders. "I guess we have no choice." She added.
I fired several wind spells at the Gyphons, starting with the one that bit Aqua's head. While I would've panicked days ago, I am used to this now.
"Mmpphhh!" Aqua shouted as she wiped off Gryphon's blood and spit; as usual, she barely had a scratch. She was so unfair.
I ignored her as I enjoyed shooting at all the Gryphons. With everyone focused on Aqua, it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
"Kyaaaah!" Elinalise shouted as she stabbed some of the injured birds. It was never wise to let monsters survive their injuries; they always come back stronger.
"Is it over?" The quivering man who was hiding asked.
The warriors fighting the Gyphons stood up and approached him. Rising to his feet, the man immediately began shouting at them, "What are you standing around for? You! Get out there and start looking! Who knows what monsters are still around?"
The warrior he'd addressed nodded and immediately ran off. "Good grief, what a disaster," the man muttered. "What on earth was a pack of Gryphons doing all the way out here, anyway? Since that huge lake suddenly appeared in the desert, monsters have been running everywhere."
I pointedly looked at Aqua, who cleaned herself with some water spells in the corner. The man I talked to had a curious expression but looked at me again.
Shaking his head, he turned and approached us with the other two warriors at his side. "Your assistance was most kind, travelers. Allow me to express my gratitude." The man wore a turban and a red robe underneath a thin yellow gown of sorts. There was a small red dot in the middle of his forehead. He had a long, skinny mustache, but it didn't make him look especially imposing. He struck me as more of a timid sort—the very picture of a stereotypical desert merchant, too. That was fine by me.
"Well, it looked like you were in some trouble," I said. "We couldn't just abandon you." I didn't want to say that we only ran towards them because an alcohol-deprived Aqua was running towards town like a teenage boy presented with free beer served by cute girls dressed in maid outfits.
"Most people certainly would have." The man was speaking in the Fighting-God Tongue, so I replied in kind. Fortunately, he appeared to understand me just fine, which was a hopeful sign. "May the blessings of the wind grace you and yours."
With those final words, the man promptly turned and walked back to his fallen companions. Not the most expressive sort, then.
"Whaaaat!" I was proven wrong when the merchant shouted. Aqua managed to heal the two critically injured companions.
"Are you a king-ranked healer? You put Jafar's guts back inside perfectly and managed to put Amalia's head back together." A large warrior girl in her mid-twenties asked Aqua, who looked perfectly normal despite being chewed on by a Gyphon a moment ago.
"Huh? Of course not, I'm Aqua, Goddess of Water, and healing too!" Aqua said in perfectly understandable Fighting-God tongue, of course, this ridiculous girl can speak different languages effortlessly too.
Wait, my Fighting-God language isn't perfect, but did she just claim to be God-ranked in Water AND healing spells? What kind of person is she? Although the way she claims to be a "Goddess of something" rather than a Water God-tier Magician or Healing God-tier Magician.
"If I didn't see you magically fill the huge hole in her head back, I would call you crazy but how do you even claim to be a Water God at the same time?" The warrior girl bluntly asked..
Jafar and Amalia were slowly getting up, looking dazed and confused, while the man with a turban and red robe I talked to looked at that with surprise.
"I don't see mages often in these parts but if this girl is as what she claims to be, would she be the reason why there's a brand new massive lake in the middle of the desert?" He asked me pointedly before remembering something.
"Ah, pardon my manners; my name is Galban. Thanks for your help." He then approached Aqua and said. "Thank you for healing my mercenaries. But first, we need to find our cargo now."
Galban abruptly left us while Aqua skipped back to us with a smile.
"Yes! I got the first members of the Axis Cult here! Too bad their boss wanted them to go find their cargo, but I gave them some signup sheets and instructions for them." Aqua showed us her signup sheet.
AXIS CULT
SIGNUP SHEET
Name:
Gender | Age :
Contact Details :
Profession :
Recruited by :
Today I pledge my heart and soul to Aqua.
"Aqua, these sheets are in Human language; how would your followers even read that?" Elinalise pointed out. "I hope I didn't miss out on anything important, I don't understand the Fighting God tongue."
"It doesn't matter; as long as they write their name on the signature box, they shall be accepted as my followers!" Aqua said imperiously.
I had some questions about just how powerful her healing spells are, and where she learned them, because as far as I know, only Millis has God-level healing spells hidden in their cathedral and libraries. And Aqua was anything but a Millis follower.
I hope she didn't steal anything from them.
"Ugh, it's not like you could enforce it anyway; I guess it's the most they can do when you bring them back from the brink of death," Elinalise said.
"No, I didn't, I used resurrection on them. I pulled their souls back from the void before their god took them away and put them back in their bodies after fixing their damage, of course." Aqua sprouted some top-tier nonsense to explain the high-level spells she's casually displayed.
"Anyway, let's go get beer!" Aqua pulled us with surprising strength towards Bazaar.
The sun was setting, and cast a muted glow in the sky, as the (newly made) lake outside Bazaar kept a constant mist around the areas below Bazaar. People were setting bonfires, and groups sitting around them in carpets, reminding me of a big cherry blossom-viewing picnic.
"Beer, give me beer!" Aqua went towards a carpet filled with large burly men, and two kegs of what I assumed was beer.
"Eh? A beauty like you? Of course, I'd give you some; take as much as you like." The lead man readily invited her, giving her a gaze that a fellow man would know.
"Are we supposed to let her off with those men?" I asked Elinalise.
"Oh well, what's the worst that can happen to her? She could take a Gryphon munching her head; what can four men who overcompensate for their sword rank with the size of their weapons do to her? Besides, she might just be as old as I am, even if it doesn't show. She doesn't seem purely human after all." Elinalise explained, I nodded, considering that someone as ridiculously powerful as Aqua was likely a strange, long-lived relative of the Migurds who turned into Chuunibyos. The Demon continent has a lot of places and ways to learn powerful magic, and she might have learned her spells from them,
"Besides, it seems like she's enjoying the attention." Elinalise gestured to Aqua, who was magically sprouting water from her hand to her foot. While sprouting?! A plant over her head.
I never knew you could create a plant using a spell. Or did she summon it? I spend so much mana transporting even just one tiny thing, and she can summon a whole plant? And for what? Some party tricks?
We got invited to a nearby carpet where a group was preparing a thick bean soup that surprisingly had rice.
Elinalise was supposed to barter her gold ring but was saved when Aqua suddenly appeared with what she claimed to be bottles of holy water.
This reminded me of that Aum Shinri Kyo cult incident when I was a much younger NEET. The crazy cult leader sold his Bathwater for nearly a million yen per bottle.
"This water would make you one of the most desirable men in the world because not only would it make you regain vitality, but it would make your wives and your daughters look stunning and gorgeous. Look at these two adventurers with me; they've been using my water for a week now." Well, Aqua wasn't lying; she did create water like this. Although she bathed in it too, and all the other creatures that drowned in it.
Aqua liberally poured water on the older man, and he ran off with a bow-legged stagger, he looked very happy. The woman behind him lost pimples and acne.
You can imagine how easy it was to get enough meals from them.
I was happy I got seconds; I missed rice.
While I also missed egg and soy sauce, I couldn't find any soy sauce around. Should I raid a Garuda nest for eggs next time? They looked like giant chickens, after all.
"Let's look for an inn." I reminded the two ladies with me.
"Agreed, we should look for a guide to Rapan tomorrow."
Aqua was talking to a couple nearby. The next person I talked to made fun of our ignorance and said we should just set up a place to sleep that night.
I spotted the man selling us our meal, and he told us that people could sleep wherever they wanted.
We took that offer and decided to set up between two large groups. I made a large shelter and even built a private bath at Aqua's insistence.
I would've put a hole in it, but Aqua saw through it.
"Rudeus, why is there a hole in the wall from your room to the private bath? Were you trying to look at my otherworldly beauty? You're such a perverted NEET!" Aqua gave me a well-deserved smack on the head, which gave me a concussion until I healed myself.
Aqua bathed while I was recovering in my room. Elinalise looked like she was considering the bath or going out.
Elinalise was about to look for a man when she remembered Aqua had cured her of her curse.
"Should I risk it? I've been feeling a lot stronger ever since Aqua claimed to remove my curse. It might take another month or so before I see any other man." Elinalise asked me.
"Somehow, I think Aqua's powerful enough to remove your curse; what do you think?" Elinalise's curse would take full effect in a month if we based it off her past, but ever since Aqua cured her, Elinalise has been feeling a lot stronger and without the residual pain in her body.
"I'll give it a chance. Aqua may be an idiot, but she sure seems powerful. Besides, we should be joining a caravan with different men on the way to Rapan just in case my curse kicks in." Elinalise went towards the private bath.
I took a short nap and woke up when Elinalise nudged me.
"Hey, try the bath. It's divine."
I decided to give it a try and slowly went into the private bathroom, taking note that Aqua was already outside, drinking more beer. If she needed to take a leak, I wouldn't let her bother my bath time. She could go outside after what she accused me of earlier.
The bathtub was a lot nicer than I expected. I created a basic one big enough for two women or a tall man. Aqua must have carved the earth around it, turning it into intricate art that Zanoba would love.
Maybe I should introduce them to each other; Aqua looks tough enough to survive Zanoba's affections.
I used a lighter variant of burn in place to heat up the water even further, making a steamy bathroom.
Despite her flaws, Aqua knew how to make a nice bath.
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The next morning, I woke up to screams of "Ant attack!" as an Army of Phalanx Ants descended on the city, hellbent on revenge after I turned their island into lava. Aqua was screaming something about a stupid, lazy NEET, and was that Elinalise and Ghislaine with Sauros?
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Then I woke up for real; I had a pleasant sleep and more decent dreams than whatever that was earlier.
I went to the other side of the divider and saw a nude Elinalise being enveloped by a drooling Aqua wearing fine … Aqua colored pajamas. There was a whole keg of beer beside Aqua, but she smelled nothing like a drunk.
My girl-on-girl fantasies were fulfilled for the day.
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In the morning hours, Bazaar lived up to its name. The whole area around the lake turned into vibrant markets, selling anything from Gryphon claws. "It's for your vitality, sir." All the way to high-end glassware.
Aqua was getting into an argument with a nearby artist, who was painting while selling his other wares. Apparently, she was trying to give him pointers after she spent a large amount of Cinsha on art materials.
Where did she get her money from? I didn't realize I said it loud enough for her to hear me.
She heard my question and replied in human language.
"Simple, I took some of the gold coins you dropped back in the lake, and when I saw their currency, I shaped it to match theirs!" She even had the audacity to laugh at what she did.
Aqua just admitted to forging money and taking some of my gold coins.
"Can you turn some of my gold coins into Cinsha too?" I decided to take advantage of the situation since merchants here didn't care for Asuran currency.
"Sure, let me do it now!" Aqua swiped the ten coins I prepared when I stopped her.
"Idiot! Don't do that here! Go back to the tent, and we can fix it."
It was good that Aqua converted our currency. Thanks to an extra person leeching off our food supplies, the excess Jerky and other food we could've sold here were eaten up.
We still managed to convert 20,000 Cinsha out of the Gold coins magically turned into the appropriate currency, using nothing more than a sharpened dagger and a hammer to reshape gold. I suspect she even used her own fingers to bend it a couple of times.
With our money issue solved, we needed to gather information about Rapan. It was a major city and about a month's journey to the north.
I asked about the road to have an idea of what to expect.
"The usual route is through the Nkots region and takes a long way around the desert, but there's a lot of bandits around, and the new lake that mysteriously appeared flooded a lot of their hideouts; I heard the bandits are even grumpier than ever. The wet bandits, pfft." One passerby told me.
Wet bandits sound a little familiar to me. Was it something from my old life?
"The only road unaffected by the sudden lake would be the Ucho desert; it's far enough away from the lake that the monsters haven't overrun it. It goes through the Kara mountains and then another desert, although it is less brutal than the first one…"
I got a more detailed reply from the man, but it didn't mean anything to me; I didn't know any of the references aside from the lake Aqua made.
My attempt to ask for maps was also luckless since nobody had one for sale.
Elinalise thought we would be able to find a guide quite easily, although her experience didn't apply to her. She often started at the borderlands to build up her experience and network, but in this case, we went straight to the middle of a desert.
Still, we made a journey that normally takes a year in only a week. It was impressive progress.
"What would you normally do in a situation like this?" I asked the two women with me.
"Push straight through on the shortest possible route. To be honest, I'd rather go home as soon as possible." Elinalise answered.
"Yeah, whatever she said. I hate how dry and hot deserts are and how much crap you gave me when I fixed our problems last week. Why can't I make more water in an empty desert anyway? I know you can do some water magic, too." Aqua replied.
"No, Aqua, changing the environment is a bad idea," I explained to her the same way a father would talk to a five-year-old who can change the weather. Wait, why didn't Paul tell me that before? Changing the topic. "Why won't we tag along with a merchant to Rapan?"
"Sounds like a plan. Let's see if we can find one." Elinalise replied.
Aqua tried to argue with me about how she would get weak without water and would shrivel in the heat, and I told her that I'd block her spell the next time she tried something that stupid.
She was as petty as Linia and Pursena, as artistically inclined as Zanoba, and made a joke out of abilities I thought I was good at.
What a mystery.
I knew we had a good chance of finding a caravan to Rapan and working as their guards. I was a Water Saint-tier magician, and Elinalise was an S-rank adventurer. Aqua was a self-proclaimed God-tier magician and healer. Although she was at least King-level based on her incredible feats. She also knew how to shorten spells to a great degree, with her King-level spell reduced to just "Heal!"
Was she as powerful as Orsted? Nah, that's impossible; I never heard of legends of a beautiful blue-haired mage that I didn't make myself.
Unfortunately, only a few merchants were traveling to Rapan that season, which is why we got referred to Galban.
It was a pleasant surprise when we saw the little man and his group of five bodyguards. There were six camels outside his tent.
"My apologies for yesterday, friends! We were surprised that you left by the time we got back."
They spent time tracking down the camels, which fled in the chaos, together with the valuable cargo they carried.
They even made the two recently recovered adventurers search for the camels along with them. Talk about working right after having your guts reinserted.
"It must be fate that you found us like this. Would you care to join my caravan as bodyguards? Recent disturbances have made the route a lot more dangerous."
It made sense that he was hiring more adventurers to escort him, Aqua's new lake caused untold mayhem around the region, and more than once other people around Bazaar complained about it. Although more people were happy that they had more temperate weather and a much larger source of water to their south now.
"How about 500 Cinsha each to Rapan? What do you say?"
He must have been interested in us and our skills from the start. While he was useless in battle, he had money to augment our limited budget.
"Alright, sure. We'll come with you as far as Rapan."
Galban tried to offer us a long-term contract, but I rejected it. I wanted to go home as soon as I could.
We were set and back on track. Even Aqua was talking to the two people she saved yesterday.
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Kazuma Narrator Voice
So Rudeus, Aqua, and Elinalise set off to Rapan as members of Galban's caravan.
While they originally worried about bandits, things took an unexpected turn of events.
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Axis blooms in the desert.
K 423, Ucho Desert, Begaritt Continent
Rudeus Greyrat
This was madness. The first time we saw a group of people nearly dead from monster attacks, Aqua and her new followers, Jafar and Amalia, shouted about Eris padding her chest and restoring them to full health.
I know Eris; no matter what she did to me, she never padded her chest!
Still, these were former bandits who struggled against the monster migration, which unfortunately reached this point. We ended up healing several bandit groups who begged to follow us after signing their souls over to Aqua, and we decided to take them in as long as they provided for themselves. After all, larger groups are safer ones.
Begaritt Buffaloes charged in large groups, while Giant Tarantulas were waging war against Phalanx Ants that had quickly migrated to that part of the desert after their natural habitat was ruined by Aqua.
Succubi and Giant bats were seen fighting against Windmaster Eagles, monsters that could cast wind spells.
Cactus treants and Gyroraptors also made a reappearance.
However, Balibadom, also known as Hawkeye, proved capable of spotting enemies ahead of time, using the demon eye he had. It was similar to the one Ghislaine had, allowing him to see mana around him.
"Slay the monsters! Slay the monsters! For Aqua!" The dumb bandits that joined Aqua's cult were chanting as she blessed everyone in the party.
I appreciated those buffs and continued to fire spells at the approaching horde of Buffaloes; it seems like we're having steak for dinner tonight.
"You're using your spells awfully freely, boy. Both you and that girl Aqua don't seem to care about running out of mana."
I've been a bit careless about my mana expenditure ever since the trek across the newly formed lake made me spend nearly every waking minute casting spells to defeat the waves of monsters around us.
"I should be fine; I can do this all day," I told him.
"I see. You're a Great Sorcerer then," Balibadom told me.
"Well, I wouldn't say I'm a master of anything yet."
Balibadom laughed as he pointed at Aqua, who was somehow dancing around with Jafar and shouting more commands to her followers, who painted their clothes blue.
"I'm glad to have your firepower on our side. Although I wish that blue-haired girl was a little less obnoxious about it. I appreciate her healing, but she's been pushy with her claims of being a Water Goddess and founding a church out of it. Even the Seven Great Powers never made a church of their own, she'd be in big trouble if that large church from the east heard about this."
He made a good point, the Millis church had its influence in most places humans can be found, and I had no intention of making them an enemy. I wanted to talk to Aqua about this, but she had some delusions of being a Goddess herself.
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I spent another night with Carmelita and Amalia, the women from the original party with Galban. They were young, yet carried heavy swords.
They told me about how Succubi turned men into mindless slaves and that women were tasked to kill the Succubi and sleep with the enslaved men to take away the curse.
It was the way of things in the desert. Since it took rare, intermediate detoxification magic to cure men, women were used to this.
Women who got impregnated returned with honor, giving birth to children who were treated well by the village.
However, Aqua's influence interrupted the scene again.
"Members of the Axis cult can just say "Eris pads her chests" in the middle of their sexual activities, and they won't get pregnant. Sign up now for more benefits." Amalia suddenly brought up, showing Axis cult signup sheets written in Fighting-God language.
Seems like Aqua must have bought those art materials for this nonsense.
Although she might have a point.
"Me thinking about Eris is enough to keep Sylphie from getting pregnant." I softly said while making a sour face.
The two girls looked at me strangely, and Carmelita continued.
"This is why I hate mages; all of you are twisted in the head. I'm grateful for your help." Carmelita paused. "But if a Succubus shows up, go to the other women."
Even though I was happily married to Sylphie, it stung a little bit to get shot down in advance like that. Although I could deal with the Succubus thing myself anyway.
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We eventually approached the main regional road. It wasn't as green as the midway point we reached, but it was a welcome relief from the desert sands we walked in.
Balibadom warned us about bandit attacks and even tried to convince Galban to prioritize lives over our cargo, but his concerns were ignored.
"I'm paying you good money, aren't I? Just worry about keeping the goods safe; besides, we have had a dozen more people following us ever since Aqua saved them."
The Axis cultists or Aqua's band of bandits-turned followers tailed our group and showed no signs of deception. While Amalia and Jafar were still part of Galban's band, they viewed their relationship with him as contractual, and they followed Aqua zealously.
Seeing over a dozen people pray towards Aqua five times a day made me feel weird. I heard some prayers, and they were utter nonsense.
"Axis Followers can get things done. And because you can get things done, even if it doesn't go well, it's not your fault! It's society's fault that things don't work out!"
"You can run away from unpleasant things! That doesn't mean you've lost! Because, as they say, "Sometimes running away is winning"!"
"The answer you come to after being in doubt is usually something you'll regret, no matter what you choose! If you're going to regret it anyway, do whatever's easiest for you at the moment!"
We were supposed to take a long route to avoid the ambush, but Aqua's followers decided to run along the main road, bolstered by Aqua's insane pride.
All of a sudden, half of Aqua's followers were riddled with arrows.
"Run!" Balibadom shouted. "We're under attack. They're coming from the sides!"
We were in serious danger and needed to flee for our lives. A large group of bandits mounted on horseback were chasing us, and they were wearing yellow turbans.
Balibadom and Galban were screaming at each other, arguing about fleeing and protecting the cargo and camels, respectively.
It was too late; the camels in front of us were foaming at the mouth.
The arrows were poisoned.
And over a hundred bandits that I could see, and even more hiding around us.
I was about to use Quagmire and deep mist to prepare our escape, but.
"Sacred Create Water!" I heard a loud cry from the back.
"Ruuuuun!" I shouted at our caravan; I knew what would happen.
A massive amount of water flooded the surrounding desert area, leaving our elevated position in the middle of the road relatively safe.
I cast Quagmire to keep them from reaching our elevated positions easily.
But it still didn't stop us from facing attacks from the angry survivors.
"Earth Wall!" I made a large barrier to protect us since there was no way out.
Aqua was screaming outside the earth wall, running around like a headless chicken as she was chased around by furious bandits. The rest of our group was safely hidden behind the wall, and I was thinking about how to rescue our hapless healer.
"Why don't you kill them? You're a powerful mage. I saw your magic!" Carmelita grabbed my robe and pushed me to the wall.
"What are you saying?" I asked before I was interrupted by the others.
I was happy Elinalise defended my non-lethal actions against the bandits, although it meant nothing to Carmelita since Elinalise spoke in the Human tongue.
"It seems that Harimaf recruited other lost bandits to his cause, he never had this many bandits before," Galban commented, trying to change the topic, as he knew some Human tongue.
"But Tont is out there, and he's going to die if this so-called great mage won't do anything to save him. He isn't even willing to kill those enemies to defend his blue-haired friend." Carmelita hit hard. As much as I found Aqua annoying, narcissistic, and plain dumb, she grew on me like a mushroom under a rotten log.
On the other hand, Aqua was amazingly powerful and durable. If she really wanted to, she could easily jump over the earth wall and come here.
"Aqua! Come here, jump inside the Earth wall already." I called her out.
"You asshole! Don't leave Tont behind'' Carmelita whacked me in the head.
"Hey, Rudeus, Carmelita cares about Tont because they had a kid together." Balibadom explained, before Elinalise could react.
"B-but, my followers! I can't just leave them dead! They promised their hearts and souls to me!" Aqua sprouted even more nonsense.
"But nobody can revive the dead! Don't you see how poisonous their arrows are?" I shouted across the earth wall; Tont was stuck outside with Aqua but already had a scratch.
He was going to die unless.
"Heal!"
Of course, Aqua would fix him.
I made a choice. I didn't want to kill those bandits, but I needed to scare their large army away.
I cast cumulonimbus.
The clouds darkened, and the air felt thick. I was stirring the atmosphere to create a very strong thunderstorm. I even made a temporary hole in the wall to drag Aqua and Tont inside.
"Not bad. If you join the Axis cult now, I promise you can make even bigger storms." Aqua suddenly tried to get out of the walls and escape. "Hey! I'm supposed to resurrect my faithful followers! Let me out!"
Our convoy companions couldn't understand Aqua's Human language, but Elinalise did.
"Aqua, as much as I owe you for dispelling my curse, please stop spouting nonsense about resurrecting people; if you promise too much and fail to deliver, it'll only make people distrust you at best or hate you."
"Thank you, Elinalise," I told her. Someone needed to be the responsible adult around Aqua.
"Of course, anything for my grandson and the girl who saved me from my curse."
Your grandson, hmmm.
Elinalise patted me on the shoulders while the storm slowly abated.
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Aqua rushed out of the earth wall as soon as the storm ended. The small body of water she made was slowly sinking to the ground, which means she made less water than last time.
Although the damage my spell caused was catastrophic.
I ignored the bodies on the ground and steeled my heart. I saved our group at the cost of all of Aqua's followers, and even Jafar and Amalia, who were saved from the brink of death by Aqua just days ago.
Carmelita had a change of heart when she saw all the bandits, people I killed. I killed dozens, maybe even hundreds, with my storm, and I felt like I just stepped on an ant nest and flooded it. She respected me, although I'm worried it came with a look of fear too.
Sure, Aqua probably killed a few dozen with her water spell, but my cumulonimbus used her water to make an even stronger storm, and the waves from that combination probably drowned many of the desert dwellers who wouldn't know how to swim.
I know I should feel bad about killing this many people, but I was worried about Aqua. Despite turning over a dozen people into her devoted followers, she gave as good as she got. She played games with them, sang beautiful songs, and made incredible art. In between the nonsensical prayers and questionable morals she was teaching, she was acting like an Idol during a meet-and-greet on a daily basis.
She must be hurt by the deaths of all her followers.
I followed her to the spot where most of her followers died, making a stand at the foot of the path we took. They became bait and drew out the bandits prematurely, giving me enough time to build defenses, but should I be happy her followers sacrificed themselves for our sake? Or at least in defense of Aqua?
Aqua gathered the remains of most of her followers, including Amalia and Jafar. Although two of her followers remained missing in the mess.
I saw her eyes glow as she held the bodies of her dead followers.
"Resurrect," she uttered an impossible spell. There's no way even a self-proclaimed goddess can resurrect the dead; even Orsted only saved me from the brink.
My jaw dropped when half of them stood up, looking healthy and whole, although with large portions of their clothes missing or covered in blood. They started bowing to Aqua and praising her.
"You can resurrect people?!" My heart was pumping when I said that.
"Of course, what kind of awesome goddess would I be if I can't resurrect people? The only people I can't resurrect are those without any remains or those who choose to go to heaven. Although it's much easier to resurrect my followers rather than non-believers. The creator God made his waiting room for the dead so large and empty that I couldn't find him, and I was lucky I found Amalia and Jafar." Aqua continued speaking, ignoring the stupefied faces of Rudeus, Elinalise, and the rest of the party that didn't worship her.
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K 423, Sharia, Ranoa
Kazuma Satou/ Lucie Greyrat
"Aqua, most of the time, when people die, they stay dead," Kazuma said as he flicked a breadcrumb at her.
I interrupted Rudeus's storytelling to explain to Aqua why everyone was shocked at her resurrection spell.
It's been a week since Eris gave me knowledge of all the languages in this world, a fact that surprised everyone in the house since I was technically a three-month-old girl whose growth was fast-forwarded to a one-year-old, and I continued to grow even faster.
"Of course, I know that, but why would stupid rules apply to Goddesses like me?" Aqua scowled as she flicked a stray piece of meat back at me.
"Children, don't fight at the table."
Sylphie and Rudeus were with me as Rudeus and Aqua continued their tales of the first few months I had missed out on since I was in Sylphie's womb.
"I'm not a kid!" Aqua shouted.
"We're almost the same age!" I also replied.
"If we're counting reincarnations, I'm older than you, kid." Rudeus was a lot more sarcastic and fun to talk to once he realized I could talk back and understand him. I was tired of his attempts to treat me like a baby.
"Your age doesn't matter if you keep flicking food at each other like children," Sylphie added, taking the time to mess with my hair again.
Goddesses above, why did you make me a girl?
I heard voices laugh at my expense damnit Amaterasu!
Of course, there was a long argument and a lot of heartbreak and sorrow when Rudeus and Sylphie found out I was a reincarnated soul. At one point, Sylphie even accused me of stealing their child, but Rudeus defended me and admitted to being a reincarnated soul, too. And also hid the fact that he knew I was reincarnated as soon as I was born, thanks to Aqua explaining to him in Japanese.
He also explained his connection to Nanahoshi that way, which made Aqua light up when she heard about her. One of three missing teenagers was found. Aqua hasn't been able to talk to Nanahoshi yet due to other circumstances, but now we just have to figure out where the two other guys went.
Sylphie has been understanding despite the fact that I wasn't exactly her daughter, but it was a hard habit to convince them to call me Kazuma instead of Lucie.
Especially when everyone called me Lucie.
Thanks, Aqua, for nothing. She could've told the others sooner, and I wouldn't have been stuck as a girl.
Now, going back to the topic.
Rudeus and his party were understandably awed at Aqua's display of resurrection magic.
By the time they reached Rapan, the merchant company Rudeus and Elinalise left were full-fledged Axis cult members.
She even appointed Jafar as the pope and Carmelita as her arch-priestess. And yes, both Rudeus and I got the Aladdin reference and joked about how Jafar would have to find a talking bird with him.
Unfortunately, the Axis cultists here were just as crazy as the cultists in Arcanletia.
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K 423, Rapan, Begaritt Continent
Rudeus Greyrat
Rapan was noticeably drier than Bazaar, although it also had an Oasis in the middle.
I guess it's because the labyrinth city was nowhere near the new lake Aqua made.
I still had mixed feelings about Aqua's resurrection magic and her requirement that I join the Axis cult to learn it.
Her power was truly undeniable, but I had no intention of praying to her five times a day and chanting Eris pads her chest.
I get too many bad memories when I think of Eris' chest.
Before her followers parted ways with her, Aqua appointed Carmelita her archpriestess and Jafar her Pope.
I had too many images of the evil arab vizier working as a pope instead of a sultan, but that was the tip of the iceberg of how crazy and unusual her followers were.
Aqua taught Jafar how to use resurrection magic. And when she planned to get a dead animal to resurrect, one of her followers stabbed himself in the heart and offered himself up as a sacrifice.
Jafar promptly resurrected the guy, who got a whack in the head by Aqua.
"Hey! Just because someone can resurrect you doesn't mean you should die all the time. My subordinate would get annoyed at all the times she sends my followers back here."
So Aqua only cares about how her "subordinate in heaven" reacts to the resurrection spell and not her followers killing themselves so blatantly.
Maybe I should ask Hitogami about Aqua the next time I meet him. Or maybe Lord Perugius would know.
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We arrived at the adventurer's guild, guessing that we'd find Paul or Geese around.
The whole place looked like Aladdin; it was very Arabic in flavor.
There was a small minority that dressed up as adventurers from the central continent, S-ranked by the looks of it.
Aqua ran off to the bar at the side of the guild and even started doing party tricks. A crowd was forming around her as her attention-grabbing nature shone.
I was about to call her back when Elinalise pulled me to another side of the guild; a familiar monkey-faced man had just turned away from a beastman.
"He looks a lot more desperate than I remember."
"Oh my, that's how he usually is," Elinalise said.
"Really, I had a different impression of him."
"He must have been trying to act more mature around you. Hey Geese!" Elinalise called out.
Geese turned around and was surprised when he saw us. "Oh hey! It's Elinalise. I thought you'd be the one causing a commotion there." Geese pointed at the crowd of men surrounding Aqua.
"Oh, that's Aqua, our eccentric party member. She keeps calling herself a water goddess, but the stuff she's done has been unbelievable". I spoke up.
Geese was surprised at my voice. I guess I have grown up since I last saw him.
"Oh hey, it's you. You've gotten a lot bigger. But… How the hell did you get here this fast? It's only been six months since I sent the letter. Did you even read it? You probably missed me and went back instead."
"Well, we can talk about that later, Mister Geese."
"Yuck, that gives me the creeps. Just call me "newbie" like you used to."
This exchange sure brought back some memories.
We explained to Elinalise how we met and became friends before Geese led us to the inn where Paul and the rest of our party were staying.
We had to pull Aqua away from the crowd of interested men around her and managed to trick them into paying her alcohol bill.
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Paul stayed at an average inn made for people with a B-ranked budget.
When we arrived at the entrance, Geese warned us that Paul wasn't in a good state right now and asked Elinalise to keep her harsh words to herself.
He also asked me not to start a fight.
Aqua and Geese haven't had anything to talk about yet.
I didn't want to judge people without knowing what was going on, so I'll be a Buddha Rudeus when I meet him.
Paul was flopped over on a table.
"Ah! Master, Lord Rudeus has come." It was Lilia, still wearing a maid uniform. Unfortunately, she also looked tired and frayed.
There was another woman in the room, cloaked in a robe, who shyly retreated when I looked at her. I think she was Vierra or Shierra from Millishion.
Paul slowly woke up; he looked exhausted, not hungover.
After a touching reunion with my father, we caught up and even had a bit of a talk about how Aisha and Norn were. He even got surprised that I married Sylphie and would have a kid soon.
After helping Lilia and Paul clear their guilt over the way they solved Paul's succubus problem, Aqua unfortunately introduced herself at a bad time.
"But if you're also married to her, why should you care? You need not to hold yourself back! Drink when you want, and eat when you want! Because you won't know if you'll be able to eat that again tomorrow! In this case, you're not breaking the law; you can have sex when you want." Aqua didn't read the room.
"I was supposed to hold out until we rescued Zenith. Oh wait, who the hell are you?!" Paul snapped back to full consciousness when he saw the blue-haired girl beside me. He was also surprised when he noticed Elinalise at the corner of the room. "Elinalise?" Paul suddenly had a look of regret on his face.
"I'm Aqua! Goddess of water and the founder of the Axis cult, I'm here helping Rudeus around in his quest." Aqua introduced herself while spouting water from her hands. A rainbow formed in the middle.
So she can do chantless magic after all.
"Well met. I'm Paul Greyrat, Rudy's father. I'll talk to you later after I talk to Elinalise," Paul said as he looked at me.
I tried to look back at him innocently; I was not having an affair with Aqua. Blegggh.
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"Hey! I should be the one disgusted with that thought! Why would I like to have an affair with an old NEET like you? Even Kazuma is less repulsive." Aqua interrupted Rudeus' retelling of the events.
"Hey!" Kazuma and Rudeus shouted.
"I'll take over. Rudeus is making things so boring and slow; what's he trying to do? Tell a bedtime story to perverted children? Oh, wait, Luuuucie over here is a perverted little kid."
I blasted Aqua with a water ball, something I learned how to do chantlessly thanks to Sylphie.
She thought it'd be a good way to bond as mother and … Daughter.
Anyway, Aqua took over the story.
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Rapan, Begaritt Continent
Aqua
After Rudy, Elinalise, and Paul sorted things, we found out that Rudy's old teacher, the one Rudeus, mistook me as being left behind in the labyrinth. How dare he confuse a mere mortal with a Goddess like me?!
I'd never get stuck in a dungeon myself unless it's Kazuma's fault.
Rudeus had some sort of teleportation book that he shared with the rest of the party. It looks like wizards and mages in this world can't cast teleport magic as easily as the ones from my world can.
Paul and Rudy tried to kick me out of the labyrinth exploration group, saying that they could only take five members, but they let me in after I said I could see perfectly in the dark.
Goddess Eyesight really is the best.
We went through the first few floors without a problem at all, and I sure showed everyone since I could see the way perfectly. The rest of the monsters we encountered were also easily dealt with, especially after I cast my blessings on everyone around me.
However, I got stuck with a monkey-man named Geese. He wouldn't stop scolding me for the small missteps I made and wouldn't let me hold the map. Of course, I won't let myself get teleported awaaaaaay…
Kazuma's note: Of course, Aqua got teleported away instead when she stepped on the one particular teleport circle that made her end up with Roxy.
"Geeeeseee!"
I was disoriented for a moment. When I fell into that teleportation circle, I noticed something strange, but I can't remember what it was.
There were a bunch of insects around me. Gross!
I valiantly retreated towards the end of the corridor, my strong legs carrying me to a large cavern.
There was also a bunch of ice around the cavern and a small earth hut at the side. Maybe I can ask for directions from the person inside.
"I don't want to die, please, someone, anyone, help me!" I heard a woman's voice nearby. Oh wait, she's in the hut.
If I rescue her, I bet I can recruit her to the Axis cult just like the rest of my followers from the desert.
"Sacred Create Water! God blow!"
Most of the creatures were flushed out to the teleport circles while the metal spider I punched flew to the ceiling.
I heard a voice, the same woman as earlier.
"Oh, thank God!" She said,
Hey! You should be thanking this awesome goddess.
"Ehem, you mean, thank the Goddess."
"Wh-whut. Eh." A small, blue-haired loli popped out of the fortress; I think she heard me.
Now that I noticed, she stank. I pinched my nose at the smell. It was as bad as swimming in frog slime. Ah! I still have some Axis soap I made!
"Pardon me for my smell; I've been stuck here for a month." The blue-haired loli looked at me.
"Here, take some of my Axis cult soap. I can whip up a small bath for you so you won't stink." I had an opportunity to offer her some of my soap. Anyone who uses it often enough wouldn't be able to resist my divine aura. I know those cute lolis can recruit a lot of members to my church. Cecily-chan and Zesta-kun kept praying for cute loli girls as their assistants when I was in heaven.
"Eh- soap? What's this about an Axis cult? Wait, pardon me. My name is Roxy Migurdia; if you don't mind, may I know your name as well?" This blue-haired loli introduced herself as Roxy. Her name sounds familiar.
"I am the Water Goddess Aqua, founder of the Axis Cult! And I think you need to take a bath. All the monsters around us are dead. Let's find a way to bathe," I told Roxy.
I taught her the virtues and benefits of the Axis cult while she made a makeshift bathtub for us with the same magic her hut was made of. I filled the tub with my finest holy water at a lovely temperature and took a bath with her.
I wanted to remove all the random monster blood and goo around me. The God Blow I made flattened the spider I punched, spraying all kinds of icky crap on myself.
"Are you sure this is safe? Wouldn't monsters wait and attack us?" Roxy asked me.
"Of course not; trust this awesome Goddess. I can even see in the dark perfectly. Besides, if you have been stuck here for a month, maybe you're hungry. Here, have some of my jerky and bread too." I handed some of the supplies I carried in the backpack.
I was a benevolent goddess; that's why all those men from the desert followed me quickly.
Kazuma's Note: Roxy was too tired to argue and seriously wanted to bathe after a month of being stuck in the dungeon.
I even took the time to heal her scrapes and reduce her fatigue.
One of the Gods from my original world once grew an army of followers after multiplying bread and fish and turning water into wine. While that wasn't my power, I knew that feeding a hungry soul is one of the best ways to start getting a loyal follower.
Roxy seemed too tired to complain, and after, she magically made a makeshift pool for us (she had some sort of earth magic, so I barely needed to dig or sculpt anything to make a passable bath pool). We relaxed and soaked in our makeshift bath.
We were interrupted half an hour later by the sound of a thud. Seems like the perverted NEET tried to look at our bodies.
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"You were bathing in the middle of the dungeon?." I asked Aqua. "What kind of useless goddess would go bathe in a monster-infested dungeon after rescuing someone who was tired and delirious from being stuck for a month?"
"Of course! Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and since I'm a Goddess, I need to be clean all the time!" Aqua bluntly replied. "Besides, everything was okay until your perverted father saw us bathe."
"Hey! It wasn't my fault you two decided to strip in the middle of the dungeon and bathe! I even fainted as soon as I saw your naked body!" Rudeus said as he was slapped by Aqua.
Sylphie grabbed both by the ear.
"Hey!" Aqua and Rudy shouted.
"Aqua, Rudy, we have a lot to talk about with Roxy later." Sylphie's voice promised pain, although she went to hug me.
I hate being a small toddler.
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After we brought Roxy back to the inn, it took several days for her to recover. I spent that time trying to teach Roxy about the Axis cult, but she's been a little bit off since I said the Axis cult slays the demons and beats the demon king.
Shortly after she recovered, we went back to the Dungeon. I was a scout together with Geese, while Paul and Elinalise made the vanguard. Talhand, a strange, grumpy dwarf, was in the middle, while Rudeus and Roxy were in the rear.
It was easy dealing with those mud skulls and golems, which were easily washed away by water magic. It seemed that I saved Roxy a lot of time and mana since she only focused her efforts on freezing the enemies I flooded with water.
We went back up after exploring a floor lower and that's when the fun began.
Talhand called a meeting between the mages, which included Me, Roxy, and Rudy.
The best part is it involved drinking.
That grumpy dwarf sure knew how to drink, and while he was talking to us about what makes a man, a man.
Maybe I could convince him to join my cult. He might make a fine brewmaster for my church.
The next day, we went deeper into the labyrinth, and my skills as a Goddess were shown to all.
We faced a demon called the Devouring Devil, and my turn undead spell quickly turned them to ashes. It didn't matter how many tried to rush me when the rest of the party was able to attack them.
Kazuma should learn how to make himself useful like these people.
Geese and Roxy looked a little sickly, but I assumed it was from the rapid pace we set down the dungeon. I should lead the scouting, not the mean monkey-man.
We went down to the sixth floor and found many spider eggs. I flooded their nest, and Rudeus boiled it. This was an effective way to keep the monsters from spawning.
After going through that part of the floor and avoiding the three teleport circles that were all traps, we ended up facing the boss monster at the bottom of the labyrinth.
It was a Hydra.
I quickly blessed the party members as I took a valiant stand as a support.
Kazuma's notes: I think that means Aqua was "valiantly" cowering behind Rudeus and frantically casting blessings and healing spells all over the battle.
The Hydra had a cheat code. It blocked all sorts of magical attacks while also keeping us away from Rudy's mother, who was encased in the crystal. Its heads also regrew after it was destroyed.
But I remembered something; oh yeah, my friends from the Greek God division mentioned how their hydra problem was dealt with back then.
"Rudy, burn the necks after the heads get cut off; it won't regrow again!" I helpfully shouted.
Paul was blurring around, cutting the head off the neck of the hydra. Rudy started casting fire spells to close the wounds.
"It's super effective!" Rudeus announced.
Of course, why would I lead them astray?
The battle was getting more heated as the Hydra kept injuring the people around me.
"Heal! Heal! Heal!" I kept curing the different scratches and stab wounds this party had; it was the most I could do since water spells didn't do much against a Hydra.
Except when they were spitting fire.
"Create water!" I blocked the flames from the remaining heads of the Hydra! Three heads worth of fire, and all that made was a thick cloud of steam.
A normal mage would've faltered against Dragon Fire.
But I was a Goddess.
We beat the Hydra after a difficult fight, but it wasn't without serious injuries.
Rudy lost his hand, and where was Paul… oh.
Paul's lower body was missing. But I could fix it.
I ran to the side and saw Rudy run toward his father.
"Resurrect!"
Somewhere in the void
"Mister Paul? Paul? Where are youuu?" I peeped inside this world's afterlife. It was awfully empty and pretty dark.
The Creator God was such a slob. Where does he bring the souls of his dead people?
"Creator God? Where are you? I need to get Paul's soul back!" I shouted into the void.
I spent a lot of time running around the endless void. The labyrinth looked different here compared to the other places I resurrected people.
"I am not one of those junior goddesses you can just ignore. Get your NEET self out of whatever hiding place you're in! I swear if I get my hands on you…"
It wasn't this hard to find Jafar and Amalia's souls, even when they weren't bound to me as Axis followers. I bet this labyrinth was interfering with my connection to this world's afterlife.
Nothing…
Back in the labyrinth
"Aqua, did you resurrect my dad?" Rudy looked at me with teary eyes.
Paul's lower half regrew, although I wasn't able to restore his clothes.
Rudy covered the lower half with his cloak to preserve Paul's modesty, but I was also disappointed in myself.
"Rudy, I don't know how to say this but. Your father is alive, but I can't find his soul. If he chose to go to heaven, my resurrect spell wouldn't be able to restore his body. But he didn't answer my calls, nor did the creator god show up to hand him over." I explained to the silent group.
I knew Roxy had questions about my resurrect skill but I couldn't get over how I failed.
A head goddess? Failing to resurrect someone, If I get my hands on whoever is running this world's afterlife, I would teach them a lesson.
Oh, and I also broke whatever curse turned Zenith into a mute.
It seems like she now has the ability to read people's minds.
K 424, Sharia, Ranoa
Kazuma Satou/ Lucie Greyrat
And that is how Aqua got to meet my new family.
Paul was still kept in stasis in the basement, Aqua was trying to find Paul's soul every other night while Zenith and Lilia stood watch with her.
Nobody blamed Aqua for her failure to restore Paul's soul in his body since nobody even expected that she'd keep him alive somehow.
Aqua regrew half a person's body, which was the pinnacle of healing magic in this world. I guess I took Aqua's healing skills for granted.
Roxy eventually explained to Aqua why she was uncomfortable with the Axis cult.
She was a demon herself, although Aqua said that the only demons she truly hated were the ones that were destroyed by holy magic. Aqua said that Migurds were probably descended from pure demons, but are so diluted that they're basically more human than demon.
Kinda made sense, and Roxy got closer to Aqua when Aqua loudly supported polygamy, as long as everyone involved was happy.
Now, I have two mothers and two grandmothers at home.
Talk about an unconventional family.
I also had two aunts, a father, and a comatose grandfather. Aqua offered to try to Resurrect Sylphie's parents, but all that got was a slap in the face and an angry response about how insensitive she was.
I was in a household full of women, but I wasn't the one with a popular phase.
When I get back to Belzerg, I swear I'll restart my popular phase and make a harem that these Greyrat men would be proud of.
But first, we have a wedding to go to.
My Great-Grandmother Elinalise is marrying her fiance Cliff.
I guess I have a new step-great-grandpa?
AN: We're off to LN 13; the real fun begins once we hit LN 14.
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A case of mistaken identity Part 2
K 423, Sharia (Several months before Kazuma's reincarnation)
Eris/Chris
*Slink*
A squelching sound was heard as Rugen's arm disconnected from his body.
I was too strong for the North-Saint. The creator god here must be too lenient with his divine power output in this world; it's even worse than the random artifacts Aqua-Senpai left around all over my world.
"Oops, wait, let me fix that." While my heal was nowhere near as powerful as Aqua-Senpai, it was still good enough to fix something as minor as this.
"Heal!" I reattached his arm and apologized.
Rugen was frozen in fright and pale beyond what blood loss he would've sustained.
"Miss Eris! I didn't know you could cast shortened magic too… oh, no." A short boy, wait, no, he looked like a teenage part-halfing approached me.
"How dare you steal the identity of Miss Eris Boreas Greyrat!" The young man accused me.
"Hey! I never claimed to be an Eris Boreas Greyrat! I was always named Eris!" I pointed out to the man. "Why do people keep mixing me up with that other girl? I'm here to build a legend for myself!"
I threw some coins randomly around the crowd and cast Lurk to disappear from them.
I took Rugen's wallet. After all, he owed me big time.
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