《[Second Saga]》Chapter 93: Bread Of Friendship
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The first of your 3 chapters today.
After hearing Porkto’s word Hydra was momentarily unable to reply. He couldn’t decided whether he should just flip out 9,999 pieces of bread and rock Porkto’s world, take out a single piece or just take the small bite out of the current piece of bread. After all this decision could possibly affect his future. Why did he think it would affect his future? Well for one he was Hydra. Two he had the luck stat. And three somehow he managed to meet this pig again after so long and after so many random coincidences.
With such a situation he would be an idiot to think it wasn’t possible to happen again. As such Hydra was carefully thinking about his decision. While hydra was thinking Porkto was watching patiently, looking for any twitch or movement that would allow him to further understand Hydra’s current mindset. Although they worshipped the Bread God as well Porkto was not the type to force his brothers and he could only try and sway Hydra’s opinion slowly if he decided to deny the baptism now.
In the room of two, Pan was currently waiting outside as even he wasn’t allowed inside, two unique pigs were thinking of their own plans. Both were thinking of the future. After a few more minutes of silence Hydra was finally able to make a firm decision on what to do. As such Hydra immediately opened up the menu, luckily he could do it with just a thought and didn’t require him to awkwardly move his hooves around. To Porkto this reaction didn’t seem like anything other than a few quick movements of Hydra’s muscles, but when he saw what came after the movements his manly snout twitched uncontrollably. It was so uncontrollably that he even snorted! It must be known for him, the King, to snort was only possible if the situation in front of him was impossible or a miracle!
The miracle causing object in front of him was naturally done by Hydra. The object itself was a piece of 1 copper bread. Cheap and hard. It was by no means a luxury food, it also wasn’t overly tasty. But the moment it was taken out, Porkto was unable to control his emotions and roared out in happiness to Hydra.
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“Shadow! Where did you get such a magnificent piece of bread? It radiants pureness and I can even smell the freshness as if it had just been born to this world!”
Hearing the over exaggerated words, Hydra couldn’t help but think this guy was nearly as crazy as the rest of his companions, however he didn’t show any obvious reactions and only softly spoke out in response to Porkto.
“Porkto! As you know I am able to turn into a human through illusion magic. It is easy for me to acquire such a sacred object!”
“Oh… Oh! My brother! You must become our sacred priest!”
Ding!
You have been offered to become the priest of the [Piglet]! Do you accept?
YesNo
‘....Ah what the heck. I’ ve gone this far with bread I might as well see it to the end.’
When the menu appeared Hydra couldn’t help conflicted for a few moments, but because he started it he couldn’t help but think he might as well finish it. After all he was already leading one bread cult what was another one? Specially that it was an army of pigs! With a flick of his mind he pressed the yes button and responded to Porkto.
“Yes, it would be my honour!”
“Good! Good! Very Good! With you here Shadow, our power will rise and we can even spread the name of the Bread God to those who are ignorant! As for those non-believers they can only be drowned in bread until they submit!”
‘Woah. That’s vicious but somehow it sounds kind of badness is a weird way.’
For some reason the method of torture sounded pretty cool to Hydra. Although it was by no means effective who wouldn't think drowning someone in bread was cool? It was after all a pile of bread that someone would suffocate inside of. Hydra didn’t think of the actual details of the method of torture but hey thinking too deeply sometimes ruined the creativity of the situation. Thus he didn’t decided to dwell on it and finally grabbed the piece of bread with his mouth and throw it over to Porkto when a unexpected situation happened.
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Hydra was inside of his new body as a pig and still didn’t perfect the miniature actions of slight pressure namely the amount of force he applied to his jaw when he threw the piece of bread. Instead of throwing the entire piece, it was split in half and half stayed in his mouth. The other half just so happened to arrive at Porkto perfectly, and Porkto worried about the bread tried to catch it with his mouth. But when he did he accidentally swallowed it whole!
At first both Hydra and Porkto were disappointed but the next moment a window popped up in front of Hydra changing his mood entirely!
-Ding!
Miracle! [Share The Bread Share the Love] Has been invoked!
When sharing a piece of bread among beasts or animals it is possible to tame them!
Ding!
A new mount has been registered for the use of the human form of Hydra!
Mount: [Crimson Piglet]
Name: Porkto
‘No way….’
“Oh! What a wonderful feeling! My brother whenever you are fighting as your human form together we will be undefeatable!”
Was how Porkto responded from the current situation. Although Hydra was unsure if Porkto truly knew what had happened instead of being led on by the system it seemed that he was becoming his mount willingly. Although it wasn’t the most valiant of mounts, it was came with an entire army of pigs behind him. What other kind of mount could bring such a fearsome force with it?
Naturally Hydra knew it wasn’t as simple as that. But he did learn something new and that was that sharing bread with animals could tame them! As such with no need to go threw the baptism because Porkto already knew Hydra was a believer he was let go, and Hydra rushed out the door. Seeing Hydra rush out all of a sudden Pan couldn’t help but tilt his head in confusion but soon followed after him. Hydra’s destination? Naturally was where all most pigs were located!
When Hydra arrived, he immediately started to yell to get their attention.
“Listen fellow brothers and sisters! I hear have numerous pieces of Sacred Bread that I wish to share with you all! Come! I am the Priest of the Bread Order! Come share with me!”
“Really?!”
“OH! I knew he was so amazing! To become the Priest after only a day! Ah! I just want to intertwine with that swirly tail of his!”
Numerous chatter started amongst the pigs, however it wasn’t nearly as many as the amount of pigs that rushed forward. There were currently thousands of pigs and luckily for Hydra he had thousands of pieces of bread! Pig after pig, Hydra continued to share bread with them. The nice part about being a pig, was that he could eat like one as well. No matter how full he was the satiety bar would not prevent him from eating anymore food! He could continue to share with the pigs all he wanted and that was exactly what he did!
After numerous windows popped up of Hydra the pigs becoming his friend, after registering Porkto as his first mount he couldn’t get another mount but instead he became ‘friends’ with them. Although he was unsure of the exact meaning on befriending them, he knew that they would now be more willing to follow him. Naturally Hydra had in just a single day been placed in the most important place of their hearts. Even more so than Porkto. Although Porkto himself was watching instead of envy he was the pig that was currently the happiest. After all the bread he worshipped was being handed out to all his subjects. A touching sight that nearly made him shed a tear.
It was at this moment that Hydra’s power had risen to a level a level so high that no one could understand except for the pigs around him. Although it wasn’t Hydra intention originally to become this powerful, after following numerous his one true path, how could he not accept it now that it lied in front of him? As such even his previous bread followers would only be able to look on dumbfoundedly. After all this was the start of Hydra becoming the one and only Pigperor!
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