Chapter2: Caxne’s Start

“As expected… He's still a fucking pedosheath…”

Those were the first words Caxne has heard after she was teleported from the Blade’s realm.

It seems that the woman with an average face, beautiful white curved horns and sharp long ears was the one talking.

From the aura of power exuded by the woman even a little kid like Caxne would know she is a goddess.

“Know grampy, do you? O’great goddess...”

Caxne asked the woman as she unconsciously did her puppy eyes.

“So you wanna hear a story, Lil’one? Dontcha worry, it'll be short.”

“Learn more about grampy, Caxne would like to!”

Upon seeing Caxne’s infectious smile, she smiled for the first time in a few decades.

“First, there’s this stupid excuse for a goddess… She gave the strongest metaphorical sword she made to a mortal she fell in love with. The sword you see, can cut any bastard up as long as the user had the will to hold the handle. Those bastards include taxes, spirits, ideas and physical entities.”

And she laughed, looking down on the goddess.

“Grampy’s mistress, Is she?”

“Yeah, pedosheath served the sword but before that, the sword continued to exist even after its original owner has bit the dust. With that, those lazybones- I mean chief gods, they decided to use the sword as a gift for heroes. They already stopped doing it now though. It seems some other god or something took the ownership of it.”

“Mhhmm…”

Bobbing her head, the little girl listened more closely to the goddess’ story.

“Then came the main issue: the handle is generated from the soul of the user to allow them to wield it but the blade was not replaced since its creation. Therefore every time it was passed on, the blade grew more and more uncontrollable due to the curses it collected from its enemies throughout its lifetime.”

“Saving the day, grampy came!”

“No… That time that sheath wasn't a pedosheath, he was a chuunisheath... He removed only the positives while keeping the negatives to sharpen the edge to a frightening degree... That time, it could cut even gods y’know.”

“So?”

“They searched for methods to weaken the sword because it might destroy Gaia but they can't. And that's where I come in: I gave pedosheath the capacity to feel love towards the sword and so he groomed the sword like a doting parent.”

“Grampy grampy, goddess made! Quite a shock, that is.”

“So yeah… The sword always take the form of a little girl for some reason so it's no wonder that sheath became a pedosheath… Every now and then, he requests me to reincarnate little girls like you. I have no choice…”

“Why? More powerful than grampy, goddess is!”

The goddess’ expression abruptly twisted.

“Listen here, kid… That guy will stop doing his duty if I neglect his request and I might be dethroned as a deity if it is known that my solution to our previous problem is not permanent. It was very troublesome rising up from the lesser spirit ranks!”

“To me, that reminds… In Caxne’s recollections, Why grampy change? First, grampy is mage. Then, grampy is butler. Finally, grampy is grampy.”

“He is a metaphorical being after all so he doesn't have any physical appearance like we do. He shows up as the symbol of loyalty and devotion so to me he looks like a friendly neighborhood healer. He was a savage dwarven craftsman on his chuuni days though...”

“Are you, what kind of goddess?”

With a twirl, the goddess striked a pose.

“Glad you asked, I'm the goddess of love! Since I'll be dropping you off to the world, tell me what would you want when you're going to Gaia?”

“Nothing?”

Caxne said cluelessly. With that, the goddess flashed a very exploiting grin.

“Can you be my saint then? You will be able to use the power of love!”

“Caxne will be sent safely, As long as.”

“You will start in one of my forgotten temples so don't worry!”

“Okay!”

We are quite deep into the underground ruins and we have found a very fascinating temple of a forgotten god.

I could sense that this one would be relatively safe to raid.

From the murals’ carvings, I could tell that it belonged to the god of love but her face is quite average. I wonder why so that? Let's read more…

‘On the time of great strife, she, the most forgettable goddess has awakened her power of love and reunited the primal god couple. After giving the gift of love to the great gods, she knew it would be the key to unite everyone and so she gave love to3 all creatures on Earth.’

Hahahaha!!! She made love and she's only a matchmaker! Other love deity statues are much more expensive and hers are just antiques, kinda reminds me of myself.

I am very average but I have great subordinates that led me to B rank...

Anyways, from the temple entrance, there was nothing found besides some useless valueless stuff. We came here for the treasure yanno!!

“Era! I found a sealed door! I think it’s the treasure room.”

Looks like Euki already found the treasure chamber, newbies sure grow fast, it brings a tear in my eye.

“IT’S A JACKPOT BOYZ!!! Gather over to where Euki is!”

We gathered before a heavily magic fortified door. Why did the Ancients would have to make raiding the ruins so difficult?

“So this is the door huh…”

“... Boss Era, the key…”

Kistu handed me the master key for doors like this, a portable battering ram made up of antimagic material. This little baby has already busted down over a thousand doors on all of our expeditions.

I adjusted the size and weight of the ram and it’s good to go!

Euki, Kistu, Amdal, John, Van and me lined up.

“1, 2, 3… lift.”

Good... Now, to the difficult part: we must move all in sync to break down this door.

“Ready. 3, 2, 1… Let’s…”

““““““BREAK IT!!!””””””

“What in the actual fuck, Euki? It’s already hard lifting this thing and you moved out of sync...”

Nope, my mind has changed… Euki is still newbie explorer.

“Sorry!!!”

“Shit… If you drop it, I’ll KILL YOU!”

BOOM!

The door suddenly bursts and stone fragments pelted all of us.

From the door, emerged a girl with a black gauntlet…

I know this feeling… This is killing intent but this amount is very irregular!

WHAT HAVE WE AWAKENED?

After talking with the nice lady, Caxne was teleported to a dark room.

“Caxne, Where is?”

Caxne feels cold… Looks like Caxne is naked. Tehe…

Caxne activated Onmo Odblo and the dark room becomes red and she can see now. As expected of Caxne… She's a genius!

Then Caxne used Onmo Odblo along with Nsu Yssab to create clothes. Caxne made the dress she wore on grampy’s place because it's so comfy.

Caxne looked around the room and see the altar with a booby statue of the nice lady. On the wall at the opposite of nice lady’s statue, the door is located.

“... Door… Break it!!!”

Suddenly, the door shook. There are people behind the door because Caxne has heard them and they tried to break the door.

“Sorry!.. I'll kill you!!!”

Did you hear it too? Hahaha! Who is Caxne talking to anyway? She’s not a crazy girl, hahaha...

Speaking of killing, Caxne thinks that they could be a good reference for her first novel.

Caxne will write many stories then show all her books of those to grampy!

With a flick from Nsu Yssabs’ combat form, Caxne easily broke the door like it was nothing.

Outside the door are six people with various equipment. Most of them are armed but they aren't ready to face Caxne.

Hahahaha! At this rate, Caxne could easily kill them all without Nsu nor Onmo. Wait… Didn't Caxne receive something from the nice lady?

She thinks it was the power of loaf or something… Caxne thinks this is a perfect chance to show off the nice lady’s power!

Caxne activated something other than Nsu nor Onmo and a stick appeared. A very mysterious energy she has never seen flowed out of the stick.

If Caxne shoots the energy at them, she wonders how would they all die. She bets they would be blasted to nothingness!

The beam hits all of them and most of them dropped to the ground. Did they all die?

“... What is this warm fuzzy feeling?”

“Alyssia!! I'm sorry!!!! PAPA WON’T LEAVE YOU!!!!”

“I miss you…”

“I actually love you, Euki!”

“Sorry, I'm actually into girls.”

“Haa… Haaaa… Cute!”

What happened? Loaf happened!!!

This loaf is so powerful! This power can disable anyone and Caxne can exploit that opening on many ways. Thank you nice lady!

“Upon my power of loaf, feast your eyes! Given to me by the nice lady, this is a saint’s blessing.”

“So this… Is love?”

The leader man spoke as he slowly rose and just stood unsteadily there.

So it was love, not loaf… Caxne will keep it in her mind. Love disables anyone so it is one of the best choices to accompany a lethal method on an assassinations.

It seems to have a brainwashing effect so let Caxne test it on them...

“Saint of love, I am. To the nearest village, bring me!”

“I think we could take you there…”

There’s also that man suffering mentally. So this love can have various effects to different people…

If Caxne can control its effects, it might be the deadliest power that existed! Caxne could control cripple people for life, torture people with it or even control a continent from the shadows!!!

Message from the Editor:

I joined Hazey as a PR to improve on my worldbuilding and plot generating skills by editing his work. It has been fun and stuff but the greatest perk of being his editor is the early releases! I feel like a premium user but there are also downsides (slightly bad grammar).

I only made my side chapter (or fanfic) to play around the side characters I find quite likable in his series and practice my writing skills of course (writing a story with a template is way easier than building everything by yourself).

I know that Hazey would want my chapters be published on his page but I personally think that it should be the decision of the readers whether they would want to see my fanfic.

PS. I asked Hazey to comment on anything non-canon stuff I put on my fanfic so this is canon the the Dark Chronicles univer- I mean Gaia! This story won’t affect the main story in any ways besides comeo appearances.