Glauc was in a quandary. He was facing an ancient goddess, one rather famed for her wrath, and she was about to devour him alive. Well, metaphorically devour him. Actually, more like, sexually.

Luna just woke up and had a serious case of the horny bug. Problem was, Glauc did not have much divine force to initiate the acts she expected from him; the act of ejaculation for a male god not only released a certain liquid substance but also his divine force. (Divine birth obviously needed a divine... emission to start with.)

I.E. The act of cumming would literally mean death to Glauc in his current state.

Of course, not satisfying Luna would probably create a fate worse than death in Glauc's mind. Glauc would have never believed it if he had been told that in his life he would be presented an opportunity of a death by snu snu.

Having not much choice, Glauc decided to satisfy Luna by a method he rather abhorred; physical foreplay. He pulled down her pajama pants and was instantly amusemed as he only noticed NOW that the carpet matches the drapes. During all the intercouse he had it had not registered even once in his mind. Love is blind?

He planted his head between her legs and started using his tongue to impossibly twist and reach at the forbidden fruit. That got a response from Luna. She shivered and moaned out scandalously. "Did you just use your tongue to... That's DISGUSTING!"

Glauc stopped and looked up between her legs to instantly have his face shoved back in by Luna. "MORE! Lick me you pervert! DEFILE ME!"

Gods were rather simple when it comes to certain acts and apparently used the proper body parts for their intended purpose and oral sex was never even considered. It was almost blasphemous to use a body part for something it was not intended to. Luna, however, was a goddess of the night and 'forbidden' things was part of her domains. Then again, she was probably was just a pervert.

Glauc slowly licked up, continuing to also use his fingers to caress her until his tongue went past her stomach, before her neck and finally to her ear. He whispered to her before giving her earlobes a bite "Oh i can think of a few ways to defile you..." Which instantly made her orgasm. Her whole body shook and actually she released a shock wave that knocked down all the furniture and toys in the room. Glauc then took a furry towel and tied her hands behind her back, then blindfolded her with a handkerchief. He gave her a passionate kiss which almost gave Luna another orgasm but he pulled out at the last minute. Luna was too lost in her pleasure to coherently speak and merely panted a few words. "Why... Stop... Please..."

Glauc gave an evil grin. He just discovered a way to control Luna. "Why should i continue... I have to help Ryu and the champions with the undead... I'm quite a busy guy you know..."

"NO! Don't bother with them! Me first! I'll teach you later! Me first!" Luna was rewarded a tongue twisting kiss, on her second 'lips', which surprised her due to being blindfolded. The orgasm was enough to knock her out. Glauc was quite pleased to discover that she was easily satisfied. You just had to do something quite perverted by her standards, which to Glauc was quite normal. Just very tedious and not a lot of fun...

Unfortunately after all the acts he was suffering from pretty much blue balls.

This is why he hated foreplay. He always had such a natural talent at pleasing the other party so much so that he was left to deal with himself alone for many times. There were even times that prostitutes refused payment and demanded he pleasured them instead. Luckily, his wealth had allowed him the privilege of earthly pleasures without too much work i.e. finding new prostitutes that were willing to do the act without any foreplay.

Luna did not seem to be someone he could pay with cash though.

Luna woke up a few seconds later and asked him. "You look unhappy. Whatever is the matter?"

"I'm glad you enjoyed the foreplay but i don't have enough divine force to.. cum without dying..." Glauc winced. Being a god did come with some strange disadvantages.

"Mmm. You poor thing... What's your main domain?" Luna was in a predictably good mood. Her skin had taken an extra shiny gloss and enhanced her rather pale exterior.

"Eh? Domain? Oh that thingamagic. Erm gravity i think. Yeah. I'm sure its gravity. Probably." Glauc produced a tesseract to show Luna.

She grabbed it and began poking at it from certain angles.

"Your comprehension of gravity is too low. You barely produce enough divine force a week to cum once." Luna showed a nonchalant face as she quantified divine force in cums.

Glauc thought to himself. “Imagine shouting Your friends would probably end up thinking that you had some bestiality kink… like Luna…wait a minute…”

"Hehe. Cum." Glauc could not control himself and let out a giggle. Despite his age, he can be immature at times. His small outburst only garnered a wry smile from Luna before she informed him "You know that's how gods quantify divine force right? By the fuckloads." Glauc's giggles soon turned to full bellied laughter and it was a while before he could normally converse.

"Heheh. Pfft! Ahahaha. Sorry. Huuuuuhh. Wow. Sorry... Anyways, my comprehension of gravity is low? Isn't it like, a warp in spacetime or something like that?" Glauc had once watched a video on gravity and is now an armchair physicist. That he had frequently failed his math and science classes in school did not matter much to him.

"Close. Problem is, do you even know what spacetime is? Or how it's warped? Remember that physics is merely one side of the universe. You can't explain everything with your limited Earth knowledge. Here. This should help you." Luna produced one of her domain, a snow globe, but the inside was of a rainy beach and a stilted wooden hut. She tossed it at Glauc.

He took it and absorbed it without much hesitation. A flood of knowledge filled his head. "Huh. Tides. Whoa. My gravity domain is expanding!"

"Yep. Having similar domains complements. Try reading a few books on gravity and tides. And while you're at it read about space and planets too. You've been to a library yet? You can read books for free. Sort of."

"Okay my dear!" Glauc gave a peck on Luna's cheek and headed for the library. She waved him goodbye and a few minutes later picked up a rotary phone by the bedside and called a friend. "Aphrodite! How are you? I just discovered something really special. It's called foreplay..."

On the way to the library Glauc suddenly shivered. He felt like something really really ominous just occured.

***

Glauc was pondering on whether to tell Ryu that the citizens of Nugaia were unable to have children unaided was because the citizens were actually rotting pieces of some kind of cursed soul god law hybrid abomination. On one hand, Ryu was a good friend and he hated hiding such a crucial secret from him, especially as the secret could aid him in his 'holy quest'. Then again, Ana was also on the boat, and her patron goddess, Maat, was bad news.

Maat had earlier intercepted Glauc and Dino chatting about 'gates'. Apparently Dino was one of the few gods that knew about Min's cursed form and he even quoted, "Why did you think I'm always drunk?"

Maat overheard their conversation and immediately tried to interrogate them on what the 'gates' the two drunkards were talking about. Her dislike of Glauc was immediately apparent because his relatively dishonest nature was at odds with her domain of 'truth'. Glauc responded to her aggressive behavior by giving her false tales of a guy named gate that farted perfumes. Disgusted more by the blatant lie than the juvenile jokes, Maat had stormed off in a hurry to Dino's amusement.

It was fortunate Glauc was reluctant to tell her anything. Dino immediately told Glauc that if he had told Maat of the gates and what lied beyond, she would have assembled a pantheon to kill Min and the denizens of the mortal plane. A cursed god was considered one of the most vile beings for some, especially those that valued purity and holiness. And Maat was definitely in that camp.

Glauc decided to tell Ana that he was unable to give her a quick power up. "Maat is a bitch. There. I said it. The first thing she called me was a lying sinful trash. Can you believe that?"

"Yep." Ryu answered in a deadpan voice. "You're totally a lying sinful trash..."

"Well heh. Fuck you. Who insults someone they met for the first time? That's just rude." Glauc actually laughed at Ryu's comeback. "Anyway sorry Ana. If i modified her artifact she's probably gonna be really offended and make my life miserable. But i can give you hints! Probably. Your skills and how it works can be abused. Primarily with the knowledge that its closer to the truth that she's more like a goddess of PERCEIVED justice and truth. Magical word being ‘perceived’. Use that information how you will~

Now who's next? Sheila! Chosen of Wadjet! Did not meet her yet. Read about her though! Apparently goddess of avengers and empress. Cool stuff. Interesting artifact she gave you. Eye of Ra. Two functions. One type to... ignite the air i think? Or fire control? I need a closer look. And one to be uhh... more persuasive to humans? Holy shit thats like a mind control drug!" Glauc reached out to Sheila's eye but hesitated and stopped his hands in the air, his curiosity to find out more about the artifact put out by the fear of offending Wadjet. He had enough troubles to think of for now. Another offended god would suck. "Umm. I'll try to find Wadjet later. See if she's ok with me helping you and stuff. Gods are pretty sensitive about the whole champions thing."

"Courage." Jane thought out loud.

"What?" Glauc looked at her.

"Courage. That's what i truly need. To survive in this world i mean. I can't freeze up everytime a monster pops up. Sooner or later it's gonna get me killed. Can you bless me with bravery? You're a god now right?" Jane inquired.

"So... You chose wine? You wanna be constantly drunk?"

"Just slightly tipsy I guess. Enough to make me fight monsters but not too much that i can't aim and think properly."

"Uhh... Lemme try something..." Glauc took out Dino's domain, now his, and dipped his finger in the wine. Then he stirred it. And put the domain away. "Nope. Not really sure how to do that. I can enchant your container to slowly transform mana to wine. Then you drink it and get drunk? That work?"

He was met with a disapproving stare from Jane.

"What? I'm new to this god thing! Not like it comes with a tutorial! So i guess I can't do courage. For now. I'll ask Dino later. See if he knows something that can help."

"What does the tide choice give? She can summon a tsunami?" Ryu asked. Glauc summoned a glass globe and shook it. Then he sniffed it. And he looked at Jane before saying "With my current divine force, i can make you a better surfer. Which is useless for fighting undead. Yep. Wow. I totally need more divine force. Ryu, want a sidequest? Help me get more divine force and I can in turn help you better. Probably."

"Please tell me the gravity choice is good?" Ryu asked on behalf of Jane.

Glauc scratched his stomach and grinned. "Yeah I'm pretty confident of this one. I can make a blessing that will increase your weight. You can jump then stomp your enemy flat!"

"Rejected" the three girls replied in unison.

"Aw geez you guys are really demanding you know? Fine. I'll ask the other gods for help. In the meantime you guys can learn more about Nugaia." Glauc opened a big chest which was filled with books. "Encyclopedias, monster compendiums, city maps and training manuals. And lots more. Just remember to tie this boat to the harbor. I told the villagers that only you guys can access it so it's also useful as a makeshift inn. Don't take anything ashore. It's all made of divine force. Eventually poofs in the mortal plane."

Glauc then took Ryu's polespear and launched it into the water. He caught a salmon like fish with it. Grinning with confidence, fish in hand, he jumped into the water. Well, on the water. The surface acted like a solid floor as Glauc landed face first into it. The sound from the impact was truly painful to hear.

"To heaven? Please?" He groaned as the impaled fish was flopping around his face. Next he screamed like a little girl in a horror show as a gigantic sharp jaw made of water swallowed him, bringing him to who knows where.

***

Ryu groaned as he noticed that the girls already started reading and charging notes with one another. They seemed too accepting of Glauc's mode of transportation. Plus, he was never the academic type.

"Yoohoo~! You guys alright in there?" Jill shouted at the current occupants of the boat. "Its dinner time!"

A head popped out of a trapdoor on the roof of the boat. "Dinner? Wow how long were we in here?... Wait... You guys wanna continue reading?" Ryu rolled his eyes. The three ladies were still exchanging notes with one another, books and parchments sprawled out and barely lit by candle light. "Yeah. Yeah. I'll wrap something for you once I'm done eating. Good luck with your studies." He was only too happy to escape the interior of the boat. Although quite spacious and filled with three beauties, Ryu soon felt claustrophobic as the stacks of books seemed higher and higher as the group continued reading.

Granted they had learnt plenty that will help them survive Nugaia. The most important that when citizens and champions gained mana sight, they are offered a free service by places of worships. This service was commonly known as a class up or class change. Once done, it gave a person a significant power boost such as becoming three times stronger or faster. Depending on the gods it might even make you smarter or luckier. But nothing was truly free. One of the books Glauc provided had mentioned a secret that was only known by gods and a select few. Once one had been modified by this 'class up', their soul would be unable to age. Which meant that they would lose the potential to become stronger in the long run. They would be handicapped with a 'level cap', so to speak.

Ryu and the girls had argued whether a short term power boost will be worth sacrificing godhood for and had come to the conclusion that none of them will take the 'class up' service. If Glauc can be a god, why can't they? Of course, they did not know that he had been 'assisted' by a primordial law (and a magical lettuce), and it would take a combined age of thousands of years to be a god. But to dream was a right of everyone and they were still ironically young and ambitious.

However, they agreed to keep the secret that the gods were preventing a large population from becoming too strong by offering a limited kind of power boost.

Ryu had his dinner in a communal hall. Dinner was spread on the ground on some kind of rattan carpets and he had to cross his legs to eat. He was seated next to Jack and Jill and also the village chief, Gob. A short, stumpy muscular lizardmen with blue scales, Ryu had mentally guessed that he was half dwarf. Fortunately he did not mention his guess because it was not true at all and would have offended Gob quite a bit.

Gob was loudly telling everyone how helpful Glauc had been. He had arrived carrying boxes of pink notebooks and quills to distribute amongst the villagers. Glauc had mentioned something about writing diaries but the village had traded the well made stationaries to traveling merchants for plenty of fur and building materials. They would be able to comfortably live through the coming winter from trading away his gifts.

Glauc had also taught them simple technologies such as fish traps and net weaving, significantly increasing their food supply. The villagers had relied on bows and spears to catch their food before for a good reason. Waves of monsters were prone to attack in winter when food was scarce; spears and bows had the dual purpose of being a fishing tool and a weapon. Glauc had informed Gob that some champions would come to Baqiqi to deal with the monster waves so gathering food using traps and by fishing would be more beneficial in the near future. Ryu merely twitched his eyebrows as he listened to how easily his old boss volunteered him to slay monsters. He asked Gob why he would trust Glauc so easily only to be told that everyone knew that Glauc was a god and to offend one usually brought about great misfortune.

***

Ana was feeling annoyed. She barely registered the words on the book as she shuffled between the pages. Her mind was distracted as she thought of a certain idiot. Ryu obviously had eyes for Jane. When asking about dinner, he had faced Jane when asking to eat together. Ana had tried to engage in many conversations with Ryu but it did not seem to have any effect. The blockhead did not notice any of her hints which only garnered pity from the other two ladies.

Which made the experience more unbearable.

Her daydreaming was interrupted by Sheila. "I don't know why you wanna be with a guy like Ryu. I mean sure, he's handsome but obviously you two have too many different opinions. The whole slavery thing for one. Even if you two were to end up a couple it will only end up in many arguments."

"Well, they do say opposites attract." Jane piped up. She felt quite guilty about stealing Ryu's attention from Ana but well... spicy gossip is spicy gossip. "I read in a magazine that you should just tell him how you feel! Especially to such a simple guy..."

"If you want him to be attracted to you it's easy, but honestly it's not worth the effort. Honestly I'm thinking of seducing the fat fuck. Imagine the boons a god can provide..." Sheila lazily stretched out. The candle light emphasized the perfect curves in her silhouette. Ana and Jane had to bitterly admit that they lost to her in certain ascpects.

"Glauc is already helping us, without the need to sleep with him." Ana angrily rebutted.

"Perhaps. And perhaps he'll help us more if I pleasured him. Also its not the first time I fucked someone without benefits so if nothing happens I'll live. Life is a numbers game. And this time the advantages might actually be crucial to saving our meagre lives." Sheila shrugged as she rested her face on a palm.

The talk was interrupted by a loud crash on the roof. A head popped in the trapdoor. "Glauc's not back? The fucker just sacrificed us to a bunch of monsters. I had a feeling he was pissed we left him behind in the forest! He always takes his revenge quietly, that bastard! The villagers are preparing to train us now..."

***

Glauc landed in a farm land. He instantly knew whose farmland it was from the produce. Only one god would be so obsessed with lettuce. There were rows and rows of the vegetables, some he noticed had grown as big as a house.

The polespear in his left hand was slowly dissipating into white motes of light which he breathed in. Looks like mortal offerings to gods were automatically converted into divine force whether he wanted to or not. He was going to have to find a replacement weapon for Ryu. Or not. Ryu had magical wolf claws. Fuck that harem boy.

The fish in his right hand was still present though. It had died from the lack of water and Glauc thought it would make for a pretty appetizing dinner. He looked around and found Min watering a sprout. He slung the fish on his shoulder and slowly walked to her.

Min was singing to herself, oblivious to her surroundings. When Glauc reached her side, he causally patted her shoulder to greet her. "Yo your holiness! Growing more lettuce?"

Min gave a little yelp and immediately bit the hand on her shoulder, causing Glauc to cry out in pain. "Argh! My hand! Why'd you do that!"

Min continued to clench her jaws on to Glauc's hand as she looked into his eyes with anger. Glauc tried tugging his hand away which only caused her to bite deeper. Tear in one eye, Glauc pointed to himself with his free hand and asked her "It's me. Glauc." Min creased her forehead in return. Glauc added "You summoned me and my friends to Nugaia to get rid of the undead." This actually caused min to stare wide eyed and opened her jaw, which Glauc took the opportunity to immediately pull back his hand and retreat a few steps back.

Min hopped towards Glauc and sniffed him as he wrapped himself with his hands, afraid she would bite a different part. She then stood up straight and pointed at him in an accusing manner. "Undead are still here. No wishes for you yet!"

"What wishes?" Glauc asked her.

Min gave a face like she just swallowed something sour and replied to him. "Did you forget? Get rid of the undead and I'll grant each of you a wish to the best of my abilities!"

"Really? You disappeared before you told us that." Glauc replied. There was now a benefit to their so called holy quest. He had just tried doing it because he was scared Nunu would punish him if he ran away. "Anyway I'm now a god. Can't really get to the mortal plane and fight them without getting drained of all my divine force. Your holiness."

Min's face blanked out and she suddenly jumped on top Glauc and grappled him. Then she started scratching his face with one hand. "Who are you? Why are you in my garden?" Glauc was unable to react and fell flat on the ground in pain which gave Min extra stability and she used the chance to use both her hands to scratch his face.

Glauc covered his face in futility as Min always seemed to find a hole in his defence to pierce. "Nunu sent me here!"

Min stopped and looked at him with suspicion. "Mommy sent you? Did you bring fertilizers? Who are you?"

Glauc looked at the goddess currently sitting on his chest, claws ready to attack, and gave her a placating smile. "Fertilizers? Uhh... Would a fish work? They're full of nutrients and stuff. I think." He pointed his head at the fish he dropped when he got attacked by Min.

Min looked at the fish and her eyes sparkled. "Fishie! And it's not made of divine force! A real fishie!" She jumped to it and lifted it up to the air with both hands. Her whiskers and rabbit ears twitched with glee as she started a ditty about plant food and uncooking an omelette and other random things, fish raised over her head, like offering it to the sky.

Glauc slowly crawled away on all four, trying his best not to get Min's attention. His scratched face already healed. Perks of being a god. Min's attack was quite scary though, every swipe reinforced by fuckloads of divine force. It was fortunate that she attacked to injure, not kill, or Glauc would already be a goner. He had moved no further than a meter when he felt a furry foot step on his buttocks. He stilled his body, hoping somehow it would make him invisible.

Min patted Glauc's head. "Good boy. Bring me more fishie!" Then she kicked his stomach, launching him far into the sky.

***

Meanwhile, in the mortal plane.

"So... What do you say is coming?"

"Winter."

"Could you repeat that?"

"Winter!"

"The whole phrase please...something something is coming..."

Ryu was trying to get an increasingly annoyed Gob to say a certain famous line. Quite unsuccessfully. Gob jabbed his spear into Ryu's stomach, causing quite a deep wound and eliciting a loud yelp.

"It's not regenerating yet. Hurry it up." Gob slowly prodded the wound with the blunt end of his spear. Fortunately, Ryu had combat training on Earth and suppressed his shout into a grunt. He cleared his mind, trying to ignore the pain. The wound started closing up as Gob continued poking it. The healing slowed a few times as Ryu further got distracted by more pain.

Gob looked at Ryu and yawned, not feeling the slightest bit guilty at injuring him. "You gotta learn to stay in a state of rest at all times, even when you are surprised. Your blessing is a powerful one and you'll need it for the coming monster waves. I'll also let Jane sleep you constantly two weeks before winter. Hopefully you'll learn more about resting from that. Other than that, learn to resist pain."

Gob snapped his finger and Sheila immolated Ryu and Ana cast a Banish Evil spell.

"Oh oops. Guess it's your turn." Sheila sticked out her tongue at Ana. Burning Ryu was somehow a lot of fun and she could not wait for her turn. Besides, it was for training purposes, she convinced herself.

When the fire died out a charred corpse was left on the ground. "Did we kill him?" Ana asked aloud. A faint muttering could be heard from the body. "Pain is just a four lettered word. Pain is just a four lettered word. Pain is just a four lettered word." The body stood up and started shouting more incomprehendsible words before Jane shot him with all the sleep darts she could muster. Ryu fell asleep and started to regenerate his skin.

"Not bad." Gob muttered. "He lasted at least ten seconds this time. The monster wave should be pretty easy for you guys. Don't tell him that though. It's too wasteful to let such a powerful blessing be partially used."

***

"Where's Glauc? He's been gone for days..." Sheila asked Ryu. Her plan to seduce Glauc would be futile if he wasn't here at all.

"How should i know? He's probably burning in hell. Or maybe he's fucking seventy-two virgins. No idea how gods work here." Ryu rubbed his eyes. Getting kicked awake was not his idea of a good morning. "How long was I out for?"

"You missed dinner. And breakfast. It's almost noon." Sheila pointed at two trays of food beside him which Ryu proceeded to wolf down, pun intended. "You fully healed in less than five minutes though, that werewolf regeneration is something else huh?"

"Glauc had privately told me that it was not the werewolf blood that is responsible for my regenerative behavior." Ryu casually waved his hand as he spoke with mouthfuls of fruit in his mouth. "It's a real blessing of Luna or something. She's in charge of rest or something like that and she used that uhh... I think he called it domain? Anyway, that's why I gotta feel rested to activate that ability. At least it's a partially passive ability."

"A pretty OP passive." Ana chimed in.

"OP?" Sheila asked.

"Overpowered. It's a game thing. Ryu could probably regenerate an organ if it comes to it. All he gotta do is eat lots of food and rest." Ana explained with crossed arms. "Not to mention his animal form gives him enhanced strength and abilities. By the way, the whole undead holy quest thing? I've been thinking. There's a lot of champions in Nugaia but we're the ones given the responsibility of eradicating them. Something feels off. I've been praying to Maat and I've received replies that she and the other gods have not been told of any undead. It just doesn't make sense. If the undead was so dangerous, why not deal with them now? Why send us?"

"I've known Glauc for some time. He's hiding something. I'll ask him when he comes back." Ryu assured Ana. "For now, we just have to get stronger as much as possible. Either way, we have to deal with a bunch of hungry monsters soon. How's your karma?"

"It's improving. The villagers are also giving me lots of hints on how to fight with a shield and scepter. I'm quite confident about the coming fight actually." Ana proudly said. "Glauc's hint is totally useless though."

"Wish I could say the same." Jane glumly prodded Ana's cheek. "I still can't hit anything with a bow. Jill is also helping me with the training but I'm not improving enough. I'm sorry that I'm not brave enough to fight in the front lines."

"I'll probably be in the back too. Don't worry. Just shoot in the general direction of Ryu instead of Ana. He could easily take a couple of arrows to the back if you miss, he's got like tough back fur armour." Sheila joked.

"Still hurts to be shot by an arrow. Please don't miss." Ryu gave Jane a pleading smile, which lightened her mood.

The group was interrupted mid conversation by a loud bang and red smokes. An old man walked out of the smoke.

All of them took a look at him and they all felt it in their bones. If they fought him, death would be the only result. His aura radiated power. Overwhelming power.

He gave the group a disgusted stare. "Hmpf! All of you are friends of that worthless piece of shit? He's gonna pay for what he did. And you're all going to help me. Whether you like it or not."

"Glauc will suffer for what he did..." the old man clenched his fist and his wrath was evident.

***

Zagan had been the king of Hell, before he declared war on some gods. Fighting in the frontline, he was betrayed by the rest of his kins who wanted his throne. They tricked him and his loyal allies into an ambush by the enemy. However, his superior fighting abilities had turned the ambush into a bloody battleground for both sides. Zagan had personally slain many gods with his bare hands and won the battle.

However, it was not without cost. Many of his soldiers had fell. Upon learning of his victory, his former allies blocked the way back into his kingdom and he was forced to fight with his own kind to try to regain it back. Hell, a mining kingdom, was located in the mountains that acted as a natural defense. Worn down by the previous battle, his army was slowly decimated by hunger and more importantly, the lack of nickels. Nickel was a metal that demons consumed to power their abilities and running out of it was equivalent to running out of ammo.

Hell however, had an almost limitless supply of it from the mines and it was not long before Zagan's army was overwhelmed. Alone and fighting without rest, Zagan despaired and did something taboo to all devils. He prayed to the gods. He asked if there were any to help him get his revenge, to smite his foes and annihilate them.

One reason the devils did not worship gods was because they knew gods were greedy creatures. They always took more than they gave and they would only help if it was profitable. The gods that listened to Zagan's worship simply hid and watched him from afar, laughing with glee as they slowly accepted his prayer and took pieces of his soul to transform into divine force. In exchange, they did nothing, simply waiting for the rest of the demons to kill him. Once he died as a worshipper, his soul would be tied down as their slave and they would torture him for slaying gods, some of them good friends or family.

However, to everyone's surprise, a god acted in Zagan's aid.

She descended and helped Zagan get his revenge, although many later leaned she did it out of simple boredom.

Zagan reminisced about his past, and his face scrunched up in anger. Glauc, a newly ascended god, had done something that spit in the face of his benefactor. He would never rest until he paid back tenfold in revenge. And he would use Glauc's friends, some newbie champions, to make sure Glauc truly suffered and learned of his mistake.

Ryu, Sheila, Jane and Ana were now stuck in some kind of limbo. Some kind of evil demon had kidnapped them and was forcing them against their will to fight against demons one on one. He had somehow judged their combat capabilities lacking and made his underlings spar with the champions. Ryu cursed his friend, wondering what Glauc had done to offend such a powerful demon.

***

A few days before Zagan kidnapped the group...

A dark shape was streaking across the sky. One might mistake it for a bird were it not for the round shape. And lack of wings. Glauc had just been recently kicked high up by Min into the sky. He felt that it would be quite petty of him to hold a grudge against a god that was mentally challenged. Besides, her mother was definitely the incarnation of all evil and suffering or something. No way was he going to wake up a sleeping tiger for petty revenge.

The whole 'flying' experience had an unexpected boon though. He had, in his panic, used his gravity domain to slow his fall. Glauc never truly feared heights, in fact, it was suddenly stopping that was the problem. Thus he burnt up some divine force to make himself lighter for a moment and in doing so, soon had a greater understanding of his domain. And his greater understanding led to his domain producing more divine force in a positive feedback loop. No wonder gods spent their divine force willy-nilly! In the long term it was actually a profitable endeavor.

Lightly landing on a flower field, Glauc decided to attribute Min for this epiphany. He would catch more fishes to thank her thus. Let it be known that Glauc is a kind and grateful god! He chuckled to himself and picked up a flower from the field, only to realise that it was made of candy. It was delicious. He wondered which god had created this area when clouds started to form. Looking up, he noticed the clouds were made of cotton candy.

Pondering to himself, trying to remember which god was in charge of sweets or desserts, Glauc got caught in the pouring rain. He would not have minded getting wet except that the rain was made of viscous chocolate.

After escaping the rain, Glauc decided to telepathically call Luna for advice. He had planned to meet Wadjet but realized that it would be a bad idea when he was so... sticky.

"You're covered in chocolate? Ahh... you must be in Ceres's garden. Lovely place. Remember to bring your umbrella though, and a mug!" Luna spoke through her phone.

"So what should i do? Will Wadjet mind if I meet her like this?" Glauc asked, licking his fingers. Hey, chocolate is chocolate! And this one had a hint of orange, a pretty good combination by his taste.

"Honestly, I'm not sure she'll meet you even in your best. Hmmm. Anyway there's someone I want you to meet first. Go to THE public bath, just say you have a reservation. I'll call the owner to let her know. She's been bugging me ever since... Well, you'll know when you meet her." Luna hung up her phone and dialed another god.

Glauc got to his destination not long after, with the help of several passerby gods. It was however a journey full of good natured teasings, many laughing at his dirty appearance. Glauc could not wait to get rid of the chocolate sticking to every part of his body. They were not the type to solidify and honestly he felt quite disgusted as the chocolate flowed to certain cracks in his body.

THE bath house was famous for a reason. Every part of the building, from the walls, to the floors and ceilings was made of gold and studded with jewels. Pretty opulent, even by a god's standards. Glauc looked at a signboard and blanched as he realized that the cheapest service, a public bath, cost a hundred fuckload of divine force. He timidly approached a statue, one in the shape of woman carrying a pot of water, and waved hello. The statue, a gargoyle, moved its head to look up and down at Glauc. "Fat, fur slippers, covered in chocolate. I presume that you are Glauc?" It asked in gravelly voice in contrast to its feminine look. Glauc nodded and the gargoyle led him through a long corridor through several public baths until they ended in a changing room. "Undress here and we will take care of the laundry. Go through the pink door to enjoy your private bath."

Glauc happily took off his chocolate stained clothes and went through the pink door with a towel covered around his waist. He was immediately buffeted by a pinkish fog that smelled of perfume. Walking on a purple carpet that led to a swimming pool sized spa, Glauc hesitated to enter as he thought to himself. "Private my ass!"

In the corner of the spa, on top of some racks were two soap bars. Problem was the soap bars had pretty obvious eyes, not to mention radiated a large amount of divine force. They also had not noticed Glauc and were talking amongst themselves. "Huehuehue... See Zeus! This is a brilliant plan! When she bathes she'll use us to clean herself and then boom! We'll impregnate her!"

Glauc twitched his eyebrows, before walking back to the gargoyle to ask it about the rather suspicious toiletries. It took no longer than five minutes before the scene was emptied of... distractions before Glauc finally relaxed in the pleasantly soapy waters.

He was about to close his eyes when the pink door at the entrance opened.

Walking through the pink door at the entrance of the spa with a smooth gait, almost as if she were sliding on the floor, a tall figure smiled at Glauc as he hastily covered up his naked privates with a towel. More than two and a half meters tall, and a bubblegum pink from hair to skin, with certain human traits exaggerated, Aphrodite looked at Glauc with interest. Her golden, pupil-less eyes squinted as she studied this newly ascended god.

Luna had earlier called her to rave about Glauc and his so called 'foreplay' skills. It was an interesting idea for Aphrodite, to be able to be intimate but without the chance of impregnation.

Being the goddess of love, Aphrodite had ironically been unable to satisfy her urges due to her unwillingness to love another being more than another. She would love all equally, at least that was what she decided during the early stages of creating the base of her domain. A decision she had always regretted in hindsight. In effect it meant that having children could create the chance to make her prioritize her love to her offspring, thus weakening her domain. Taking an action contrary to a god's own domain could create a divine backlash that would reverse ages of hard work.

Glauc gulped as he noticed the goddess, her tall gait meant that in contrast the relatively tiny towel barely covered her chest and legs. Her slim waist seemed like it would snap at any moment when compared to the size of her butt and breasts. Honestly Glauc wondered how the towel even managed to keep her bounties from spilling out and said a silent prayer for the fabric. At least you died a happy death.

She was one of the few gods that had chosen a nonhuman form, her hair not really made of strands but stuck together in one piece like a soft and stretchy dough. It bobbed up and down as she made her way to the spa, Glauc unable to guess what her species were. A slime? An elemental? She waved at Glauc, the towel staying on despite the movements. "Hi Glauc! Luna told me about you. Know who I am?"

Searching his memories, Glauc vomited out the information he had read in the library. "Aphrodite. Goddess of love, beauty and pleasure."

"And proprietor of this humble establishment." Aphrodite bent her knees to make a little bow. "Did you enjoy your bath?"

"It's wonderful. I just realized how much rest I've been missing, you know, with all the undeads and primordial laws trying to torture me and who knows what. This is the life. But I have a feeling this service is not exactly free, is it?" Glauc remembered the sign board at the entrance of the building, listing prices that he would be unable to afford.

Aphrodite chuckled. "Oh don't worry. This section of the spa is not part of the business. It's my private bath. Although if you could do me a favor, well... I've been told that I make a very good ally."

With a wry smile Glauc asked what the favor was and he was soon stupefied when Aphrodite removed her towel.

"Foreplay. Show me how it's done."

***

At the present time, in a hellish dimension.

Ryu ravaged through thirty opponents, confidently dodging their claws by a hair's width and attacking their weakness with a well placed swipe. After downing half the enemy, he suddenly hesitated and the lapse of movement was immediately taken advantage of and he was taken down.

"Useless! I can help increase your wit but you need to get used to it yourself. Gods can easily dispel my buff. With your skills it is possible to defeat a god, you just have to think faster. Again!" Zagan snapped his finger and the demons carried their injured kin away and got replaced by another team, ready to fight Ryu. Zagan then rubbed his ring and it melted, before throwing the molten nickel at Ryu.

Swallowing the projectile, Ryu was suddenly filled with clarity, able to predict how the devils were going to move. Fully regenerated, he charged into the group, trying to remember how to fight while buffed. Zagan had told him that the buff merely brought out the potential of his mind and Ryu was always capable. He just had to figure out how.

Similar training was being held by Ana and Sheila, both fighting wave after wave of enemies, with the difference that their defeat was decided with a touch of paint soaked training weapons. Their inability to regenerate wounds almost a blessing in disguise.

Jane was excluded immediately from Zagan's training almost immediately though, as he immediately decided her abilities useless against Glauc. Thus she was not 'kidnapped'.

She was avtually now training her archery with the support of the villagers of Baqiqi. Zagan had assured Gob and the rest of the villagers that the champions would be ready by winter. In exchange, the villagers must not let any gods know about his involvement through their prayers.

Jane decided to help Zagan defeat Glauc though, deciding that his wrath was almost righteous. Actually, the whole group agreed with Zagan, not to mention that he promised to accompany their group to defeat the undead should they succeed. He was a demon and unaffected by the rules of gods and could freely move around in the mortal plane of Nugaia. Definitely a lot more useful than receiving indirect help from a god.

She never really liked Glauc that much anyway; he had once called her fat. This was her chance to make him pay for that remark.

***

During their training, Glauc was leisurely reading a book about mythical mammals in Seshat's library. He shook his head as he tried to forget what had happened during the past weeks. Aphrodite. Wadjet. Maat. Eros. Zeus. And counting. He had offended so many gods that he was too scared of leaving the library. He had to figure out how to get Nunu to protect him. She was the only primordial law he knew, but her behavior was a little unpredictable to him.

Glauc snapped his finger. Actually, there is one predictable behavior about Nunu! Glauc lost control of himself and crackled out a loud, evil laugh.

Then, a stone tablet smashed into his face, breaking apart into pieces but not before bending his nose and knocking him off his chair.

"Quiet. This is a library."

***

"Glauc..."

"Yes o divine and beautiful and majestic Nunu, greatest primordial law ever and not to mention coolest and bestest being alive? And kind? Yes! Kindest being ever..." Glauc was now prostrated on the ground, facing a tulip. It was a pretty deadly tulip though, basically Nunu in one of her many forms.

The petals opened and a fairy emerged, sitting on the flower like a throne. "I'm pretty sure i asked you to help your friends defeat the undead, not offend other gods..." She crossed her arms and looked at Glauc in amusement. "What did you do to Wadjet?"

Glauc stood up and waved his hands around in exasperation. "It wasn't me! That was Aphrodite! She destroyed Wadjet's pyramids! She's crazy! I just wanted to ask Wadjet for permission to modify Sheila's blessing and Aphrodite came in shooting arrows at everything! And her arrows were explosive! Why would a goddess of love use explosive arrows?"

Nunu changed from a pixie into a sparrow, flying around Glauc's head. "Oh my. Your chaotic disposition is certainly interesting. And just what did you do to Aphrodite?"

Glauc gave a sheepish smile as he recalled the story...

***

During a certain bathing time in the past, in a lavish private spa in heaven...

"Foreplay. Show me how it's done."

"..."

Glauc was left speechless by this goddess randomly stripping and asking him to show her some foreplay. Glauc was surprisingly aroused by her nonhuman body.

This was easily noticed by Aphrodite. "You like what you see, ya? What should i do? Lie down? Get on my knees? You can't get pregnant from foreplay, ya?" She shuffled to Glauc and looked into his eyes, their face almost touching.

Glauc remembered Luna. She was the only female in his life that willingly slept with him. Without paying for it. He decided to be grateful for what he had and to appreciate and not fuck up their relationship by being intimate with another.

However, his ‘third leg’ disagreed.

"You don't wanna get pregnant? But you want to be pleasured? Well, you've come to the right guy! Oh, so many things to teach you, where do i start... Huehuehue..."

***

Zagan had a perfect day, all culminating in him relaxing in THE bath house in heaven. The water soothed his aching bones greatly and gargoyles massaged his shoulders and fed him grapes from a plate. Truly, this was a place worth paying for. Being a devil, he was not able to 'create' divine force but that did not mean he couldn't trade his skills and time for some. Gods could condense their divine force into a white marble shape, commonly used as currency in heaven. And Zagan gladly spent his today.

For some reason, the bathhouse today was special, a pink aura was periodically released and when it passed over him, he felt extremely giddy. Almost like, an orgasm? Either way, Zagan was truly grateful he spent his divine force today. He'll meet Aphrodite later and compliment her on such a special service today. Maybe, he'll buy her some flowers and chocolates to thank her. Bitches love chocolates. Maybe.

Zagan soaked in the bath for a while, trying to maximize his enjoyment. However, it seems the pink aura had stopped appearing for a while. Oh well, all good things must come to an end. He dressed up and walked to the cashier to pay up when his attention was caught by a loud din. He looked around and saw a few gods, other customers of the bathhouse. They noticed him looking around and pointed at the source of the noise.

Glauc was trying to walk out the bathhouse. He was only wearing a towel around his waist and desperately holding on to it. Grabbing his leg was Aphrodite. She slid on the floor as Glauc half limped and half dragged his feet. He hissed at her. "No way! No bloody way! No. No. N. O. NO!"

"But why? You'll finally have a proper domain! A unique domain of your own! Imagine the powers you'll gain!" Aphrodite was pitifully sobbing at Glauc while getting dragged on the floor. "I'll even share part of my domain with you as an initial investment!"

"No bloody way I'll create that domain! I know how obsessed a god becomes when they use their soul to create a domain. I'll turn into some kind of mindless addict!" The domain they were speaking of was obviously of >. During the entirety of their intimate moments, Glauc had remembered one crucial flaw of foreplay. A flaw so big he swore he would never try to create that domain, despite Aphrodite promising to share two of her main domain, and .

That flaw can be summed up in two words.

Blue balls.

Besides, if he created that domain, it meant that he would have to request his worshippers to engage in foreplay before making love. As a proponent of the nut and run faction, Glauc realized he would end up annoying a large population that mated, especially the males. It might even end up with him getting grouped up with the 'evil god' faction. He shuddered as he thought of it.

After escaping the bathhouse, Glauc went to Wadjet's palace to ask her about Sheila. He did not realize that Aphrodite was rather... persistent. And crazy. For some reason she got jealous that Glauc was visiting another woman so soon after seeing her that she started destroying Wadjet's properties. In the ensuing chaos, Glauc escaped to Seshat's library and the news spread around heaven of Glauc's misadventures. Fortunately for him Seshat's library effectively hid his pressence.

Wadjet herself declared war on Glauc and swore revenge for all the trouble he created. Many gods also decided to join her, especially those who had tried to win Aphrodite's heart but been mercilessly rejected. Zeus and Eros also took the chance to get revenge after learning that Glauc had caused them to be banned from THE bathhouse after disguising as soap in Aphrodite's private bath.

***

"And now you're here. Asking for my protection. What makes you think I'll protect you from this mess?" Nunu shook her head at her chosen. She definitely chose Glauc because the aura of chaos was strong with him, even if he was unwillingly creating it around him. Her sharing her domain had apparently caused his fate to be exponentially more chaotic and in the process giving her a major headache. Nunu definitely wanted him to create a little chaos, it was in her nature. But she expected him to do it to the mortal plane, not inside her body. Nunu herself being 'heaven', Glauc had caused her a little.. indigestion with his antics.

The troublemaker in question perked up at her question, suddenly looking confident. "You'll help me because there is a very good reason for it! And that reason is..."

***

Zagan waited by the port, looking out for signs of divine force, or worse. He hoped it was only divine force but he knew Glauc had somehow been interacting with Nunu.

The watery abyss. A primordial law. And the worst part was, she represented chaos, a concept antithesis to demons, beings that valued order above all. Which meant that Zagan was forever 'in debt' to Nunu. And being in debt to a primordial law meant that it wasn't prevented from harming you.

His worst fears came through when the river started rippling. A staired tunnel formed from the waters, seemingly leading from deep in the dark bottoms.

From the bottom a happy tune was being whistled, one without a care in the world. Zagan's vein throbbed.

Glauc. He's finally here. To heck with Nunu, Zagan will make him pay despite all the risks.

He took out a rough piece of nickel from his pocket, roughly the size of a candy. He gripped it tightly and the metal melted and shrunk in half, the price of demon magic. He threw the enchanted remainder to Ryu and it dispersed into dust.

Ryu breathed in the dust and the world seemed clearer. He could hear birds preying on insects, people milling about their days, and more importantly, Glauc swagger up the water stairs. Ryu realized that his old friend was not truly made of flesh; his heart beats throbbing with a rhythm that was too even.

A false mortal body. An avatar. It took Zagan's magic to truly make Ryu understand that his old friend had transcended. No longer a human. A god.

And now, he had to fight his old friend. He hoped the ambush would work, Sheila and Ana already informed and preparing their spells. Their hellish training would be put to the test today, mortals against a god, and although history had some victories about similar fights, such stories were few.

He was rather confident though. Zagan himself had claimed to slay several gods and Ryu found that the demon never lied, and even ruthlessly punished any untruths spoken. Weird races, these demons.

As Glauc got up the stairs he was complimenting himself on his genius. Nunu had agreed to protect him from the other gods. And all he had to do was catch a few fishes for Min. For her fertilizers and what not. Nunu might be chaotic but there was one thing constant about her, she would do anything for her daughter. A fact Glauc ruthlessly exploited.

Fishing rod in hand, Glauc admired it. He had visited the market in heaven and had one custom made. It had all the bells and whistles and was even gold plated with studded gems. It had cost him a fortune in divine force. But fishing had always been his hobby and he happily took a monthly payment loan for it. His happy thoughts were interrupted when a large ball of fire came flying towards him.

He yelped and jumped up over three meters, his improved control of gravity apparent in such an act. He floated in the air and watched the fireball land in the water and fizzled out. He knew it was made of mana and could barely damage him but the problem was that it was made of mana. A byproduct of using divine force. Basically in gods' minds mana is a type of excrement. He gagged as he thought of being covered by waste.

"Ewww why'd you do that..." Glauc's speech was interrupted midway as Ryu jumped towards him at a speed barely perceptible by sight. A bright light flashed in front of Glauc's face and blinded him. "Agrh! Fucking Maat and her toys!" Even while blinded Glauc managed to dodge Ryu by further flying up but his path was intercepted by another fireball. It singed him and he dispelled the fire. The mana stuck to his skin though. "Argh! Why??? I just took a bath!"

Sheila was preparing to fling several more fireballs at Glauc when he pointed at her despite rubbing his eye with the other hand. He made a gun posture with his fingers and made a shooting gesture. Sheila immediately felt her legs being pulled up by an invisible force and she was lifted upside-down several meters in the air.

Glauc then blinked a few times and made the same gun posture with both his hands, one aimed at Ana and one at Ryu. Glauc made a shooting gesture and both of them were also lifter several meters in the air upside-down.

"Pew pew pew!" Glauc belatedly said. He had to remember saying 'pew' as he shot, it would be a lot cooler. And fun.

He chuckled to himself and he suddenly felt something dangerous. Every fibre of his being screamed of his demise. It felt similar to Aphrodite's explosive arrows, something that would shave away all of his divine force.

He grabbed the fishing rod floating by his side and used it to block a coin shot towards him. It stopped the projectile and embedded itself halfway into the rod. The rod broke in half at the impact and Glauc pointed the half broken rod at Zagan. "KNEEL!" Glauc had never felt so angry and scared at the same time.

Zagan tsked to himself as he was noticed by Glauc. He immediately felt himself and the air around him get heavier. The ground around him cracked and pushed deeper down. He tried to resist it but eventually was pushed down to his knees. He still looked at Glauc defiantly.

Glauc looked at the demon that almost killed him and slowly recognized him. "The butler?"

"Zagan. At your service." The well dressed devil snarkily retorted.

"Waiiiit a minuteee. What the heck is going on? Why are you attacking me? Actually, why is everyone attacking me?" Glauc looked at Ryu for confirmation.

"Don't worry we're not gonna kill ya. Zagan said he just wants to jail you for a while." Ryu spoke while upside-down in the air. "He said u been fooling around in heaven while we're suffering down here. Like you used to say. Friends don't let friends suffer alone, right?"

"Jail me? He obviously lied to you! That coin bullet would have killed me! Good thing i practiced my domain and stopped him. If he shot a few more I don't think this rod could protect me!" Glauc angrily shouted at the group. Ryu might be dumb, but he did not expect the rest of the group to get tricked by the butler.

"Hmpf! Demons do not lie! Outrageous! Preposterous! I've used that coin flick many times in the past and never killed a god with it! It just injures them..." Zagan interrupted.

"..." Glauc was speechless. He was just reminded that he was a lot weaker than other gods. "I'm a new god. Not a lot of divine force. That so called coin flick is totally lethal. As a matter of fact, im running out of divine force right now so... Nunu? Prepare an escape route for me?"

The water rippled, almost as if in glee. "You promised fishes for my darling~ tsk tsk tsk! You're not going to break your promise are you?"

This bitch! She's totally enjoying seeing me suffer! Glauc thought. He should have asked for protection from everyone instead of just gods. She would not break her promise if the danger was not from a godlike source. It was too late to regret his decision though.

Glauc looked at Zagan, who now had a malicious smile on his face. The butler stood up as he felt the gravity around him stabilize.

Zagan brushed his suit and crossed his arms. "Get on the boat and surrender or I'll drag you to the mortal plane. I'm sure it'll be a very unpleasant experience for you."

Glauc sighed. Fucking butlers.