Chapter 858: The Heaven's Mana Source
Chapter 858: The Heaven's Mana Source
"I'll send two maids to help you change and bath," Klara bowed as she left the girls inside the changing room and left.
Asmo stared at Grace, "We need maids?"
"Don't ask a maid," Grace shook her head, "But I guess how it goes when we didn't destroy everything," She smiled, looking at Tiamat and Maharaja, "What do you two think?"
"I don't know yet, but I like it here." Tiamat smiled, "Reminds me of the bath I owned in Furberg,"
"As long as I'm back with Cain, I don't care-nya," Selena replied, "This time, I'll never leave his side, and none would harm him again-nya," Maharaja stretched, crackling her neck and back as she sat on the marble chairs of the changing room.
Thud! Ereshkigal sat beside Maharaja, putting one leg on another, "It's decent,"
Asmo glared at her, "Decent?"
"I've seen better in hell," She waved her hand, "But they were bathes of acid instead of water,"
"I'm the devil lord of the nine hells," Asmo approached her, "Those exist, and they aren't better than a water path like this,"
"Depends on how soft your skin is," Ereshkigal smiled, "The skin of powerful devils like me needs something a bit stronger than mere water,"
"I'm stronger than you," Asmo stared at her, "You aren't even a fighter,"
"That doesn't matter,"
Bacchus stared at them from the side, smiling, "Don't start a mother and daughter fight over a bath," She walked between them, "I'll splash both of you with wine if you don't stop,"
"Why violence?" Asmo stared at her, "We aren't fighting,"
"You know she's Asmodeus? I'm her mother, so it's fine," Ereshkigal stared at Bacchus.
"I know," Bacchus smiled, "Since we're here, we all should stand somewhat equal to each other. I doubt splashing you with wine is considered an attack when you're about to bath anyway,"
"True," Asmo sat beside Ereshkigal, putting one leg on another like her mother.
"Do you think Cain would be back quickly?" Grace looked at them.
"Getting impatient? Didn't you wait for centuries?" Tiamat looked at her.
"I did wait, but I don't want to wait anymore." Gracie looked at Maharaja, "Isn't that right?"
"Minutes, hours at best-nya!" She replied with a smile, her fist on her hips, her chest puffed up, and her tail wiggled from left to right.
Click! The door opened, and Amara and Ellie walked inside, looking at the girls and bowing.
"Amara Wilson,"
"Everly Sharp,"
The girls stared back at them, returning a gentle bow.
Amara looked at them, "Who'll start first?"
Grace looked at them, "I'll be the last. Get her first since she's the oldest," She pointed at Ereshkigal.
"Hoi! Who's you're calling old?"
"I called you oldest. That's better than old," Grace replied with a passive face. And then looked to the side, "Then her," She pointed at Bacchus.
Amara and Everly looked at each other and then at Grace. "You're Gracie, right?"
"Grace, so we won't get confused." She looked at them.
The two girls smiled, "As expected from the head maid. Let's go with what you said,"
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Cain walked into Lilia's lab with her sitting on his shoulder, tapping her legs on his chest while humming. "Can we really make the seal that easily?" He asked.
"We can," Lilia looked at his face by pulling his head back, "It's simple, but I won't call it easy," She jumped from his shoulder and landed on the floor, taking a few hops to the middle of the lab.
CLAP! CLAP! She clapped her hands, and a table appeared out of nowhere, and then two chairs, one at each side. "Please, have a seat,"
The two sat facing each other, "I understand the basics of the spell and how to modify it with magic. But the identification part won't work with two of the same person existing in the same timeline,"
"Then we'll change their time," Lilia stared at him with a grin, "We shift their time by a fraction of a second to the future, set the spell then, then add a layer that shifts them back to the present. The result would be a null time difference, a lot of wasted mana, but the identification seal would be marked in the future so it would work without a problem,"
"Traveling to the past or future isn't like stopping time," Cain stared at her, "And you want to do both? For multiple people and seek a result that seeks minimal mana usage and zero side effects on their bodies?"
"Told you it's simple but not easy," She waved her hands with a smug face.
"Do you know how to do it?"
"Nop,"
Cain sighed, "Then what could we do?"
"Work on it," Lilia pointed at him, "We'll figure it out on the way, the important part is we start,"
She jumped from the chair and stood on the table, "Time to work!" She lifted her fist up, shouting.
"Yay!" Cain lifted his fist after her with almost no energy. "This would be exhausting,"
"It will, but we have to do it," Lilia jumped down and pulled Cain with her toward the desk.
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Outside in the abyss, a large chunk of the land burst into flames as a spark flew out like a flash. Sofia had a boxer's guard, blocking a fist from Zaleria, "You're our goddess, right? Hold up more,"
CRACKLE! CRACKLE! Flame burst from between Zaleria's knuckles like explosions, trying to blast Sofia away.
Sofia's green eyes shifted into pale blue as her arms got covered with white scales, "Don't blame if this hurt," From her guard, a massive burst of cold exploded into a massive mountain of pure, crystalized ice.
Sofia took a deep breath, staring at the mountain of ice and looking for Zaleria, she knew better than anyone, that such a thing wouldn't keep her grandma away.
BAM! BAM! Sofia heard several explosions coming from behind the mountain with a tone of water vapor rising into the sky. She took a guard and got ready, ^She's digging through the ice.^
Sofia froze in place, feeling someone hugs her from the back. "I'm here," Zaleria whispered, "You're too focused on magic,"
Sofia's nerves jolted as her body rushed to react, moving her head back as fast as she could to smack Zaleria's face.
Zaleria slipped beneath Sofia. She wrapped her arm between her legs and grabbed her by the wrist, tying her in place, "You can't hit me like this,"
"You say I can't?" Sofia twisted her torso, dislocating her shoulder and shifting the tides, catching Zaleria in an armbar.
"This doesn't work midair," Zaleria smiled.
"The ground is too soft for us anyway," Sofia tried to shatter Zaleria's arm anyway.
"You're right," Zaleria twisted her body and pulled her arm from Sofia's grip, kicking her in the face. Sofia retaliated by doing the same.
Kossuth sat on the ground, watching daughter and great-granddaughter try to kill each other. "Those two are really going at it," She sighed.
"You'd think they are trying to kill each other for real," Amaterasu who sat beside her sighed as well, "Are we getting too old to have such energy?"
"You must be joking," Kossuth stared at her with a grin, "The goddess of the sun and the goddess of fire, "If we don't have energy, then who has it?"
"Cain?" Amaterasu replied.
"He's on another level. Even if you get wasted after going into bed with him, he just doesn't stop or get tired,"
"He's getting stronger by the second, none of us could dream of such rapid growth," Amaterasu looked at the sky where Sofia and Zaleria were trying to kill each other. "Since he's the over god, all of our growth flows back to him. Whatever he does to make us stronger, will flow back to him."
"Sleep with him and get a set amount of mana, let's say a thousand. He'll quickly regenerate what he lost so he has no problem. But, we can use that mana and add it to our max mana."
"And when our max grows bigger, it's growth that reflects back on Cain as our overgod. It's like an infinite mana loop," Amaterasu smiled.
"But, even if we slept all with him at the same time, all day long. The speed he'll grow it won't be enough to reach the height he wants to face the abominations and hold the world." Kossuth explained.
"That's why we're here to train and grow conventionally," Amaterasu smiled, "Unless we need a mana boost,"
"You look for more than a mana boost," Kossuth stared at her with a grin.
"Said the woman who enjoys getting beaten by him," Amaterasu replied.
"I'm a drakaina, I like those stronger than me. It's like women loving someone taller than them,"
"He already proved he's stronger than you,"
"When you look for someone taller, you want him to always look taller than you. You can't have him taller than you today, and then shorter the other days. The best part about it is when he stares down at you," Kossuth looked at Amaterasu, "I'm the same, I want each time to be reminded he's stronger like him staring down at you reminds you of him being taller,"
"To me, it's at least weird," Amaterasu sighed.
"Said the women who enjoy her toes getting sucked? What's so fun about that?"
"I used to be the strongest, dominion wasn't a problem but he's the first one too strong for me to dominate." Amaterasu replied, "Having him suck my toes gives me the illusion that I won, or that I'm dominating again,"
"See? You're weirder than me,"
"To each their own, judge yourself and I'll judge myself. What we do in bed is personal, it's not for any other person besides the people involved to have a say in," Amaterasu giggled.
"You're right,"