Idol?
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[A.N. Because I'll only post on weekends for a while I'll try to give 2 or 3 chapters during the weekends.]
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'Oracle, please show the status of my new sisters please.'
'Yes Hades.'
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Name: Hera
Power lvl: (low) God
Divinities: Women(B), Marriage(C), Childbirth(C)
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Name: Demeter
Power lvl: God
Divinities: harvest(B), grain(C), and fertility(B)
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… hold up.
'Oracle, why can I see all of their divinities?'
'It's because The skill observe has been somewhat upgraded. While you grow stronger Hades, so will I and by extension any system skills.'
'Wow, thanks Oracle but isn't this something I should have been informed of?'
'Well, as it's the only system skill and that you rarely use it, I found it not as important as your training and eventual escape.'
'Ok, I guess.'
Anyway, their divinities aren't too bad. Demeter is surprisingly ranked higher than Hera. Only her grain divinity is holding her back, most likely do to the lack of any connection to it. Like how I can't do much with my wealth and riches divinity. For Hera, I think she is suffering from something similar with her childbirth and marriage. Her low ranking for marriage might also be because of the poor example she saw in Kronos and Rhea's 'marriage'. I don't think they'll be able to progress much here, that's if they even want to train.
From my memories, just about every story made Hera seem like a stuck up drama queen that could be very violent, vengeful and relentless. Especially when angered, more so over infidelity. She also had an unreasonable dislike towards her brother Hades and is very dismissive of him and his children's problems. I hope I'll be able to change things with her, it'll be a pain to have her causing trouble and always looking for a reason to complain about something. As for Demeter, she should be a lot easier to get along with. Talking to her about plants, grain and harvesting should be enough to get her to open up slightly. Then from there it should be simple, shower them with care and provide all the comfort I can to them. Over our remaining time, we should be able to form a good familial connection.
With all my sisters here now I'm just waiting on two more major events before I can even consider escape. Poseidon should be here within the decade and the stone meant to be Zeus should be here soon after that. My goal is to have everything except my wealth and riches and my space/time divinity to A level by the time Poseidon gets here so the remaining time I can use on my space/time. With my Devourer and comfort divinity it shouldn't take much long until I rank them up.
[2 years Later]
Finally!!!!! I was able to make the skills I wanted. I was even able to level it up. It took a lot longer than what I thought it would but at least I succeeded. The skill that I was able to make with my devourer divinity are just what I was lacking.
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Bottomless pit: you can devour divinities but what about the ones useless to you that you really need anymore. Cast them to the bottomless pit that is the stomach of the devourer.(influence of space/time divinity)Any divinity cast into the pit will be stored and available as the pit is endless and timeless.
Gift of the Devourer: you can grant one divinity from your bottomless pit to any being that has accepted you as their superior or their God. If the being is too weak for a divinity it will minimize all the way to the demigod level in an attempt to try to bond and if the being is still too weak in body and soul then their soul will be shredded and destroyed.
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Now I can store devoured divinities and even strengthen my subordinates or turn mortals into demigods and demigods into gods, with nothing but some thought and a divinity that is useless to me.
With my devourer divinity finally at the A level I can now move on to my comfort divinity.
[4 years Later]
This is… BULLSHIT! 4 years and no real progress. My reserves have grown but other than that nothing. I thought this would be easy, it's just comfort. I can make myself and others comfortable, what else is there? I don't even need to ask Oracle to know that my understanding of comfort must be lacking but I'm not sure where yet and in the year since I've realized this, I still haven't been able to think of anything.
Deciding to clear my head a bit I go out the cave to see all my sisters sitting on the beach talking.
They all got along really well. While at first Demeter was really shy and Hera was also quite only speaking when spoken to, Hestia eventually broke down their walls. I spend time with them for at least a few hours a day. They mostly just ask about my training, what the plan of escape will be and if they can help in any way.
There honestly isn't much to talk about besides what we'll do in the future. Hera talks of finding a good faithful husband, someone much better and stronger than our father and getting married and eventually having kids. Demeter talks of nothing but grains and plants. How she longs to see them. Hestia was very optimistic. She would speak of all of us and our parents once again being a family. While I knew it would never happen, I didn't want to crush her dream yet, at least not before getting out of here.
As I get closer what I hear makes me freeze in shock.
"Hestia, can we please take down your hearth in the cave now."
"What's your problem with my hearth this time Hera?"
"This time my dress caught on fire while I was sleeping but I was so comfortable I didn't notice until I smelled it burning. I think it's a little unsafe sleeping so close to that fire."
"What about brother, his fire is all around us."
"Yes but brothers doesn't count because it doesn't burn or even latch onto anything like other fire. It seems that it is only here for light any nothing else, it's amazing the level of control he has."
"Definitely amazing!" x2
"But ok I guess we can see about moving…"
I stopped listening and focused on the information I just heard. I got 4 important pieces of information from their conversation. One, my fire control is much better than I thought. I didn't know that my fire wouldn't burn things, I did create it with the idea of it just being for light but I didn't think it would have this kind of effect. Two, Hera doesn't hate or dislike me in this life. When she spoke of my fire, it was a warm and caring voice and when she spoke the last part there was nothing but pure admiration. Three, all my sisters seem to have family affection for me. Four, I'm a fucking idiot. Why? That's because I never considered the sleep part of comfort.
When you're comfortable enough you can fall asleep damn near anywhere. I might be able to do something like that. I'll need to do more meditation on other ideas too. Hopefully I can get this divinity to A level soon.
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[A.N. MC was human but he will very, very slowly lose his humanity. The process won't just happen overnight. While right now he is just trying to be a decent big brother so they don't turn on him after the war and fear him too much. He isn't trying to be manipulative… yet.]
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