The Goddess of Spirits

"I choose the Goddess of Spirits as my benefactor!"

No matter how I looked at the other offers of the gods, the Goddess of Spirits was, undoubtedly, the best, the only one that even came close was the God of Fire who offered me unlimited control over fire, but the mana consumption of advanced spells must have been enormous.

So instead I chose a low mana consumption almost passive power, the ability to absorb spirits, that would in turn strengthen me, and they can assist me in fights or anything I would need them for, the downside of that is that I must give them a respectful death, one that will not invoke their wrath after death, otherwise, they won't obey me, so, therefore would be useless.

But probably the biggest plus to this power is that I can also absorb human souls, allowing me to keep people alive after death, at least in one way...

"Are you sure about that? Not everyone can handle her power."

I nodded.

"Then it has been decided. Spirit Goddess, please come forth."

Soon after he said that, a tall woman with translucent blueish skin stepped on the platform. She walked gracefully almost like she was floating and stopped in front of me, she had to look down to meet my eyes.

After a moment of silence, she extended her hand to me. Even though I thought it was cheesy I grabbed her hand with mine before getting on one knee and kissing her hand.

As soon as I did that, a wave of power overcame me, and without me knowing it, my eyes started changing color to a glowing light blue, darker on the inside and lighter on the outside.

I got up and let go of her hand, she then took a step back and made a little bow.

"Good luck, child..." After a last glance, she turned around and went back to her seat.

*step* *step* The sound of steps was heard climbing down the stairs. A man with curly black hair dressed in a black suit walked nonchalantly toward me. What immediately stood out to me was that he had the same abyssal eyes as Yukina. Behind him, a woman with seemingly opposite features to him was pulling on his clothes.

She wore a white dress with red decorations, her hair was straight and white as were her eyes.

"I don't want to do this..." She whispered.

"You just told me you wanted to give it to him, why are you backing down right when we will make fools of ourselves."

"B-but..."

"No buts, get up there, you didn't give your power to anyone for thousands of years!" He then pushed her towards me.

"Uh... Umm... I-I want..." She looked back at the man. "I w-want to give you my power, also..." She was almost tearing up just from saying a sentence.

"Hello." I should take it easy with her, she doesn't seem too keen on being here. "My name is Azazel, what's yours?"

"I-I-I'm the G-Goddess of Virtue... Ahhh, I really can't do this, I'm sorry!" She ran to the man and buried her head in his shirt.

"Ugh... I'm sorry about her, what she wants to say is that she is the Goddess of Virtue and she wants to give you another power. You see, Yukina's power gives her an advantage over bad people by paralyzing them, no matter how strong they are, I'm telling you this because she doesn't know this. But my wife wants to give you her power, which is the opposite of mine, it will give you the upper hand towards good people but it won't interfere in any other way with your life. You will also be forgiven for your sins by getting this power."

"Uaah! Now that you say it out loud it actually hits me how useless it is! I don't deserve to be a god!..." The goddess squirmed.

"... It's not useless! Our powers are made to complement each other! So if he becomes Yukina's bond they will be unstoppable!"

"Really?..."

"Yes, of course!"

'Why do I feel like the universe is trying to set me up with Yukina?'

"Are you really sure?"

"Yes, let's ask him if you don't believe me!" He turned toward me. "Will you accept my wife's power?"

"... Sure, it doesn't seem to have any downsides, nor does it sound useless, I will gladly accept it."

"Ha!... Thank you! Ah!... T-then... let's get on with it..." She slowly walked towards me.

I was getting ready to get on one knee again but when she reached me she just leaned over and kissed me on the cheek.

With it, a new pair of eyes opened under and off to the side of my normal ones, while I felt a giant weight being lifted off my mind... or maybe soul... I'm not sure.

"This is incredible!" Everything that clogged my mind seemed to have been reduced to nothing more than afterthoughts.

After the kiss, she took a step back and again bowed before running to her husband. He nodded at me then turned back to go to their seats.

"Did you really have to kiss him?" The man whispered, while the woman just smiled at him.

The seemingly leader of the gods waited a little in case anyone else wanted to talk, but when nobody got up, he opened his mouth.

"Now, I will begin remaking your soul, this will hurt, just not physically." He lifted one of his fingers from the armrest, and something I couldn't even see hit me.

It started of bearable, but slowly a head splitting pain brought me to the brink of consciousness, I felt like I could die any second now. The power of the gods is truly no joke.

After a minute of convulsing on the ground, my body became dull, I could barely feel the pain, thankfully, the pain soon stopped and as I was opening my eyes, I could see myself stand over me.

"Am I..." Darkness...

"He... I disappeared!"

"Yes, unfortunately, the downside of duplicating souls is that the old one must be destroyed. It breaks my heart every time, but it must be done."

"..." I kept looking at the floor as if he... I would reappear. 'I shouldn't think about this too much, I feel like myself so I must be him... Right? Oh, I forgot, nobody will answer anymore, ugh...'

"I will transport you back to your body, are you ready?"

"...Yes. Please begin..."