Chapter 55

Chapter 55

"So, Jake what development ability do you want for your third level? Wait actually the abnormal resistance ability is replaced with something else." Hestia told me as she was working on my falna to reach level three

"What is it?" I asked as she hummed in thought.

"It's called 'Pure Body' and it seems to use your mind to keep your body in as pinnacle of state as possible even through harsh environmental conditions as it would make your body acclimate to it along with nullifying any toxins you come into contact with." nove(l)bi(n.)com

'Hmm sounds like a much better Abnormal Resistance ability.' I thought and honestly none of the other abilities stood out to me as I still haven't gotten my own spell yet not to mention Grimoires aren't something you could just buy and apparently those Gulliver Brother's used the one Freya had in storage so that idea was a bust.

"Yeah, let's go along with that one." I said firmly as I was reminded that the skill may even help me fit in, in another world with how it could help me acclimate too the foreign atmosphere.

As soon as she pressed the divine equivalent of the accept button, I felt my ears pop as they adjusted to the pressure and my whole body felt horribly itchy as my skin literally peeled off and as Hestia started screaming at my molting bloody skin being peeled off me, I saw Bell run outside of his little side room with one of his old daggers till he saw my blood covered form and paused pale as death.

"Hestia killed Jake and he became a monster!" He cried out and slammed his door and audibly locked it as people streamed inside the church's main room from the basement and outside as they saw me literally pulling off my old skin in chunks.

Actually, I was making a bit of a mess let me go outside and do this in the shower.

Even the proud and almost unflappable elf Ryuu quickly scooted out of my way making me roll my eyes at how exaggerated everyone was acting.

"Ok I take that back" I muttered seeing the nasty stuff being pulled off of me in the shower and I was reminded about those body cleanse's that cultivators go through that pull any impurities out of them.

I felt like it took at least half an hour to get all the gunk off of me and had to ask Lili to scrub my back clean of any stuff I couldn't reach.

When I dried my hair, I realized that it had grown out from a hand full of dirty blond hair to luscious blond locks that reached my shoulders and would make Ryuu jealous with how they reflected the sun light.

"Yeah, this is some uber gay hair." I muttered as I walked into the church in new clothes and saw everyone gapping at me and after taking in my skin, I realized I was become one of those "Jade Beauty's" with how smooth my skin was and even Freya was giving me the side-eye at how fucking handsome I became.

Freya said something a man never wants to hear as she chuckled. "Jake if you looked like this at the beginning, I would have had to have Ottar rescue you before Ishtar kidnapped you to be her new pegging toy."

"That's Ouranos." Hestia whispered to me, and I nodded my assent as the supreme god rapped his fingers on his stone chair making the whole room go quiet.

"Divines and Mortals of the great city state of Orario we are facing what seems to be the largest crisis since the inception since the construction of this great city." He spoke grandly and I could feel my body vibrating from the sheer power in his words.

But what can you expect from a god who helped create this world? Not to mention I could see what looked like level ones sitting beside there deity's who looked like they were about to faint at his pressure.

"As much as I would love to allow the divine's present to smite the army of behemoths coming... Sadly I have determined in my meditations that they are being driven by the dungeon and are no longer tamed or being leashed by the mortal named Alfia" In other words any divine interfering with the monsters of the dungeon would provoke said dungeon to unleash a monster tide...

"The behemoths are being ordered to return to the dungeon by whatever will resides within the dungeon, and we cannot allow them to pass through Orario lest the land be eternally tainted like the Black Desert the land where the original Behemoth died and become uninhabitable without Abnormal Resistance. Therefore, I am calling for a new Great Quest for the slaying of those Behemoths and the slaying of the rouge adventurer named Alfia, so she doesn't create any more of those abominations!"

I couldn't agree more despite her being Bell's aunt she was literally called the Queen of Neurosis and almost plucked Bells eyes out of him as it was the one part of Zald he carried, she thought it apparently tainted her beloved picture of dear sister Materia and would have been done it if Zues didnt force her to leave Bell with him.

With Ouranos here we all basically played a background role as He setup our roles and sent us literally off to war and didnt leave any discussion to be had. Honestly, I think he had the gods bring there captains that way they couldn't lie about there orders or skive off.

Finally He turned to Hestia and me as he called out with a light smile. "Jake Barriss level three and captain of the Hestia Familia congratulations on your level up first of all..." The room was stunned in silence after hearing how I leveled up again but as the whispers started taking over Ouranos knocked his knuckles on his chair, and it rang out like standing next to a huge gong making me choke on my breath as all the voices died. "The Hestia Familia will be stationed with Loki to provide support as they spear head the battle."

"Oi why should my children spear head this damnable quest!" Loki cried out and twitched heavily when Ouranos turned a glowing sky-blue eye on her.

"You seemed so content to kick Zeus and Hera off there pedestals after they fought battles of legend against the other great beasts. So, you can have the honor of saving the world now..." He smiled and I could see the millions of years of experience that smile had as he casually plotted essentially the downfall of the top Familia but there wasn't anything anyone could do to him as he was literally one of the most powerful gods out there and was barely leashed down here and was needed to keep the dungeon tame.

"Loki your quest isn't hopeless as it may appear as you will also be joined by several other Familia's in your charge, but I admit with Freya's Familia being now defunct, well we frankly don't have any other options." Ouranos sighed at how Orario was becoming weaker with the loss of Ishtar and Freya's Familia.

Ouranos stood up from his chair and slowly turned around the room and took in all the occupants as he grandly spoke. "Today rest and recover as tomorrow I will close the dungeon personally to ensure there will be no entity's using the dungeon to attack us while you all are gone while you all leave for war!"

With that dramatic speech he left the auditorium as all the deities rebooted and whirled onto me.

'But not expecting the creator of the falna system to be able to remotely view it was a bit of a misplaced hope I guess.' I thought sighing