No cause for celebration

Seth sighed and asked: “How can she summon a divinity at the fourth shell?”

“Lots of reasons, but mainly because of her light will. You’ve seen it the last time you were inside her soul space; you just chose to ignore it, hoping you were wrong. Her light will already formed a consciousness long ago.”

“I don’t know what it is, but she seemed to have found the truth behind the concept of light, which summoned a divinity for her.”

Seth lowered his head and asked: “But won’t her divinity shatter her soul completely once it materializes?”

“Do you think such a strong soul, which held on when countless others had crumbled under inhuman abuse, will break so easily? A soul that had already witnessed the greatness and burden of divinity when it hadn’t even started the path of cultivation. Seth, aren’t you underestimating her too much?”

“But she’s too weak, Lust….”

“You’re only worrying because of your experience with your divinity, but each divinity is different. The will of light had already accepted her, so there’s no need to worry about crushing her soul even if she can’t bear it.”

Seth raised his head and said: “You mean… the light divinity will seal itself for her? What if it takes form and breaks her soul before seeking a light demigod who can shoulder it instead?”

“That is a possibility, but do you think the light will would ever betray its host like that? Doesn’t that go against everything it stands for?”

Seth found her words made sense, but even if that was true, Seth had many more problems to consider with this sudden situation.

“Yes, the real problem will not come from inside.” said Lust, reading Seth’s thoughts. “The creation of another divinity would be felt throughout the entire universe, and there’s no tower to protect her.”

“I know. The other demigods of light will all rush here to take it away. Maybe even some gods will seek to bring a newly born divinity under their control….”

Lust smiled at the panicking look on Seth’s face and said: “That’s quite the look you have on your face. If someone were to say the God of Destruction was worrying so much about a baby divinity of light, probably even I would have laughed it out as the greatest joke of all time.”

“Lust…” muttered Seth in annoyance.

“Calm down. It’s not the end of the world yet. It will take some time for their fusion to be complete. Perception, and I can also delay it further. If things go well, we should be able to make it.”

“Make it?” asked Seth in confusion.

“Delay it long enough for you to ask for help.”

“Help…” muttered Seth. “The only one who I could ever trust to help her is - “

“That’s right, Razim. If you manage to get Razim to keep her safe, there won’t be anything for you to worry about. At least for a while. The other gods will lose interest once she’s under Razim’s protection and what demigod will be crazy enough to challenge a god with a demigod army under her.”

“That might work… but dealing with Razim is also not as easy as you make it sound, Lust. She’s the easiest god to control, but she’s still a god. Plus, I need her help to stop Kronos from finding me… obtaining two favors from her won’t be easy….”

“Then you need to try your hardest. Only a true god can protect her from the chaos that will erupt once her divinity is formed.”

Sighing, Seth nodded with a serious look. “I’ll figure something out. Can you and perception take care of delaying her fusion?”

Lust smiled and looked at her little sister. “We can; can’t we sister?”

“Yes, master. I will help.” Little perception nodded as well.

“Good. What do you need me to do?” asked Seth.

“Not much. You need to mark her using your perception energy so you can also form a link between my sister and her. After that, we’ll take care of the rest. Also, don’t move too far away from her since that will break the link.”

“Alright. I wasn’t planning on leaving this place anyway until I got an answer from Razim. Thanks again, Lust.”

“Be careful, master.” Replied Lust with a sweet smile and the space around Seth crumbled, pushing him to wake back up inside Leora’s bed, their bodies still connected.

Looking at the rainbow-colored bubble around him, Seth recognized it as the same energy from the spirit well. Shaking his head, he pushed the thoughts about Lust’s secrets out of his mind before placing a hand on Leora’s forehead and filling her soul with perception energy.

As the mark of perception appeared on her forehead and he started feeling sleepy, he stood up and cleaned their bodies before creating some clothes and teleporting them on their bodies.

The bubble around shortly faded in thin air, and he noticed the room was now filled with his lovers, and even Iris came to take a look.

Seeing the worried looks on everyone’s faces as they stared at him, Seth smiled wryly and said: “She’s fine.”

A collective sigh of relief resounded throughout the room, and Hollie asked: “What happened?”

“I’ll tell you later. For now, Henrietta, I need you to take Leora down inside the spring we’ve been preparing for our seclusion. Make sure to find her a room to stay in since she’ll be unconscious for quite a long time. Once you’re done, come back.”

Henrietta nodded without hesitation and moved to grab Leora’s hand, teleporting along her. Seth then looked at the unconscious Katy on the side and said to Maya: “Can you take her to her room so she can rest? I imagine my lust energy needed her, but she should wake up in a while.”

After Maya left, Seth laid back on the bed and heaved a long sigh.

Caitlin and Rebecca exchanged a look before turning towards the awkward-looking Iris, who was staring at the liquid covering the bed with a red face. Caitlin cleared her throat loudly and said: “We should leave Seth and Hollie to speak alone.”

Iris was startled from her thoughts and noticed Rebecca and Caitlin’s looks directed at her. With a nod, she also followed Caitlin and Rebecca in leaving the room.

Hollie came and looked worriedly at Seth lying on the bed. “What really happened?”

Seth turned to look at her before asking the system: ‘Are you up?’

Without a reply from the system, Seth opened his soul link and said: ‘Leora is awakening her divinity.’

“Huh? What?” Hollie was so surprised she even forgot to use the soul link, blushing before saying: ‘Sorry. How could that happen?’

‘I don’t understand it myself, but it is probably related to how light energy works. Its development speed is the greatest, creating a consciousness long ago. Now, it and Leora’s wills have started fusing, so there’s only a matter of time until her divinity also forms.

‘But she’s at the fourth shell… creating a divinity now and trying to shoulder it….’

Seth nodded and explained his conversation with Lust. After Seth’s story was over, Hollie nodded and said: ‘If you say you can trust Razim, and Lust can indeed delay the process, it might work. Did you ask her about Katy?’

Seth’s face twitched and gave Hollie a wry look: ‘I was so worried about Leora that I… forgot.’

Hollie chuckled at his ashamed expression and said: ‘It should be fine. If there was anything to worry about, Lust would have probably mentioned it herself.’

‘I guess so…’ said Seth. ‘Things have been so chaotic lately, with both Katy and now Leora, that even I’m starting to feel overwhelmed….’

Hollie smiled and laid down next to Seth, pulling him into her arms: ‘Do you want me to help you relax?’

Seth wrapped his arms around her as well, shaking his head: ‘I’d love to, but I need to think of a way to convince Razim to help. Since she probably knows I am the one who broke space-time, she might ask about the future or my past, and if I were to tell her the truth...’

‘I understand that, but I doubt you will come to an answer right now. Let’s take some time to clear your mind, and once you’re relaxed, you can start thinking about how to proceed further.’

Seth smiled and pulled away from Hollie, tracing a line with his finger over her chest, releasing her modest breasts out of their clothes and nesting his head between them. ‘Then I guess I’ll relax here.’

Hollie chuckled and held his head against her chest. ‘I’m quite small for this. Maya will be a lot better.’

‘Maybe, but I’ll take what I can get.’ Replied Seth.

Hollie looked down and started pulling on Seth’s ear. ‘You didn’t have to agree to that, you know?’

As the two were joking around in bed, Henrietta returned and looked at the two with a raised eyebrow. “What the hell are you two doing?”

Seth peeked up from Hollie’s breasts and lifted a hand with a smile: “Come join us.”

Henrietta was confused, but after seeing Hollie give her a wink, she teleported to Seth’s other side and spooned his body from the back, removing both of their clothes in the process.

Feeling Seth wanted to turn around, Hollie kept him firmly in place and said: “Don’t even think about it.”

“What are you talking about?” asked Henrietta with a curious look, moving her hand to seek Seth’s rod between his legs.

“Nothing.” Replied both Hollie and Seth as the door to the room swung open, and Maya looked at everyone with a raised eyebrow.

“You make us all worry, and now you’re here fooling around with Hollie and Henrietta?”

Seth looked up from Hollie’s breasts again and asked: “So, don’t you want to join us?”

Maya’s eyebrow relaxed, and she smiled as her energy broke all of her clothes, and she jumped from the door to the bed, falling right above Seth, drowning his head with her massive breasts.

“Who said I won’t?” Maya said as a tendril of energy closed the door behind her.

Seeing Seth turn his head around, sucking on Maya’s breasts like a starved baby, Hollie sighed in resignation.

Maya smiled triumphantly toward her and said: “What? Do you want some as well? It’s enough there for everyone.”

Hollie scuffed and started moving down Seth’s body, bringing her head to Seth’s crotch.

“Bitch.”