Extra 1: Please teach us, Yuri-sensei !
This is a double update, if you didn't read the previous chapter, please do so or you won't understand this !
God's game is an unofficial contest the Game masters set up to determine who exactly would be worthy of becoming a GameSage, or in short, GS.
For all of the humans, they're inspired from real life human faith.
The attribution would follow the Norse pantheon for the Nordics, the Hellenic one for the midlands, and the Buddhist one for Ardens.
Well, those are the ones I researched anyways.
The atmosphere in those pantheons and cultures aren't the same at all.
For example, the power balance in the hellenic faith.
During the titanomachy, Zeus and his divine siblings fought against his parents, the titans, and manage to take the power to reign over humans from them.
After this, Zeus pretty much strong-armed his siblings into obeying him (and raped his sister to force her to marry him...).
This particular pantheon is marked by violence, power struggles, and them committing almost any crime unpunished.
Because of that, (now that I (accidentally and against my own will) became a Nordic GS I've learned about the selection method) two sets of the same divine blessing have been sent, one to a beta tester, and one to a non-subscriber, to not only have the then-demigods fight for power, but also to determine if a smarter non player is better than a beta tester.
Six months in the game, it's still a free for all , save for the irregularity, Cronos, and Artemis, since her blessing has been sent only once. The GMs decided to have another titanomachy later.
I'm pretty glad I escaped that fate.
For the Norse, the gods 'have always been', in a sense. It was more about defending themselves from others, really. Well, There is Loki, but he's an exception to prove the rule.
Our rules are different, and we are chosen because of our notoriety and actions in game usually.
My case was a particular one, and it's all Odin's fault. That guy's ideas of a joke are twisted, really.
Because I became really well known as a cupid for a thing I didn't remember, and for giving out protagonist flags ( that one I remember) Odin, in his great wisdom, decided to call me Freyja. Then the GMs stalked me.
Apparently I amused them so much that I provisionally became Freyja ' for real' in game.
Goddess of love, beauty, gold, war, and death, some of those dominions shared with others ( For example, death is divided between Freyja, Odin and Hel)
Well, I was provisionally it, because I never used my blessings or my title, but there was something I didn't think about.
Fanatics.
I hate them, everything's their fault. Once the rumor and description were aired by that bastard Odin ( I'll get him one day, painfully), copycats of my glorious self appeared and started acting like me. Since everyone knew that apparently I 'gave love advice' and 'handed out quests', each of the 'Freyja' that actually managed to do so added to MY prestige. Which means that , in the ranking of possible Freyja, I couldn't be beaten.
And now that we're at half a year, that cannot change anymore.
I tried to run away from the game, but stuff (omiai, thank you and die painfully daddy dearest) happened and I had to come back.
Currently, between our three pantheons, the Nordics are complete, so are the Ardents.
The midlanders are a total mess and we don't dare to get involved, so when there's a GS meeting, we mostly socialize between our 2 pantheons. I've met Akashagarbha, they're pretty nice. Each of their gods have multiple facets in Ardens, so there's multiple players for the same god...
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What we're doing in game? Bless things, mostly. The divine events won't start before one year, since most of the map remains unexplored, and that the demon race hasn't expanded enough to be a 'threat'.
We also organize events or do some moderation. Well , 'we'... Since I refuse to accept all of that, I only build my fortress. My pantheon gave me the okay ,and use their powers to teleport and crash at my place if they've got nothing better to do. So my stupid brother uses most of his time to stalk me. I send him do quests when he becomes too unsupportable.
The worst in all this is that my castle will be showcased since it's the game's first big project, and they menaced to reveal my Player ID if I don't make it look nice, the god damned slavers! So now people will try to come here !
Cheshire doesn't like that idiot either, so he's higher in my book than that idiot.
Speaking of him, he stays often, but avoids the idiot, lucky him. He sadly found out about my 'secret' but apparently, he already knew, something about me being too ridiculous to pull off the things I did.
Well excuse me mister, but everything I did was 100% me, so there!
I don't really know what will happen at the 1 year mark, but I know I don't want to be here when it happens.
Ah, sorry dear brother, some ice slabs weren't stuck good enough and squished you in your 'hiding to stalk onee-chan' place...
Sadly, that guy is the leader of his guild, and a well known paladin ( he was a fighter, but got a upgrade upon becoming a god), who managed to kill alone a lvl 100 world boss [Midgard serpent], which gave him an instant place among the GS as Thor, god of thunder. But he insists on lightning because it's cooler according to him.
We are forbidden to reveal our identities though, and I won't bother to try, because that would mean brother dearest would learn both my ID and my 'secret appearance'. When it comes to me he's very dumb.
Ah, Kott, you're such a dutiful cat, trying to help brother away from that dangerous, dangerous place by biting him ~
I didn't level up once, so I'm still level 16, but I pretty much maxed out the few skills I had.
The brat came up again. We started a 2-man guild, because people ( mostly pedos and my brother) kept inviting us and we were tired of it. What does he want this time?
Ah, fish. Even my cooking's blessed, it's a chore, but he exploits it for his worth.
Oooh, he kicked brother in the face for calling him a girl again.
Politics are going to hell right now, so now's not the time to trade anyways, the midlanders have finally all gone bonkers (like their gods) and are currently warring to name a new king. The last one has been killed by a cocky bear-man. So the south is currently isolated and at the mercy of elves and dwarves. Well, not really, the place they want is also along our borders, so they can't move as they please or we'll have a 2v2 and I know for a fact their pantheons aren't complete yet. I beat one of them up recently when he tried to sabotage my castle and got off scott free.
Aaaah, that's a chore.
Finally maxed out my Ice magic.
I'm tired, I want a vacatioooooon.
*Sigh*
Screw you Odin, everything's your fault.
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I was debating whether or not post it today or tomorrow, and told myself "If I don't do it now, I'm gonna forget again" so here it is.
And thanks cylinder to his vote :3