Pocket Dimension / Natasha’s Inventory…
Natasha’s POV
My ship turned into trillions of metric tons of scraps that can be recycled. The planet-sized ship is not easy to take down because it has a barrier but the insides are too vulnerable even there’s a protection to protect something that will cause multiple massive explosions. Everything has a weakness just like an indestructible monster that can be killed from the inside or just simply grab the soul away from its body.
Anyways, the baby is safe and I better inform my people about me, having a human child. My mission didn’t specify how I introduce the baby. I want this boy to see the positive reactions of my people while declaring that he’s my son because his intelligence is obviously can’t be underestimated. He might be a newborn baby but because of his abnormal stats, he can walk or run by himself if he wants to just like in his deleted memories. I used ˹Spoiler˼ to see the baby’s future but I saw nothing and it irritates me to the extent.
How am I supposed to know if this child likes me or not? I want to be ready and find out how to look appealing and trustworthy. Well, let’s hope my new plan will succeed.
Since Orion is still unconscious, I’ll inform my people through live stream and I hope using God’s words can be helpful to make them understand my intentions.
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World of the Forgotten Souls #696,969,696
Night Time
Elios’ POV
Since Jabari isn’t here with us, I and my siblings never planned to talk one of those crows who’re still flying around those massive black octahedrons. We just silently watched them from afar but Cassy broke the silence.
“I really want to change my clothes right now.”
Of course, Cassy is still wearing that disgusting blue bathrobe and Natasha forgot to give her new set of clothes before letting us walking around in her Pocket Dimension filled with countless man-made worlds or should I say, shadow-made worlds.
I glanced at my Memo and a brilliant idea popped up in my mind, “Maybe there’s a world related to your problem, sis.”
After typing the word ‘clothes’ in the search bar, there is only one world that will solve Cassy’s problem. The image of the world is the same as the World of the Forgotten Souls, it has a spherical shape and blue color but there are 3 moons.
World of Fashion
Description: The only world for the Fashion Department.
Before I could press the teleport button, Cassy is the one who did it as she said in excitement, “Let’s go there!”
After the glowing purple transparent cylinder teleported us to another world, we are standing in the middle of the concrete road and we were almost hit by a teardrop-shaped hovering sleek black vehicle. And because of this incident, every strange vehicle stopped as well in silence to avoid bumping each other.
At this moment, I have a chance to observe this world. Its night time and the gray skyscrapers were almost similar to Avarice Empire’s cities but this city’s vehicles are so strange in different sizes and designs. I am familiar with metal carriage unfortunately, some of them have wheels that were made of materials that I never see before. They’re not even using some animals to carry a carriage or magic crystals and we also saw some strange animals as their pets. Their light posts are also not using magic crystals to light up the night.
Then all of a sudden, I can feel their eyes looking at us even some of them are inside the buildings. A few moments of silence, the people who are inside of the vehicles exited as pulling out their memos and start to use it to capture our image and some of them are flying just to get a better shot. The system taught me earlier about the functions of the camera and social media. I guess I and my siblings are going to become a trending topic but I hadn’t followed or subscribed to anybody.
Cassy became more uncomfortable as she hides behind me and Carl. Maybe she’s too shy to show her herself because of her clothing. When I looked back at those people who are still capturing our images, I noticed that most of them are women in strange clothing and accessories. I think this world has fewer numbers of men compared to women.
“Ehem! Ladies and gentle shadows. Get back to work!” A voice of a girl with a slightly irritated tone coming from a vehicle that nearly hit us earlier.
The people immediately returned to their original spot and the 5 ft. girl in black military uniform who seemed to be a few years younger than my siblings exited from her ride. She’s also didn’t wear her hat just like Rockie but the design of her uniform is different. She has long black hair that reached her waist, pale skin, and she looks familiar. I guess I saw her inside the underground main palace. Looking at her insignia on her shoulders, she has three purple stars just like Rockie which means she’s also a Lieutenant General.
“General Avarice, would you and your siblings come with me?” The girl asked politely as her vehicle disappeared out of thin air but she seemed didn’t care about it as she stood in front of us, putting her left hand on her hip.
She even levitated and winked. Calling Cassy and Carl as siblings is a bit suspicious because Rockie and Jabari called them familiars.
We followed her silently until reaching inside the shop full of female clothes, shoes, and accessories. It’s so spacious compared to the outside and the girls said as she smiled, gently pulling Cassy’s wrist, “Welcome to my shop! I’m Lieutenant General Yima Lee, Mist type shadow, the Head of Fashion Department. General gave me the highest authority in this world because I am talented at this stuff. Ehehe!”
The mist type shadows shouldn’t have legs but she has a pair of legs. Yima didn’t even use her legs to walk on the ground because she’s merely floating while helping Cassy to choose some clothes.
“This pink mini dress looks perfect for you!” Yima cheerfully said as she gave the pink dress and undergarments to Cassy.
Then Yima gently pushed her inside the room where the customers wear their chosen clothes, “Get inside and get dressed. Don’t worry, nobody can see, feel, smell, or hear you in there because its materials are used for isolation.”
After Cassy entered the most secured fitting room, my shadow senses indeed failed me to see her in there. Yima turned around to face us and smiled but she’s still not using her legs.
“Why are you floating?” The stupid question escaped from my mouth and I couldn’t help but mentally facepalm when she finally stood there using her feet.
“I float because I want to. Ehehe!” Yima replied and giggled.
I should apologize to her for causing too much trouble earlier, “By the way, I’m sorry for transporting in a wrong location because I’m not used to my memo.”
“That’s perfectly fine. You’ll master it tomorrow or a week later.”
“Why you’re not calling my siblings as familiars like LTG Rockie and Jabari?” My question didn’t make her looked surprised as if she’s expecting this to happen.
“Because those two warned us through TwitMe, MeTube, and other social media apps,” Yima replied with her cheery aura as she showed her memo and gave me her number.
Then her eyes glanced at our body, “Your clothes just now are my creations. I created that with enchantment to protect the wearer from harm. If you want to get more clothes for free, here’s the location of my Men’s Clothing Shop.”
My memo vibrated and looked at its screen. I indeed received Yima’s 2nd shop’s location and it’s just right behind her Females’ Clothing Shop.
“You mean, our clothes are armors?” Carl asked curiously.
Yima nodded cheerfully, “Yes! And you know what? Every fashion designer is like a magic armor designer. Our clothes may look normal but they’re all have been enchanted. Don’t worry, 75% of them are cheap because it depends on materials and how strong their protection is. We are so thankful to our God because our leader has the power to provide us unlimited resources.”
I widened my eyes in disbelief because in Avarice Empire only nobles, high ranked soldiers, and royalties can wear those types of clothes but in here, they’re just for fashion. They have less value here because of what Yima said to us, Natasha has the power to provide everything for her people. She’s like a god.
Is there anything that she can’t give?
I guess there is but I don’t dare to say it out loud. When Cassy finally exited the fitting room, she looks stunning. Then Yima let her wear a new pair of white shoes that have 6 inches pointy heels. I wonder how women in this world can walk with those types of shoes.
Cassy practiced walking with those shoes while Yima went inside the fitting room to change. Then she exited with her tight red dress while wearing red accessories. Her hair was tied in twin buns but her red shoes have also long and pointy heels. With that outfit, how can she able to walk so freely? If I’m a woman who wears that outfit, I guess it’ll take years for me to get used to it.
However, Yima’s shop has a lot of customers this night but they simply went to the wall where the box-shaped machines wrapped their chosen items. Then they used their metal cards to let the machines scanned it before they exited the shop. I’m a bit familiar with that kind of transaction because they have that at Avarice Empire but what kind of currency are they using? Was it gold or gems? Anyways, I don’t see any employees here as if Yima is alone.
“It’s so strange. Where are your employees?”
“I don’t need employees to manage everything in this huge building because the robots will handle it. All I have to do is to restock the items, and attend the annual fashion contest.”
I looked around but I don’t see any robots in here and another strange thing is no one trying to steal stuff as if the people here are well-disciplined. Unfortunately, I didn’t say anything because Yima seemed she’s in a hurry as she called someone from her memo.
“Chef! Are you free today?”
“Don’t disturb me. I’m in the middle of my Live Streaming.” The man’s voice is very deep and he sounds a bit annoyed at Yima.
Yima giggled with her innocent smile, “But General Avarice and his siblings are with me. I want to invite them to your restaurant.”
“I hope this is not your prank or you’ll be the main ingredient for my new recipe.” This guy sounds serious and I hope he’s just joking as the call ended.
Yima looked at me and pointed at my memo, “Open your MeTube and search Mercel. He’s currently live streaming right now.”
I followed her instructions and I immediately found it. The dark-skinned bald man in black doctor suit with glowing Red Cross on his right arm looks angry and intimidating. However, his physic is almost the same as Kale’s, the general of Avarice Empire but Mercel is a bit bigger than him.
This Mercel guy is standing seriously and behind him looks amazing. Everything is white and has blue holograms. The architecture of that hospital is unordinary.
“Sorry for delaying the animal brain surgery because we have our special guests in my restaurant today. But I won’t stop this live stream because I’ll show you how I prepare my dishes starting at my farm.” Mercel continued as he typed something in his memo, “I’ll pick some fresh ingredients for cooking our greatest delicacies.”
Then he disappeared just like us using the power of the memo but the background changed. I and my siblings watched Mercel’s live stream in disbelief. Mercel is in a farmer outfit as he walking towards the farm fields. He showed us different flowers, fruits, vegetables, and livestock.
“Since we’re done picking the ingredients, let’s head to my kitchen while our guests are waiting in the dining room.”
“We have to go now.” I said, looking at Yima.
She nodded and the cylinder thing teleported us inside an extravagant dining room. The white light coming from the chandeliers lighting this entire room. Everything here is white and tinted with gold. This room is spacious and there’s a long white table with several luxurious chairs. On top of the table was decorated with vases of flowers, plates, napkins, and other fancy things on it but there’s still no food in there.
“Is this our chance to eat something fancy?” Cassy asked excitedly and Yima answered immediately, “Yes! And it’s free because you guys are special!”
Hearing that word ‘special’ is just a bit too much for us to handle. We hadn’t done anything that would contribute to this shadow realm but if we are special, then we’ll work hard for that.
Yima let us sit and as we waited for the food, we watched Mercel’s live stream. Mercel is in a black and white chef outfit just like the other chefs in his kitchen but he’s the biggest person and the one who leads this cooking show. Well, all of them seemed big for being chefs in a spacious black and white kitchen. The men and women are muscular or fat which is very surprising for us. They are cooking with very serious faces but they’re not struggling at all even they’re huge as if those people are born talented in cooking.
When they’re done, the 15 ft. tall black double doors were opened on its own and the chefs together with their dishes walked towards our table in an orderly manner. Even they’re still 25 ft. away from us, the odor of those delicious foods entered to our nostrils. We may not know what’s inside of those metal or glass plates or whatever they called those food containers, we are mentally drooling in here. Then I also saw a floating small spherical-shaped black drone with them. I think that thing is used for recording the live stream.
As they’re a few feet closer to us, we can finally see Mercel from the last line and he’s so intimidating in person. The shortest of those chefs is 7 ft. and the tallest is Mercel for being 10 ft. tall. We can’t believe those giants are chefs. Kale is only an 8 ft. tall guy and if Mercel has a chance to face him, I wonder what will be his reaction after seeing a guy who almost looks like him if he wears his signature mask and Avarian Military Uniform.
When those chefs reached our table, they simultaneously put their masterpieces on it and stood on their spot as they waited for Mercel to say something. The drone floated in front of me and Mercel stood behind me then he said, “General Avarice, say hi to the camera because many viewers are watching my channel and they’re about 2 quintillion.”
That’s a lot of viewers!
What if Natasha is watching Mercel’s channel right now?
If I mess this up, it will tarnish my image.
I better release my ultimate charm and hoping that Natasha will fall for me.
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Earth Year Ər%0*
5:30 a.m.
Natasha’s POV
I was about to start my Live Stream but Lieutenant General Brown is active and he’s one of my favorite channels. I watched him and his chefs cooking in his kitchen until they served it to Elios, his siblings, and Lieutenant General Lee. Elios smiled as he introduced himself in front of the camera.
“His live stream will take longer than I expected. How am I supposed to speed this up? So it’ll be my turn to live stream.”
I left a top comment so LTG Brown will notice it and hoping his live stream ended quickly.
“Oh? Did someone become a top comment? Wait a minute…” LTG Brown narrowed his eyes as he looked closer to his memo then he widened his eyes in shock, “Holy lemons! General left a comment!”
“What did she say?” Elios asked LTG Brown and he replied with a smile, “She said, ‘I want to see how fast Elios can eat those foods and next time, we’ll have an eating contest.’”
“Eating contest… Hmm…” Elios smiled as his cheeks darkened which means he’s blushing.
“But what about us?” LTG Lee asked with her puppy eyes but LTG Brown only gave her a grim look on his face.
LTG Lee pouted as she crossed her arms, “You better feed us after this live stream.”
“Uh. What is this?” Elios asked as he pointed at the white ceramic bowl.
“It’s Shuyo. A common type of ramen. Use these chopsticks and I’ll teach you the proper way to eat it.” LTG Brown summoned a pair of black chopsticks reinforced with purple crystals from his spatial ring and gave it to Elios.
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LTG Brown sat beside Elios as the small chair adjusted its size because the user is a huge person.
Elios observed the chopsticks that he held and asked curiously, “Why these sticks are made of corrupted metals and reinforced with crystals? These materials are supposedly used as weapons.”
“Because those simple little things are weapons to kill our targets. Even the non-corrupted things around you can be used as weapons to defend yourself from your enemies if they’re weak enough to die. Thanks to our Generals’ badass lessons, we learned that every simple thing around us can be used as weapons of death such as rocks. She said that we have to be creative on how to kill our prey. So some of us used cups, spatula, and other non-violent looking kitchen utensils as weapons.” LTG Brown replied proudly.
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LTG Lee added, “Don’t think we wasted our resources just to create non-inconvenient looking weapons. If we had a chance to kill our enemies in the most humiliating way, we will use these types of weapons. Just take your chopsticks and my knitting needles as the perfect example.”
LTG Brown continued the discussion, “We’re just saying about this stuff because some weapons looked so harmless just like Yima’s creations. You don’t know that those clothes, shoes, accessories, and other fancy stuff you’re wearing right now are actually the stealthy monsters that will eat you anytime.”
“Baldy! Don’t scare my new customers!” LTG Lee yelled.
“I’m just trying to warn them. Your pets are so hard to find with our current technology and even our Shadow Senses failed to detect them. Good thing our General put those things in control but I can’t forget how those filthy things ate my flower garden while the straw hat that I’m wearing bit my head.”
Hearing these facts made Elios smiled awkwardly.
“Sorry, we shouldn’t talk about disgusting things in front of the food.” LTG Brown smiled apologetically as he put his chef hat aside and summoned his own chopsticks then grabbed another bowl of ramen. Even his hands looked big and strong, he didn’t break that small fragile bowl. Then he showed Elios how to use those chopsticks and ate the noodles of the ramen with a slurping sound. Elios didn’t fail as he imitated LTG Brown with ease which made the shadows gasped in surprise.
Elios gave them a questioning look and asked, “Did I do something wrong?”
LTG Brown smiled as he put down his chopsticks, “As we expected, you are a genius. This type of practice took us months to master it while the oracles took them a few days. And if you don’t like slurping the noodles or the soup, eat somewhere that no one sees you eating it. I just tell you this because that’s how passerby, howlers, mists, and oracles eating their food. They are silent eaters.”
Hearing the facts, LTG Lee couldn’t help but floating behind LTG Brown and punched his bald head multiple times as if he’s a punching bag. Fortunately, he didn’t budge and his face looks unfazed at her attack.
“Why are you so worked up about it, Yima? I didn’t break the rules and ended up going back to level zero.”
LTG Lee stopped punching and clenched her fists, “You big dummy! Why did you say embarrassing things to General Avarice as if you’re talking to him in a private place?! Just look at your memo, I’m sure some of your viewers disliked or angry reactions to your live stream! The worst is, you’ll lose subscribers and I’m one of them!”
“Embarrassing things? I just told him the facts.” LTG Brown continued as he turned his head at his chefs, “Right guys?”
The chefs nodded in agreement and LTG Lee facepalmed in defeat. Of course, those big chefs are dense and shameless.
“I hope your laziness comes back at you.” LTG Lee cursed at him before she goes back to her seat.
LTG Brown began to act like he loses interest to continue teaching Elios how to eat the other foods and cursed at LTG Lee, “Curses! Now, look at what you’ve done to me, Yima. I don’t feel energetic to do anything today. I’m going to sit here until this laziness subsided.”
LTG Lee only giggled at him while the chefs began to sit on the floor and played something in their memos. LTG Brown’s ˹Laziness 1˼ passive skill is extremely contagious and only Titans like himself will be affected by it.
Even in his sloth condition, he can still talk like a normal person, “General Avarice, you better eat fast or the noodles will expand. Well, if you like expanded noodles, then I don’t stop you.”
Elios is silent since he ate the ramen but his eyes suddenly become teary as if he remembered his past that he didn’t want to remember. Well, he tried to hold back his manly tears but he failed as it rolled down his cheeks. Fortunately, the table has lots of napkins to wipe his tears. The shadows and his siblings in that room seemed worried and shocked. Even I, myself didn’t expect that to happen or maybe this is just his act.
“Honestly, this is the most delicious food that I’ve ever tasted in my entire life. Thank you, Chef Mercel.”
LTG Brown tapped Elios’ shoulder and said as his purple eyes glowed, “I see… You didn’t eat properly out there even you don’t feel hungry or full. Don’t worry, if you want to eat something, you can teleport here. I can even teach you how to cook if you want to learn.”
The chefs clapped their hands as if they supported LTG Brown’s words.
LTG Lee’s purple eyes glowed as she cracked her knuckles, “Tsk! Who bullied you General Avarice? We’ll beat them if our General gives us an order.”
I never thought these shadows would pity the pitiful General Avarice. The comment section is full of sad, hug, and love emojis. They even forgot that Elios’ siblings are there, watching this drama. I think Elios is not the only one who’s suffering from being abused by our enemies.
LTG Brown looked at the camera and said, “Don’t forget to hit the react button and subscribe to my channel. My name is Mercel and see you next week.”
His live stream ended and it’s my turn. The drones floated in front of me and I glanced at my memo which shows the numbers of my viewers. As always, all of my soldiers are watching right now. Good thing the Gate of the Abyss is still active so my soldiers who’re still in the Underground Base can see my live stream. I hide the baby from my darkness so the viewers couldn’t see him because this is not the right time.
“Announcement. Our God gave me a new order and I hope you accept the fact… That I stole a human child from our enemy’s stronghold called Avarice Empire where General Avarice and his siblings are being locked up to satisfy their greed.”
I paused and looked at my viewers’ reactions. There are like or evil laughs react but most of them are wow react.
“You may evil laugh react but this human baby is not normal. He can kill me if our God wasn’t beside me which means... He has the blessing from the One True God”
I continued while receiving angry reacts but none of them are commenting, “But for now, he’s harmless… And about the new order… Our God wants me to adopt and take care of the child alone until he reached 7 years of age. I want you all to cooperate with me. All you have to do is to accept the child as one of our kind once he wakes up.”
“I know it’s hard for you to accept him like you’re trying to swallow a pill for the first time because he’s a blessed child but our God has a perfect solution for this little problem and you know how genius he is. And I hope you believe in his hidden brilliant ideas.” With my confident smile, I received more wow reacts.
“I repeat, you have to cooperate with me. All you have to do is to accept the child as one of our kind once he wakes up. But when is he going to wake up? I’ll tell you once he regains his consciousness and all of you must be prepared. The venue will be in the middle of the Shadow Continent.”
I paused once more while glancing at the comment section but it’s still empty as if they’re afraid to leave a comment, “Lieutenant General Albert Einstein… I know you’re watching this live stream, you’ll the one to decide who’ll become the designer of the venue… Lieutenant General Yima Lee, you have to come to my 1st main office at 6 a.m.”
Before I end my live stream, I’ll try to comfort that crybaby.
“And last, General Avarice… I know you’re upset but next time I see you cry again, I will give you a hug.” I continued as my eyes glowing intensely, “But don’t abuse my kindness because I’ll kill you if you do that.”
My words just now made my people gave me love react. I thought they’re going to judge me like humans would do but none of them left a comment. Even I’m with them for millions of years, it’s impossible for them not to be affected by the crab mentality because they learned so much about humanity. If the system didn’t lie to me, the power of Loyalty stat is insanely powerful.
“Avarice… Boy… Please be patient… There will be a perfect time to let them taste our revenge.”
I wanted to end the live stream after saying those words because I’m sure I cheered him up but my mouth suddenly moves on its own, “Their fate has been sealed and I’m certain that those mortals will never sleep in peace. Since the Avarice Empire lost one of their blessed people, the whole world shall fear what awaits them all in the future.”
After that, the drones suddenly shut down and I can finally control my mouth. This strange event has been done by someone stronger than me. Of course, Crack did this to me.
Why would he intervene in my live stream?
He’s probably triggered after knowing his pitiful general’s past.
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Cassy’s POV
After Natasha’s Live Stream ended, I suddenly can’t move my entire body while the people around me are not moving as well. However, the second hand of the wall clock didn’t move.
What in the world is happening here?
“Krak! I stopped the time of this world.” The familiar voice answered my question which means he can read my thoughts.
The strange man appeared in front of me as he floated on top of the table. He better not touch the untouched food or else, they might taste funny if we eat them.
What do you want?
His blue and red eyes glowed as he smiled, “You knew something about the God Defier title.”
I blushed after hearing our God knew my dark past but since he’s ancient, he’s a very understanding being so there’s no need for me to feel embarrassed.
As I expected, a god can see everything but why are you suddenly talking to me privately?
He removed his hat and scratch the back of his head. Unfortunately, his dandruff or head lice landed on the food as toppings but those disgusting things disappeared. Now I don’t want to eat some of Mercel’s best dishes.
“My reason? It’s complicated. Anyways, let’s get to the point.” Our God continued as he picked his nose, “Natasha saw Orion’s memories which means–”
I cut him off because I assume our Dark Messiah saw everything. I can’t help but blushed and mentally yelled at our God.
Please don’t say it! And I’m sorry for yelling at you.
Our God flicked his booger and it landed on my big brother’s ramen and I hope it disappeared too, “Yeah. Whatever. That stupid ice boy is not the only one who wants to achieve that goal.”
“Whatever you knew about it is true but you miss one thing. Only one person can hold that title. Even many retarded people tried to achieve that goal is impossible because I’m the first and the current titleholder. Unless someone can defeat me and become the new holder of God Defier title. Second…”
You said I miss one thing.
“Because I forgot to count. Krak! Krak! Krak!”
I mentally facepalmed and he continued.
“Second, that title only gave me a retarded tiny boost. It’s cracking useless to me. And lastly, before I acquired that title, I already made my independent system. So, yeah… That title is trash.”
It’s because you waste so much time before you got that title.
He summoned his transparent purple crystal ball and said, “Nah! The result is not cool. I’ll die in one shot.”
If I can move my face, I would’ve widened my eyes in shock.
What?! No way!
“Yes way! Because my trump cards are not enough to beat his ass. Then I made a whole deck and I’m sure I win in the near future! Krak! Krak! Krak!”
You made a whole deck… I don’t understand. Your words are so deep. I am not worthy to talk with you.
His smile became wider than before, “Oh? If you want to understand, then talk to Natasha and maybe you’ll become closer to her.”
Our God sprinkled some dried leaves and dead cockroaches on the remaining untouched food but all those things just disappeared, “There! I blessed your food.”
Then he vanished and the second hand of the clock slowly moving. I better not tell them about this because only Natasha will probably understand me.
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Elios’ POV
After watching Natasha’s live stream, I never expected her to cheer me up and now I feel better.
“You big dummy! You’ve been talking a lot since the beginning of your live stream but you forgot to properly introduce yourself to General Avarice.” Yima yelled from her seat but Mercel yawned and lazily stared at her.
Yima sighed in defeat and pulled out her memo, showing me something. What I saw is Mercel in a black military uniform who’s standing somewhere in a dangerous place because the sky is raining purple fire.
“He’s Lieutenant General Mercel Brown, a Titan type shadow. He’s the Head of Health Department, Head of Agricultural Arts Department and Head of Culinary Arts Department.”
So that’s why these guys are big but now they’re lazy.
Titan type shadows are known as contagious lazy giants. Their laziness is one of their weapons during the Shadow Wars and they can be healers, damage, or tanks. Those mountain-sized shadows are now in human forms but they showed me their talent in cooking.
When I ate the noodles of ramen earlier, it gave me temporary buffs which means those foods aren’t normal.
“Can we eat now?” Carl who looks impatient asked and Mercel nodded.
Carl started eating but Cassy seemed to hesitate. I frowned at Cassy and signaled her to eat at least one dish. In the end, she ate some sliced fruits.
Yima continued, “Jabari texted me about you asking something related to our war experience. Well, you see… Our strategy is a bit primitive. Just like Mercel’s image background. The rain of mountain-sized asteroids are the titans and they deal a huge amount of damage once they landed on the ground.”
“Did they jumped so high just to achieve that damage?”
Yima shook her head, “No… Each mist lifted 3 – 5 titans to the exosphere and dropped them to the targeted area. There’s also another reason why we, the Mist type shadows lifted them is because they’re too slow.”
“Woah! You’re so strong. Did you lift chef Mercel?” Carl asked before biting the chicken leg.
“Nope. I’m in the 2nd Legion while Mercel is in the 3rd Legion. So I lifted the other titans.”
“What about Lieutenant General Eve?”
“She’s in the 6th Legion.”
I want to ask more but she suddenly stood up and said before she teleported, “I better head back to my shop. Let’s talk next time.”
Mercel and the chefs are still lazy, I and Carl enjoyed eating the food on the table until there’s nothing left while Cassy only ate a plate of fruits. I don’t know why she didn’t eat much and watched us with an awkward smile. However, the system’s notification kept telling me that we are being blessed by our God but I ignored it. If we’re humans, we couldn’t finish them all. This day, we ate luxurious food and we sincerely thanked Mercel and the chefs.
“There’s a dessert and eat to your heart’s content.” Mercel said as he typed something from his memo and the floating drones exited from the hidden door of the ceiling as their pair of arms held the trays of sweet things.
Those drones taught us how to eat those desserts through holograms. Good thing the ice cream didn’t melt easily because the room’s temperature is a bit low. After eating the dessert, we bid farewell to Mercel and the chefs then we teleported back to the World of Gold.
I let my siblings walk around this world because I planned to talk to Natasha alone. I wanted to teleport in her ship but my memo said that it has been destroyed.
System: Don’t worry. She’s fine.
“Where is she?”
System: I’m sorry. You don’t have an access to teleport in the 1st artificial galaxy but you can still chat with her through video chat.
I shook my head in dismay and I teleported myself to the World of Diamond. Then I used the power of the system to video chat with her.
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Earth Year Ər%0*
5:49 a.m.
Natasha’s POV
I’m inside of my office, sitting on my luxurious black chair, and staring at my desk while the baby is sleeping inside the blue metal crib but I still covered him with my darkness so no one can see him. Then I received Elios’ video chat.
“Why are you calling me? I hope it’s important.”
Elios blushed and said as he showed me an old leather book, “Of course! It’s important.”
“And what’s that?” I asked, pointing at that thing he held.
“This is my ancestor’s diary. Unfortunately, the first 132 pages are missing as if someone purposely ripped it. However, everything in this diary is all about our God’s greatness and prophecy.”
I arched my left eyebrow, “Prophecy? That piqued my interest.”
“Yeah. About that. I can only summarize it for you because…” Elios paused as he showed me the contents of the diary.
The handwriting is worse than Crack and there’s a lot of erasures in every sentence. Some of the pages were stained with dirt, urine, poop, and blood or maybe ketchup. I also saw a lot of random stickman drawings and the culprit who ripped the missing pages is very obvious.
“I think a toddler ripped the pages because it left some childish doodles.” I said bluntly.
Elios shyly scratched the back of his head, “No one ever thought about that because we believed our ancestor did that to leave some clues but we failed to understand them or maybe you are right.”
I clasped my hands, “Then tell me about the prophecy. The summarized version.”
He heaved a deep breath and said, “Darkness will cover the skies one last time. The Game Changer is no longer a threat but the world even the One True God shall fear the one who decides on how to start and end the GAME. The Dark Messiah.”
I narrowed my eyes and analyzed the prophecy. There’s no doubt that Crack is the game changer because the world is full of players. I always assumed that his family is the game developers. Since I know the existence of the game changer, I assume Crack is probably sick of boring events so he turned himself into a player to make a new and badass event. So he became a game changer in a very unfair way and because of that, his dad patched the game to avoid losing many players.
Then the dark messiah is a new threat and not the game changer. And now I remember something interesting. Crack promised me that someday, I don’t need his help. I hope that day will come.
“I’m sorry for spouting those terms that can only be used by the gods because the ‘game’ word has been repetitively written many times.”
I mentally frowned because Elios kept saying that only gods can use the gaming terms, “You don’t have to apologize. Every gaming term is normally used in my territory. You can freely use it because our God won’t mind. If the time comes, not only the trash talk but they may also taste my double middle fingers.”
Elios gave me a confused look on his face and I said firmly, “Don’t misunderstand, my middle fingers are effective against gods.”
My skill ˹Double F. U.˼ skill may sound like a joke but I hope its effects against the gods are not a lie.
“Uhh… I see.” Elios couldn’t help but smiles awkwardly.
“Is that all you want to talk about?”
Elios shook his head, “I also want to talk about our religion and the divine beast that protects our refugee camp for 6,000 years. Because of that, our faith in him is still strong.”
I rested my head’s weight to my hand, “Divine Beast… Tell me about it.”
Elios tried to visualize the appearance of the divine beast as he drew it on the paper but it turns out to be so bad. Well, at least I can still describe it a little bit. That thing is a black goat with a humanoid upper body and a lower body of a goat which has 2 pairs of goat legs. It has 4 sword-like horns on the humanoid goat’s head and 3 pairs of eyes. It holds a spear and stood among the mountains as its height is a little bit taller than them which means that thing is a mountain-sized divine beast.
“We don’t know his name and species. All we know about him is, he’s the one who protected the refugees. We know nothing on how he prevented us from being hit by the One True God’s Light of Judgement even in his dying condition. The refugees may survive after the war but their life may never be the same again. The divine beast never said a word after he gave the diary to my ancestor’s son before he falls into the deep slumber until today if the barrier is still there.”
Their refugee camp probably became a city or a country if the divine beast protected them for so long. I want to ask more about the refugee camp but LTG Lee in a military uniform has arrived which made me ended the video chat. Good thing the entire metal crib has been covered with my darkness so she can’t see the baby.
Before she could salute I said, “Does look matters?”
She gave me a confused look and I continued, “The baby has abnormal stats and I became anxious about how I look. Do I appear qualified as the mother of a human child?”
The reason why I called LTG Lee is because she’s the Head of the Fashion Department. I want her help to make me look more appealing in the eyes of the child. Even I have a high number of charisma, I’m still anxious about the child’s first impression. Based on his deleted memories, he doesn’t like the appearance of the good-looking or ugly people. I don’t even understand why he likes Cassy.
Speaking of Cassy, she is a shadow walker.
Does that mean Orion has a shadow walker fetish?
But I’m a shadow.
I sighed even I don’t have the internal organs to achieve that simple human gesture. I hope he likes shadows so he’s easy to manipulate and he’ll never defy me. I don’t want him to end up like my son just because he wants his stupid dreams to come true.
LTG Lee pondered for a moment as she stared at me and smiled, “Both shadow and human form… You’re already beautiful in our eyes. I bet the human child will love you at first sight. Ehehe!”
“I hope so… But.”
LTG Lee held her breath even she doesn’t have internal organs to achieve that human gesture and I said, “I’m still lacking something. I may know how to take care of an annoying human child but…”
I paused and trying to form a sentence that would make this fashion freak feel motivated and help me to look appealing then I gave her a determined look on my face, “I’m just trying to make sure that he loves me as a mother at first sight and even I told him the truth why he’s with me, he’ll never see his blood relatives as his loved ones.”
LTG Lee gasped as she covered her mouth but behind that shocked look on her face, the smell of her emotion is pure evil excitement. I can imagine how her beautiful human face twisted so badly and made her looked so ugly while smiling menacingly. I couldn’t help but watching Yima trying to hide her excitement. Then the blue gaming screen popped up.
Notification
Lieutenant General Yima Lee’s Loyalty has been increased by 1,000
I internally smiled in triumph, “You can release it and tell me what’s on your mind.”
She laughed menacingly and I’m certain that she genuinely admired my determination. When LTG Lee finally calmed her non-existent nerves, she said with her usual smile, “I love it! I love it! I LOVE IT! You are the greatest, General! If this word goes out, I’m sure our brothers and sisters will greatly agree!”
I nodded, hoping all of them will agree, “Tell them now.”
She immediately summoned her memo from her spatial earring and typed something in there. A few moments later, the blue gaming screen gave me positive news. All of their loyalty increased just like LTG Lee. If humans or other intelligent races witness this impossible event, they will die in jealousy.
When I’m satisfied with these results, I looked at her in satisfaction but I’m not done with her, “Now, what will be your idea to help me in my current problem? You can start here and show me what you got.”
LTG Lee confidently summoned her dressmaking machine, tools, and fabrics. Then she began to get my body measurements before doing her job. Making a black and white dress took her 30 minutes. Next, she summoned her shoemaking tools and materials to create a new pair of black shoes as it took her 25 minutes. After that, she summoned her jewelry making tools and materials to create the accessories which took her 17 minutes. The last thing she did is the purple magic circles surrounded my costume.
That process is used to install the corrupted crystals and enchant my costume.
“It’s all done.” LTG Lee panted as she wiped her nonexistent sweat from her forehead and continued, “This is the Shadow Version 1.0 of Maria Clara Dress. The origin behind this inspiration is so primitive but it’s still very charming.”
I raised my hand and the purple smoke materialized around my costume. Then I mentally uttered the spell:
˹Charisma Permanent Enhancement˼.
I learned that spell by accident when I tried to permanently enhance my weapons’ stats. Well, since I’m done the enhancement in just a moment, once I wear my costume my CHAR stat will increase 3 times. Suddenly, the blue gaming screen popped up and I feel nervous by just simply reading the notification.
Notification
The human baby’s sleeping hours have been reduced.
Remaining Time: 10 minutes
The End of Chapter 3
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