Chapter 1.2 A Week later

A week has passed since the start of the transition phase. I have already accepted my new situation. It was pretty strange for the first few days but slowly I am getting accustomed to my new powers and restrictions.

But let’s go in order, when a week ago I started seeing a strange thing around people I was surprised at first, but the Athena (I named the core, although she told me to not call her that to not offend a certain Goddess) explained to me that that’s their aura.

This aura thing changes colour with the actions of people, most of the people have a neutral colourless aura.

The sinners have an hellish red aura, the shade changes with the weight of their sins. People that have done really atrocious deeds have a blood red aura.

On the other hand Saints have a Holy golden aura, the same as that  for a sinner the shade changes with the degree of their holiness.  

There are way fewer Saints that sinners. Because a Sin is enough to change a Saint in to a sinner while from a sinner to become neutral they need forgiveness of a Neutral or of an Heaven God.

Gods are a bit like that to, there are Neutral Gods, but there are also Hell Gods and Heaven Gods.  Nothing really changes between the three alignments when we speak about their powers, aside from one thing. While a neutral God can take any kind of person as an apostle, Hell God can only take a Sinner, and an Heaven God only a Saint.

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Anyway, in Aria Village there aren’t any Saints, only four sinners while the rest are neutral people.

I discovered another shocking thing, I am unable to leave my territory!!! Well technically I can but I lose 100 DP for every hour I spend outside, basically I would die after a few hours. I thought that If my hourly income of DP reaches a hundred, I could travel outside for an indefinite number of hours but apparently I can’t even absorb DP while outside.

Athena told me that there are two solutions: the first is to travel through the land of friendly Gods, but aside from the fact that there are only godless land, around me, I don’t even know any other God; The second solution is even more absurd, apparently if I become a Full God I won’t lose DP any more, but Full God? Really? A being three whole ranks higher than me.(Transition Phase).

But I have a bigger problem: people keep leaving this Village, and  if this keeps up, my only source DP will exhaust itself. So  I had to change my objective, instead of being in search of  a good place to rest and live lazily where no one knows me, my first priority has become to make Aria Village become a flourishing village, assuring me a stable source of DP that won’t simply disappear in one or two years.

So what have been doing this past week? It’s simple, Athena told me that that with my new powers I can make the dungeon work again. That’s pretty good because reopening of the dungeon seems to be the perfect solution.

So for the first three days I used all my DP to claim as mine a narrow strip of land that goes in a straight line to the Dungeon. Then I had to wait, wait, patiently wait, until just a few minutes ago I finally hit  the threshold of  10.000 DP

(You entered a Godless Area: Ruins of Aria Dungeon)

(you are in a Godless area, do you wish to become the god of this area?

Cost: 10.000 DP)