Chapter 1.3 The plan, step one

(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)

I now have 10.000 DP, if I were an actual Lesser God I wouldn’t  claim the dungeon since having 0 DP would kill me, but I am in the transition phase so no problem!

I have however decided that after the end of this phase, given the fact that for the conscience of  a Lesser God to survive inside the core,  he needs at least 1 DP a year, or 10 DP if he  keeps his body, I’ll always have at least 1.000 spare DP as a reserve.

(congratulation!!! You claimed Ruins of Aria Dungeon)

(before making the dungeon operative you need to create a Dungeon Core)

(Do you wish to create a Dungeon Core?

5000 DP)

Well I did know that once claimed I would have to wait, but Athena said to claim it as soon as possible, to stop its decay.  First step, of my plan to economic (DP) independence cleared!

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Almost all the new powers that I have acquired require the use of Deity Power, but now that I am forced to save them for my plan I can’t even afford to experiment a little with them. Luckily among the few of them that don’t need any DP to work some are perfect to not bore myself to death while I wait for the accumulation of DP.

For the first two days of the last week I went around the village, following the villagers in their daily life. But I had to stop because I started to notice that they stared at me in strange ways. However it seems that as long as I wish it, I can see every place inside my territory as if I was there. A God is the perfect voyeur!

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Well it does feel pretty strange, but I got used to it after a bit.

I discovered that I am the ‘hot topic’ among villagers.

Viggo the Farm/Guard that I met on the first day seems to be the main source of them, but well I have to say that he doesn’t spread lies.

 “hey, did you hear the latest ? that C rank adventurer for some reason, has not left the village since two days ago.

“hey did you know? it seems that, Helix that C rank, has now become a shut in, in Martha’s inn”

Sentences of this kind  have become the norm for him. But despite that, he is an ok guy, actually the only one, aside from the inn landlady Martha and her daughter, who talks to me in a somewhat normal way. He was pretty stiff, but after, a few days we somewhat become friends.

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“Good evening, Helix anything new in the dungeon?” Viggo greeted me at the entrance of the Village

“Not really, everything is exactly like it was a week ago.”

“You are so strange, an adventurer of your rank, must have a better way to use his time, you are probably the only person that is in this decadent place by choice”  

It is not my choice!!!  I’ll die if I leave the village… I  wish that I could use that answer, it would at least ,stop all these rumours that I am a pervert that fell in love with Martha’s daughter  but unluckily I can’t, it would stop the rumours, but at the same time it would attract the thing I hate the most: attention!

“It’s not my choice, I am working for the adventurer guild” That the most logical excuse.

“ You keep saying that, but I am not an idiot, everybody in the village knows that you haven’t gone to the adventurer guild since the day you got here. You didn’t even meet the other adventurers once”

Well the only sinners in this village are part of the adventurer guild,  and with the guild master being one of them isn’t it just normal that I want to keep my distance? But I can’t say this too.

“I already told you a thousand times, I am working for the main guild… but if you prefer, just think that I fell in love with this village.”

 “Yea, I heard people saying that you fell in love, but they weren’t talking about the village…”

Again!! This is the only rumour that Viggo hasn’t spread and at the same time the only one that really bothers me. It’s true that I followed Emma, Martha’s daughter around, and that now I watch her with my powers(although they don’t know the latter part) but that was only because she is such a cute kid, and watching her playing with her friends make my heart warm.

“Come on man, I was joking no need to be angry” He tried to stop me when I started to go away without answering , but I just greeted him and left.

I am just  happy that when everything is ready, the villagers will have a much more juicy fact to gossip about.

“ I really don’t understand, you are a soon to be God, an object of worship, how could you be worshiped without having the attention of your believers?” (Athena)

But they will believe in Helios, the mighty and powerful God, not Helix the plain C rank adventurer, won’t they?

“Well  I suppose you could be right, but I am not sure that it will be that simple.”