Kaori pulled out her cell phone and pulled up the pictures. She found that she could will the phone to share the pictures with her computer and did that. The list was in some weird language but she found that she could read it anyway and then she recalled all of the different signs in the hallway but she could read all of them. It seemed that she had gained some kind of auto-translate function.

The next scheduled anthromorph even was supposed to happen in just over a week. Kaori was overjoyed! She prepared herself as best she could. Kaori checked through the powers section of her book and found that there were powers for hiding all presence from even other gods. The section contained several powers but Kaori didn’t want to spend the WP to procure all of the powers there.

The main thing that Kaori wanted was invisibility but she conceded that she might well need the ones to mask scent, muffle sound, and mask her aura as well. Kaori was very reluctant to spend all those WP on herself but then she reminded herself that she really needed to know how to make anthromorphs. With great reluctance, Kaori hit the purchase button.

The page containing the powers gained a second magic circle under the purchase button circle. The second one was labeled as the accept button. Kaori sighed and pressed it and it was then that she found there was a rather large boon involved. Aside from just having the powers herself, she could gift the powers she had to others. It was temporary and she couldn’t gift them to very many but she could grant boons. She would be able to do that with any power she possessed as well.

Kaori considered the old tales of gods granting their subjects powerful boons and blessings. Apparently, that really was a thing that gods could do! She would be able to grant the powers as a blessing and they would last the lifetime of a worshipper or until she stripped them of them. For her lesser deities, they would be granted the powers for a set duration based on their relative power by comparison to the one granting the power. So she could grant the powers to any of her deities but it would last the longest on the weakest and even longer on a mortal. Neat!

Kaori tried the powers out. She turned them all on and then got up from her spot and walked over to the maps that everyone else was clustering around. She heard the conversation there at the first map had absolutely nothing to do with the map. All of the deities standing around at this map were all talking about the various features of the apartment builder.

The apartment builder was VERY popular. There was nothing but praise from every deity talking about them. A couple were unsure how to use it but the others were busy teaching them everything they had learned. Some of them had gotten very creative with the options. One was talking about how neat it was to sleep on the ceiling while another was saying that ceilings were for storage spaces. One of the others was talking about the tiny house that she had made in her living room and how you could change the size of everything so it was possible to do that. Kaori had never considered using the builder to make doll houses.

Much as she was enjoying the conversation, Kaori was now curious to see what everyone else was discussing. The next table was actually on topic and talking about the monsters that they could place around and what levels the people would have to reach to get to those places and defeat those monsters. They were rather animated about their discussion as well.

The next table was discussing what they thought the new sentient species would look like. One of the new gods was saying that he couldn’t imagine because he had never even seen some of the species present in this realm before. When a young goddess questioned him about it, he admitted that his world only had humans, elves, and dwarves. One of the older deities who had been hired on began telling about all the different species that she had met before, including a few chimeras and sentient monsters. The gem in her crown was discussing a conversation she had with a dragon once and having to reprimand her for causing too much destruction.

Kaori began messing with the deities, doing things like poking them or blowing on their cheeks. None of them could spot her even when she did something that direct. She counted that as a success. It was now time to set off for another god’s domain to see if she could be spotted there.

Kaori headed for the doors and concentrated on the offices of Descartes. When she opened the door, she was looking at the same hallway from earlier. She stepped out and began perusing the names on the doors. If she moved her head quick or concentrated on seeing what was actually there as a picture instead of writing, she could spot the original scripts on the doors.

After a short bout of searching, Kaori spotted the door she was looking for. The name listed on the door was Barsus and she knew from her reading the parchment that the world was named Rinvult. Kaori wasn’t all that interested in that part but she did kind of want to know what his realm looked like.

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Kaori looked up and down the hallway but it was deserted. She steeled her nerves and opened the door. Kaori almost had to close the door because she wanted to laugh so hard. Whatever she was expecting, this wasn’t it! This was like somebody had taken the most overdramatized versions of what heaven was supposed to look like and amped them up to max and then made them even more over the top in any way they could think of.

The space Kaori stepped into was like the inside of an alabaster and white marble castle. The ceilings receded into infinity in a white haze. The floors were all white marble with gold inlays and murals. The walls had open arched windows every thirty or so feet up from the last but there was nothing but glowing white haze outside them. And to top all of this ridiculousness off, there was an ambient layer of noise that was finally recognizable as a continuous chant of the virtues of the gods. What a bunch of egotists.

Kaori wandered around for a bit with her PDI mapping the space before she saw the first person here. The space was ridiculously huge and not being used much at all. The god she found was just lounging on a couch in the middle of the hallway. He had his head back and at first, Kaori thought he was thinking but then she realized he was sound asleep.

What a laugh. Kaori walked around for ages before she finally found the right guy. This was another one of the bigoted misogynistic religions. There were apparently no women in the deities here. And every one of the guys here looked like some Russian body builder from a video-game. It was rather pathetic in her opinion but she could ignore it for the time. She just needed one thing from them.

It seemed as though the head god here was trying to deliberately spite her. Kaori realized that was impossible since none of the gods here even knew she was here but it still seemed that way. Kaori had been in this realm for almost two weeks and the imbeciles here had never even hinted that they knew she was around. However, that was a week longer than she was supposed to be here. The head god seemed completely apathetic and was in no hurry whatsoever to begin making a new batch of anthromorphs.

Kaori was just about ready to give up or pull her hair out one. Listening to the constant droning of the incessant background hype was severely grating on her nerves. She contemplated giving up more than once and she also considered kicking them all in the hairy nether regions before storming out. Somehow, she managed to hold it together and wait the head god out.

Finally, the oaf began his ritual for creating new beings. He called all of the gods together and announced his intentions to thunderous cheering. Kaori realized finally that he only kept these guys around because they were all yes-men. She had met her share of old misogynists in the workplace so she recognized the tendencies once they were displayed. The loser had probably been rejected at some point or been through a bad relationship and surrounded himself with men who would bolster his ego.

The creepy hairy musclehead began by bringing out a human woman who was in the glowing white tube of light and from the other side he brought out a wolf. He then began circling the two subject but paid special attention to the woman. The creep stood staring at the naked woman in the cylinder of light for several minutes. He was fixating on her hair and her hairy nether region. What a total creep.

Finally, after his drooling session was over, he got down to business and held his hands out in front of him. One hand was pointed at each subject, palm outwards. After a tense few minutes, a golden ball of light began to form in front of the woman and the wolf. A few moments passed as the light grew stronger and the balls of gold could be seen rotating multiple layers withing one another.

A couple minutes later, the old letch turned his hands to face one another. The golden balls of light began forming miniscule hazy golden threads that snaked slowly towards one another. The threads began to intermingle with one another and snake around each other. He then brought his hands together and the threads left the original balls altogether and formed a new ball in the center.

When the creep finally opened his hands and moved them away from one another, the golden ball spread out and began to take the shape of a person. It still had the hazy golden light properties but now it had the shape of a person. Suddenly, he clapped his hands together and the gold light disappeared and was replaced by a naked wolf anthromorph.

The woman was as still as the parent beings to either side of her and even as Kaori watched, a third cylinder of light formed around her. The god waved her aside but sent the other two back through the archways they had entered by. Then he summoned two more in their place and began the whole process over. Kaori was still mystified by the performance after he had done it two dozen times.

She began to wonder if she should have invested some of her WP into some sort of energy senses but there were hundreds and she had no idea which type he was using here. He was apparently going to keep going until he had a batch of a hundred or more before sending them down to his planet, or so she thought. An offhand comment by one of the cronies clued her in to just how creepy this group was. They were going to take turns picking from the zombie-like women until all of them were pregnant and then send them down. Kaori was revolted like never before.

On one hand, she saw the lore working in their favor. A new species shows up and they are all women gifted children of the gods. The flip side of it was just over the top disgusting! These guys were just doing whatever the hell they wanted and who could say no to them since they were the gods?

Kaori had to leave before she did something regrettable to these freaks. She wanted to vomit or be violent or both at once. Worst of all, she hadn’t learned how to make an anthromorph! Kaori was extremely upset as she opened the door to her apartment and stepped in. she felt the overwhelming urge to take a hot shower and go to sleep.