"I believe I recognize Kara Everlais name when I applied to become Sara Everalais Priest in the system. I assumed it was her sister." Maetrin said.

"The System?" Necras said crossing her legs.

Maetrin took a closer look at the banshee; she had an odd beauty to her. While she was sitting, she took out a comb and began to work on her hair. "Yes, I became a User of Jack. He has signed a contract with both Sara and Kara Everalai, allowing me to become a priest of Sara Everlai."

"Interesting." She paused and looked in thought for a moment before continuing. "It has been a long time since I saw either of them. A extremely long time."

"You said you were Kara Everlai's General?"

"I did. What you may not know, is that the both of them used to be a singular goddess. Then she was pierced with a spear of corruption, and she shattered into two. Each of them held a unique philosophy, but sustained peace until the corruption grew extremely great in them, and they began to battle."

"As far as I can tell, Sara Everlai has no taint of corruption on her."

"That is splendid. I may have fought against her armies, but I held no hatred towards her. I lost contact with her when the ultimate battle took place, when the Great One made a move and sealed us all."

"The Great One?" Maetrin asked.

"The God of Gods. All those who were corrupted or affected in the battle were sealed as far as I can tell. I barely broke the seal about three hundred years ago and escaped."

"Are you corrupted?" Maetrin asked concerned.

Necras said "Affirmative, it's a sliver that's festering within me. I have managed to halt it's spread for now, but it is acutely painful."

"It is possible Jack may be able to aid you, if he was able to help the Everlai's free of the corruption?"

"Besides wanting to meet a priest of my one-time friend, I did wish to find out how they escaped corruption."

Maetrin brought up the screen and messaged Jack. "Hello Jack, I have met a general of Kara Everlai's, she wishes to know how they escaped corruption, and if you could help her?"

Jack was silent for a moment, before saying "The Everlai's escaped corruption by the aid of Elizabeth Writhing who cut off the non-corrupted parts of their souls and channeled them through me. I could attempt the same thing with Necras if she wished. I must warn her, though. She would lose her strength, and be changed completely."

Maetrin told her what Jack had said. She thought for a long time before saying "So Elizabeth is still around? That is surprising."

"You recognize her?"

"Yeah, she was one of Sara Everlai's top generals. The Everlasting Queen of Vampires."

"Why is it surprising, when you still exist?"

"Because Elizabeth disappeared one day into the void. It's one of the reasons the battles started to go in Kara's favor. I think I will take this Jack's offer. While I am keeping the corruption in check, it has been taking a toll on me far too long."

"Alright. Jack please direct me on what to do." Maetrin heard a whisper from his goddess to place his hand upon her. "I will need to touch you to assist you."

"Very well, where do you need to handle me?"

"Your back will do." Maetrin walked around her and laid his hands on the cold to the touch banshee. Concentrating Maetrin could feel a mixture of power flow down through his hands, one felt like his goddess, and the other was from Jack. When they touched Necras, she shuddered in agony, and let out a scream that made Maetrin's ear's hurt.

He could feel the power start to surge, and something hideous started to squirm inside of Necras, and his hands started to glow brighter and brighter. Maetrin had to look away from the bluish gold light, Necras kept up the screaming as Maetrin felt something start to separate from her. Then there was an immense pulse of light, that blinded Maetrin for a second.

Maetrin was blasted away from Necras from the shear amount of energy that flowed through him at that moment. He crashed into the softly padded wall and landed hard on the ground. Groaning, he blinked several times to clear his eyes and looked around.

On one side was a bundle, where he could see Necras silver hair. On the other side was a horrific monstrosity. It had red glowing eyes, and was staring at Maetrin hungrily. It looked like a wicked old hag, and began to hobble towards him, cackling madly.

Fearing for his life, Maetrin prayed to his goddess and felt a divine energy flow through his hands and pulse of energy slammed into the monstrosity and it groaned in pain and turned around and fled out the door. Maetrin heard a crashing window soon after indicating it had fled the premises.

Catching his breath, he found he had gained a skill called Turn Undead. Checking it, he found he could push and frighten the undead and cause them damage. Though he really only managed to hurt that thing with the aid of his goddess, his Turn Undead would not nearly be as strong. Standing up he went to check on Necras.

To his surprise he found Necras had shrunk, and now appeared like a little girl. She looked a bit out of it, before saying "Thank you for you help. The corruption is gone."

"Well don't thank me just yet. Your corruption ran out the door. I'm not sure where it went, so it might come back for you."

Necras stood and only reached mid thigh of Maetrin. "Let it come. I will show it what a legend in battle can do! Now that I'm free of corruption, I can get in contact with Kara again."

"Er of course." Maetrin examined her, and Necras looked still strong, according to the screen.

Necras went to the wall and pulled open a panel and retrieved a piece of paper. "Here, take this to my clerk below. He will give you the select products."

"Much obliged Necras. What are you going to do now?"

"I felt Jack's power when it entered me. He's not qualified to contract me just yet, so I can't speak with Kara like that. I plan to seek out one of her ancient temples and try to get in contact with her like that." Necras said pulling open another panel and getting a pack that was two sizes to big for her.

"Okay. I will pray for your success." Maetrin said. "I'm certain my goddess would like to see you succeed."

"Thank you. I'll also go and find Elizabeth. If she's up and about, then I think I know where she will go." Necras struggled to put on the pack, and waddled out the door followed by Maetrin. They headed downstairs, where she had some words with the stunned clerk and then waved goodbye as she stepped outside.

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Maetrin handed the paper he received to the Clerk who went and got a big box of supplies for him. Ever since he had signed up with Jack, he found his life had become a bit more interesting of late.

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Feeling a bit exhausted after helping Maetrin, Jack decided to head up to check on his true body. It had been a while since he did so, when he returned to his body, he felt a weird sensation as he got used to being in his ball form again. While he was focusing on controlling his true body, he heard several voices, and some making jokes.

Looking around he found himself floating in a room above a bed. Exiting the room, he found he was in a small cottage, through the windows he could see his white void space. Exiting the building, he found Kara Everlai chatting with Eramis and two other goddesses. They were sitting around a table, that had several open bottles on it.

Kara spotted him and said "Hey look who's up and about? Tired of playing down on the world?"

"I was busy, in fact your sister and I just helped one of your generals."

"Ah I did feel she did use a bit of power. Which general was it?"

"Necras. She wants to contact you, so be aware."

"Oh I like her. I'm glad she's still around. I'm surprised my sister helped her. She can be quite the bitch about these things. Holding a grudge is not uncommon for her."

Jack floated to the table and introduced himself to the two goddesses he did not recognize "Hello, I'm Jack a System."

Eramis finished drinking out of a bottle, and burped saying "These two are my close friends, Brink and Cagey. This is the-" She paused as if reconsidering her words "System who contracted with my brother."

"Oh what a cute little ball. I wouldn't mind playing with it for a while." Brink smiled and leaned towards Jack who swiftly backed away. Brink was wearing heavy eyeliner, with pink hair tied in a set of pigtails. She was wearing a strange outfit, with a vest that emphasized her chest and a short plaid skirt.

"Sorry, I'm not in the mood to be touched at the moment." Jack said.

Brink pouted and said "I'll play with you later. I'm Brink Goddess of Travel and Wind. I'm genuinely surprised your here without a scratch. Eramis is notorious for how protective she is of her brother."

"Eramis and I have come to an understanding regarding her brother. Didn't we Eramis?" Jack looked at Eramis.

Eramis looked elsewhere with a faint red tinge to her cheeks "Yeah, my brother was getting lost too often. Jack helps with that."

"Hello, I'm Cagey, Goddess of Farming. Your place is pretty impressive. We spent awhile sprucing it up. What do you think of it?" Cagey said. She was a black haired woman, wearing a set of glasses that took up her face. Her lips were painted green, and she was wearing a pair of shorts and a short shirt, that showed off her underboob.

Looking around, Jack had to admit the place did look a lot more lively. Exercising his power, he could tell the white void had even increased in size a bit. There was now a small pond near the table, with one side that looked like it was closed off. "It looks stunning. What is that closed off section?"

"We decided since were going to make a pond, we should make a hot spring. If were going to make a vacation spot, we might as well go all out."

"Vacation spot? This is my home." Jack said frowning.

"Did I say Vacation spot. I meant hangout spot for us, your new close friends." Cagey said blankly.

"Much obliged."

Eramis grunted and said "We only did it, because I wanted to give Kara and Sara a welcome gift for entering the court."

"So the court is allowing them in?"

"Not yet officially. They still need to sign the contract all gods need to before entering. We still need to also set a date for you to meet the court."

Brink selected a new bottle and popped it open and replied "Thank's Jack for transporting all this food up. Can't tell you what a pain it is to acquire things from the mortal world up here."

"Why is that? Why don't you just create an avatar?"

Brink said "Ugh I don't know how you and Eramis can stand being in those bodies. Not to mention the pain of hauling things up from the mortal world, we are only allowed according to the contract to transfer a specified amount up each decade. If we want more, we have to persuade our followers to offer it to us. Which is not a problem if your a food god like Cagey here, but you know what they offer me? Windchimes!"

Deciding it was best to change the subject so not to annoy the goddess more. Jack said "Speaking of the mortal world, one of my Users has discovered an issue relating to Corruption in the city of Taras. After the expedition I will be embarking on, I will have him check more into it."

Eramis perked up and said "what did they find?"

"A Potion of Corruption. Some group appears to be producing them at a large rate. They in addition offered my User some drugs that make me suspect they are being controlled by an entity from the vast void."

"Great Corruption Potions." Cagey said frowning and said "How much do you know about them Jack? I know your fairly new. Corruption potions are or were relatively rare these days."

"Not much to be honest."

"I only know a little bit myself. About two hundred years ago a large cache of them were found on one of the southern continents. They began to take them, and several cities were lost in the chaos that followed. The court had a nightmare getting it under control." Cagey said.

Eramis said, "I had to burn the ground several feet deep to forcibly prevent anything to grow again. It's now a large desert. Unfortunately odd things still appear periodically. It's currently a forbidden zone."

"How are they produced?"

"Three things are needed, first is the contaminated blood or other bodily liquid of a corrupted being. The stronger the being the more powerful the potion, with the corrupted blood of a god being the strongest. Two is an essence of something to be mixed in, it can be anything from another magic potion to a rock picked off the side of a street. It is completely random either way, no two same essences will ever produce the same result." Cagey said.

"What is the last ingredient?" Jack asked.

Eramis looked solemnly at Jack and said gravely "A living sacrifice."