With the brief conversation over, Jack stepped back into the conference room to find everyone either celebrating their future growth or feasting on the food across the table.
"How'd it go?"
Jack looked to the side, finding Maura with a smile. "It went well. But we'll need to be on edge for now. Halmut will respond, probably sooner than later. For now…
"Everyone! I have one last thing to say!"
"You didn't forget after all!" Hadurt howled, hurrying to Jack without fail. "I'm ready when you are!"
"We still need to kill a god for you, but…" Jack still had Halmut's imminent response in mind, so he laughed, "that shouldn't take long. We'll have you enter godhood in no time. As for everyone else here, we need to redo our pacts so that I'm not stealing all of your EXP."
One by one, the many gods and others present stepped up to Jack and formed a line.
