As Aki twisted his body so his heel could hit the spear on it's bottom with a 360° spin behind it for extra measure, the leviatan of a octopus below him moved just a tiny bit, the maximun it could with several harpoons skewering it to the ocean floor, and dodged the fatal hit by a hair's lenght. Unfortunetly for it, Aki still grinned and started spinning faster, reaching the floor with much the same pose, but this time he hit the sand, sending a huge cloud inside of the octopus. There was no special effect attached to it, but it was still two tones of sand in it's mouth/breathing hole.
Cutting open the bulbuos head while going up again, Aki didn't even receive one spell in his way and finally killed the thing.
Smiling through the disgusting vicerra that left the body, he finished collecting the expensive items holding the thing down and sumoned the highly packed floating orb with a green light before releasing it.
It had been a month and Aki had robbed the gods of several divine sparks, but he'd also started to use his 'divine body' to help with the maintance of space-time of his territory, though he was still inexpirienced in such activities.
And now, he'd finnaly soloed his tenth fifth ranker!
Who cares if it was a waste of XP? Hell will always be overpopulated and there will always be creepier stuff to kill in the ocean and planet's core, nevermind in actual space!
Expecting something like last time to happen, Aki had long decided to isolate himself to evolve, and truth be told, there were few options that had actually anything interesting in their descriptions and requirements, so the selection of the most compatible class and race were done quite quickly.
*****
From the ships on the sea, from the shores, the heavens and whatever the fuck you want to call the place that eye thingy is observing the world from, sets of eyes all turned to the storm in the middle of the ocean.
Air currents changed from the waves of energy released, and so did the local currents, a bit of the passing wildlife and the tectonic plates, which caused several natural dissasters of at least low level around the whole continent and part of the ocean, plus several fish became brain dead, which yes makes a diference when in a magical world.
All hero, champion and mercenary sellsword and spell determined that yes, that was very likely to be because of the guy they were tasked with taking down. Be it from gut feeling, logic, association or divine message, it didn't take long for a whole half of the continent to know that Aki had just had a major breakthough.
Really, he did. Severeal skills reaching level 10 and some evolving, including the status multiplying ones and the new multipliers, body and spirit refining... I'd show his stats again, but it's been such little time since i last did...
This 'realm ascencion', however, attracted quite a bit of attention from the not so friendly and well behaving gods.
Aki knew it was only a matter of time really, so he wasn't scarred at all when he opened his eyes to see a colosal monster with several glowing sky blue eyes all over it's face and a bit more over it's extension, rings of barbed and pointed tentacles over it's kilometer long extention, and more importantly, a bloody and teeth filled mandible with several rows of specialized protusions prepared to pull, tear, smash and triturate him standing mere meters away.
{ThANKs foR THA mEEL} He mentally ecoed while showing disgusting grin, before shooting head first into the mouth trying to suck him in and breaking a couple of teeth away before sending waves after waves of the idea of pain over it's body and passing a destructive and fast burning arcane current of electricity, which made the long asleep 'god' scream in utter agony while jerking it's ginormus body all over before trying to close it's mouth and failing to find any kind of purchase.
There was only a small prick and lack of pressure that told it there were no more teeth in the area around it's prey.
It screamed, jerked with herculean force and divine speed, spat all kinds fluids and debris, tried to attack the being's soul with it's aura for hours non-stop, nothing worked, so it was foced to use a tactic it hadn't used in millenia. It run away while leaving the huge carcass behind. It was but a tiny white snake, barely visible in the imensity of the ocean, and though it was clearly a powerfull being still, there was none of the gigantic explendor and titanic force behind it's power now.
Translating for those less well versed in bullshit, it's status had lost a ton of multipliers it would need to spend at least a century to even begin getting back.
Now, i think everyone knows that Aki caught it, no surprise there, but really, it was half because he expected something this powerfull to try and run away, and half because it was still manipulating the huge carcass through 'energy work', so as a skilled mage, Aki could perfectly see the a bulk of mana and soul leaving, which imedialty led him to the conclusion that it was either a back up, an attack, or an escape attempt.
If even a sea cucumber could think of such tactic, there's no reason something so old wouldn't either, and it was about to die, so that meant it would probably have used a life saving attack a couple hours ago already, leaving only options that would make him chase the little snake.
Quickly chewing off it's head for good measure, Aki felt extreme bliss as the meat and energy flooded his gums and soul. It wasn't orgasmicly good, but it was certainly the best fucking food he'd ever had.
Anything with great amount of mana in their body tends to be delicious to those with the palate to actually taste it, no matter how disgusting it may look, but anything with a spark of divinity, would be infinitly better, causing dependancie and lots of extra things, but most important of all...
[Congratulations! You have consumed the meat of a mighty beast with a spark of divinity! +103 to VIT! +51 to STR!
Congratulations! You have absorbed a godhead fragment! +100 WIS!
Congratulations! Biomass processing is now level 10!]
"UUUGGGUUUUU!!!!" Said the teen werewolf while throwing his arms to the 'sky' and proceding to gulp down the rest of the snake in his hand. Some more attributes were added sporadicly while he chewed a lot of meat at once. Looking around, there wasn't anything that was going to try to eat his prize, but then again, he wasn't big enough to consume the whole damn thing before something came and went trying to claim a bite, and he definitly wasn't going to share something this good.
Aki wasn't given a system sponsored item box though, the size of the things he stored mattered, so he'd need to cut this into pieces that could fit inside his storage items, of which he had plenty that were empty exactly for sitiuations like this, but even those would still not amount to a space big enough if he wanted to keep the whole thing.
There was only one thing to do then. He'd remove any remaining fecal and decomposing matter before using small and contained blackholes to turn the whole thing into several small meatballs and eat it with time.
He knew his jaw was going to hurt more than ever because of this, but that was something he was perfectly willing to sacrifice for all the stats eating this thing would give him.
*****
Several failed suffocations by meatballs later.
"1K of stats! Bitch, that's worth so much more with all my multipliers!" Aki comemorated while raising a fuss for no one but the gods, who could only helplessly read his lips as he floated over the ocean and showed his outmost glee in a way that an earthling would think his team had just won the super ball or that his wife had just given birth.
A bit of brazilian party affinity later, Aki was going back home after two days of uninterupted hunting.
"Congratulations on your elevation little wolf, what will you..."
"I don't care which goddess you are, but i litterally just want to go back home and hug the hell out of my wife and kids, so could you schedule the damn monologue and threat for when i'm carring just that bit more? Thank you." Aki said, completly ignoring the resonating voice in his head and the trio of beauties that appearead in front of him, sarcasm and disgust obvious in his voice as he kept to his flight route and it quickly became obvious the people in front of him were merely a illusion of his self councious, created through the will of the gods.
"YOU WILL!!!" The blonde hunk with muscles for days boomed and tried to preasure his 'soul realm', but Aki was able to completly ignore his attack and keep flying without even showing a hint that he'd already disconnected the guy from the 'call'.
"I've no clue who is going to do it, but i sure don't envy the person telling mister perfect that we can't hear him anymore." He commented with a smirk as he reached three forths of the way back to his kingdom and it's anti-god barrier.
"Ok, we will skip the normal proceduress since you are obviously neither an idiot nor someone afraid of the gods." Said one of the remaining woman with a sound of defeat.
"And someone who wanted to do psicology for a living, so while i don't dislike flattery and thought guiding, i can perfectly detect it." He comented, as if that was what the goddess expected him to say in the first place. "So instead of trying to be the assholes i believe you to be, you will calmly discuss with me what we both consider as..." He suddenly stopped talking and positively polarized the air arround himself, making it so the tempest forming around him didn't hit him at all. "The best for this world and it's development." He finished before beggining to control the polarization to coincide with what the eletrical discharge around him, a fenomenom obviously caused either by a random weather mage or the nordic god from before.
Considering the frequency and amount of changes the charges had, it was obvious they were aiming for him and failing misserably. It was actually a good exercize for his newly upgraded Elemental king magic too, so he didn't mind keeping the man company.
"Exactly. I apologize for my coworker's rudeness, but he has already spent a lot of divine power to cast a thunder storm to kill you and isn't actually controlling it." She replied with a soft expression and similar tone.
"Bullshit, but good quality of bullshit anyway. As long as he doesn't decend there should be no problem. Neither of us wants to cause more earthquakes or the like, so just contact me again tomorrow after i leave the barrier. If you guys just really need help or something, i wouldn't actually mind giving a hand though. Being a god has great limitations because you are affected by all that believe in you and you affect all that worship you besides being practically glued to the plane laws, so i get if you really don't like me, but just like i can't get rid of you, it won't be so easy to get rid of me, you hear? I'm not giving Elize back, by the way." He said as if it were a last moment thought while speaking to the goddess of light.
Why were there so many blondes around him anyway?
"I don't want her back." She responded with much the same smile.
"Good, because i don't want to learn how it would be to take her out of the motels and friend's houses she sleeps in when i don't enforce her to sleep in the palace. Why did you think it was a good idea to repress a sexual deviant like that again?" He questioned with an expression almost as innocent as her's.
"Because she would not turn into a proper priestess if i didn't, obviously. Also, people don't normally expect gods to be the ones that stop their followers from being complete nutjobs with some repressed inner guilt, but the other way around." She said, like she was trying to explain it to a child.
"I know, it's such an useful thing, isn't it. 'Don't blame on malice that which can be easily attributed to stupidity.' And when people say otherwise they are treated as crazy men and women." He said with an air of ponderance as if it was mighty interesting, causing the woman to minimally roll her eyes. "Anything for you bonnie?" He smilingly asked the goddess that had remained silent throughout the interaction.
"That isn't my name, but I guess it will do for now. I'm just helping with the transmission after all, no need to remember me." She calmly said while dismissing his question.
"I'd change my actual name to 'beautiful' any time or the year too, but if you say so." He shrugged and suppressed a giggle when she seemed confused with what he said. "Have a nice day honey buns." He chuckled and turned off the transmission.