Cheking on his chosen, Hades saw him bathing Angela, one of his smaller dogs. Looking a bit deeper, he saw he had bought three bad quality affinity stones for the other three basic elelements and derived yet another composite affinity, this one directly at the bad tier.
With the same light smile he just turned back time a bit and noticed he'd literraly molded part of his eternal gold walls into needles, the material grew back, he shoved the needless in his arms and started eletrocuting then, generating a lot of heat and pain, but also turning it easier to separate all the energies in the ridiculously painful experience by simply turning all but the metal ki into his own energy, continuing the process until he could actually understand more of the metal and properly gain the affinity.
"This is fine." He told himself. And went back to paging through the dozens of life stories at once. Time was never at his side when it came to work. He should not care about what his champion would do while in his realm because there was no way he could do anything that would be too bad.
He kept that in mind until some time later Kilberus, an adorable blue eyed and attention seeking dobberman, came to his office and started coffing like it was a cat.
"Did you eat another damed you couldn't swallow boy? It's okay, let me..." *Bleaugh.* The dog oppened it's mouth at a perfect one eighty, revealing it's triple maw filled with canines and hook like teeth around it's long and barb filled tongue, plus a human head. Aki's. "Didn't i specifically tell you not to actually eat him?" The god asked with exasperation before his dog begun retching more, expanding his throath to a size completly unproportional to the rest of his body and delivering a saliva heavy human to the carpet before looking with disgust at the slepping man and stealing away the confortable office chair while becoming smaller so he could perfectly circle on it's cushion and relax. It understood his master was going to have a headache, but it wasn't his fault.
Snapping a quick construct, Aki was quickly awoken. Yawning, he sat up, noticed his sloberred state and started to try and manipulate the liquid into a floating ball, taking two or so minutes to completly do it while his patron just blankly stared at him.
"Any magical clock indicating how long i was in there?" He asked, completly unfased by the situation.
"Three minutes. Why?" The man dead paned.
"Because it is a hell beast that can freely change shape and mass, so either way it should have some relation to law of space. I simply walked in while it was waging it's tongue after some neck scritches." He pointed out, making the not much older looking man facepalm. "By the way, Angela had some strange lines nead her shoulders, are those the extra heads or some kind of worms?" And this made the man look at him blankly before teleporting the ball of golden hair and energy to him, which he began to examine imediatly.
A bit of ansiety later, he sighed in relief.
"Just her heads growing back. She was play bitting a lot recently. You didn't happen to find someone you like and not tell daddy, right?" He playfully said with a smile.
What next happened can only be expressed as a fluff fest of slobber, scritches and ruined paperwork.
*****
Name: Aki
Age: 20
Cultivation: Humam-6 (7)
HP: 810/810
EP: 870/870
Attribute:
STR: 82
VIT: 81
INT: 82
WIS: 87
DEX: 78
AGI: 75
END: 86
LUCK: 26
Fire Lv 2:
Fire manipulation II: Heat and flame are easier to understand and manipulate to you.
Blazing metabolism I: Your metabolism works 12.5% faster.
Earth Lv 2:
Stone manipulation II: Earth and related matter are easier to understand and manipulate to you.
Colossus skin I: Your skin becomes 12,5% sturdier.
Water Lv 2:
Water manipulation II: Water and other liquids are easier to understand and manipulate to you.
Flowing scales I: Your reaction speed is 12.5% faster.
Wind Lv 2:
Aero manipulation II: Wind and air are easier to understand and manipulate to you.
Breeze feathers I: Your flexibility is 12.5% better.
Metal Lv 2:
Sturdy II: You are 25% more resilient.
Temperated body I: Your body's base resistances are increased.
Space Lv 3:
Spacial awareness III: You have a better understanding of space near you.
Center II: The space near you becomes naturally infused with your essence.
Anomaly I: A part of any attacks directed at you is neutralized.
Looking at his new affinities and confirming that indeed, any of the non percentage values mentioned were incredibly small, Aki decided he'd not develop any more new affinities for a while unless there was some special opportunity.
Having been returned to Earth, he decided to buy an enchanting art and start by trying to carve something on his blood armament, since all of then shared his regeneration like a bar of overhealth he could use to attack.
That'd also be great for practice of his DEX and AGI too, since those were the only lagging attributes and he was bursting yet again, with his energy/mental stats having been mostly ignored in this visit to hell, whenever not dealing with shit. Otherwise, he'd be forced to breakthrough only once at a time and still have his energy almost bursting.
Not the best explanation, but it can be simplified by saying that he simply needs to start training his control more so he can have an easier time cultivating.
*****
Several hours of carefull crafting and some explosions inside of a soundproof room.
"Danm am i famished." Said the now rank 8 Aki after getting up for lunch. His punishment quest was not discounted from his main quest timer nor had a second passed on earth. There was a limit of about three days he could spend there in his current realm, but otherwise it was just more time for free. Though he'd gotten unsumonned in less than half a day since there were no more tasks his patron could use as an excuse for keeping him there.
It was quite easy to notice, and it was easily confirmed after he'd correctly guessed it, but aparently every chosen got diferent benefits depending on their patron's aspects.
He'd gotten a system for obvious reasons and quests were a widespread thing, but there were only other two or so people using the shop and only five in total had the same daily quest oportunity, though somewhat diferent for each one. It'd taken some time, but aparently no one had made a rule that the gods couldn't tell their chosen they were right about other's powers. Just that they could not give hints on that.
"So to summarize, Ares can grant time pauses for when his champion is fighting and send their chosen to 'ghost sparring sessions through the universe until they die once', Hella gives bonus time in her assasination quests, Aphrodite can rewards anything she deems good enough for seducing and beauty achievements, Hephestus has a room where there are crafting chalenges where time is non-existent and then there's me, who can be thrown in hell."
"Pretty much." His god nodded.
Aki could fell how much of a pain in the ass it was going to be to deal with most of those people if they had the correct attitude when abusing their boons. He wasn't going to complain about his own advantage though. Few people could hope to understand how incredible this oportunity was for a cultivator.
Back to lunch, he had a constipated looking Melissa staring holes at him whenever she thought he wasn't looking, which he didn't need to do anymore if he just wanted to know that people were looking at him.
The problem was cultivation related of course, she'd been fairly surprised by him writing her the fire technique he knew, but he'd quite expected her to start to doubt if he was some kind of reincanator or simply lying about his situation much more than she expected.
To her, he'd just non-chalantly given her a script that could have allowed her to reach spirit rank uninpeeded and in a absolutly ridiculous speed. Aki himself knew that he'd simply not written the instructions on how to become a god level being, nevermind him having more powerfull cultivation technics. Having looked at all the tecniques the girls working there used, he'd promissed to write a prescription to cure their dissabilities, coming from several bad stories generally coming from their low talent and traumas, and upgrade their techniques so they could reach the peak of mortal realm too, though with more dificulty exactly because of the before mentioned conditions.
That got him pure silence at the time, so he'd pinched her nipples and had a laugh before explaining that he was just one person, he'd need help if he wanted power. It was something fairly easy to forget, but he was both a gentle young man and greedy conspirator that hardly carred for who was in his path. To the people at brothel at least.
That one girl couldn't think of him as anything but a monster after all, so she doesn't count.
"By the way, i found out i'm actually much better at enchanting, so do tell me if you want any neutral enchantments. I'll be working on creating better explosives for myself in the mean time, but it should be plenty useful to inscribe a succubu formation at the door of the establishment, plenty of sanitazing effects. Not like i'm capable of doing it now, but the day after tomorrow should be enough for me to have enough mastery for it." He informed said establishment owner.
"A succubu formation? Those are super expensive, so i was thinking of getting someone to do it, but if you want to do it for free..."
"Sure, just buy me the materials and i should suceed first try, and if not than second. My energy control is surprisingly good." He offered, completly against letting one of his debtors get pregnant or poisoned in a strange way because they were being stupid. Even if they could abort the non-formed thing imediatly, discussing the morals and ethics of the act with someone emotional was not in his list of things to do in the next century or whenever he got a more gentle sub-personality to take the helm from him.
Having solved most pressing concerns, what Aki needed now was time and oportunities. That roughly translated to taking over the city's underground and cultivator comunity.
After all, he'd need people to farm resources for him, nevermind the amount of talents he'd be able to obtain with his preparations for the apocalipse, which would practically fuck over all countries on the world even with cultivators being very much real and bound to be exposed said fenomenom happens.
To begin the fun part of said preparations though, he'd need to reach the pawn stage, form his Qi connection and unlock his first spell seed, because fuck if he wasn't going to learn spells when he had such a pletora of affinities.
He even already decide what said first spell would be!