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I quickly noticed the changes to Atalanta. Not mentioning the obvious increase in the size of her assets.
But the way she moved. It reminded that of a feline. Before that, it wasn't like that. She didn't have that grace of feline but that of a seasoned hunter. Where one walks elegantly in stealth the other one is like a predator stalking the prey.
While it's nice for her since she will be able to mix it up and adjust to this later. It also gives more sexiness because she is now properly using her tail and those hip movements…
"How does it feel like?" I asked her while walking over towards her.
She looked at her hand for a moment. Moving it for a bit. Standing on one leg then on the other.
Testing out her balance for a bit.
"Apart from feeling ridiculously more powerful…and very comfortable with myself… there is no other changes? Hmm, well there is that feeling that I am having a pull towards you?
Not in… sexual sense, more like... something like a gravitational pull?"
"Is it powerful?" I asked with a thoughtful look. This means my new much more powerful soul pulls like the sun pulls planets towards them? Is this the effect of powerful beings attracting other powerful beings thing?
"Hmm...not very noticeable. One can ignore it." She said with a thoughtful look. Her tail moved from one side to another. I did notice that it moves much more now.
"Good. Because I went through one session myself to adjust my soul." I explained to her with a shrug.
"Oh…I see...so, it's not my thing, but it's yours?" She said that while approaching me.
Moments later she was in front of me. There was a certain look in her eyes. Fascinating enough, her pupils were slightly cat-like. Not truly visible unless one is in front of her, and looking directly into her eyes from a close distance.
"Hmm… there is… some sort of gravity around you… I felt only like this in front of a God. Did you feel something like this from Goddess Artemis?" Atalanta asked me as she inspected me.
"Hmm? What I felt from her is a need to do things to her." I said with a shrug.
And yes, my sadistic tendencies magnify around her. Maybe it's because I know that she...was...is? A man-hater and I just want to do things to her.
There is that pull towards her… maybe it's that her soul is much stronger as a Deity…
"...Right… I don't want to know that… however, if you have a pull… similar to that then it's God's natural power of a soul. All-powerful beings have that. I do believe this is most noticeable towards the Heavenly Dragons Sacred Gear users. They can be not as powerful as God's but they have the pull regardless because of the Dragon souls and energies around them." Atalanta explained as she used that moment to lean on m. That moment her tail wiggled more to the sides.
It would seem she has awakened the like to cuddle… which is a good thing. As I used that moment to wrap my hands around her.
Pulling into a hug, that moment she slightly purred.
"Only one gear has that now. The other one is fixed. The energy dispersal is minimal." I said to her remembering what I did to the Boosted Gear.
"I see… well it doesn't matter. Now Master~~~ shall we test the upgrades?" Her tone quickly changed into a hungry one. She lifted her head and looked at me with quite a lustful tone.
I could only smirk at her. I squeezed her bum quite firmly, that moment she experienced the side effects of the alterations…
Her whole body twitched hard. Sweat appeared on her forehead. Followed by some spasm.
"Sad to say, sweetheart. But, you are in no position to do anything steamy. Your body just went through changes at the foundation level. While new adaptation helps alot. By alot, I mean you can walk and do things at a regular level. If we didn't do adaptation upgrades you would be spending at least a week in deep sleep adapting to the changes."
As I explained, Atalanta just experienced what is called nervous overload. Her body is going through hot and cold periods every few moments and that lasted at least twenty seconds.
And that was just from me firmly squeezing her incredible ass.
"Well, do you want to do some steamy stuff?" I asked her this time I was extra gentle with her.
"N-No… maybe...when this...is over...I will make sure… to do extra hard…" She said with haggard breathing… she looked like she just finished the whole marathon run.
"I will be waiting for that. Day however you will have two more sessions before the changes are finished.
"W-What? two more?" She asked with disbelief and annoyance.
"Indeed. Eternal youth and life is not that easy to craft into DNA. We going quite a bit against nature." I explained to her.
She simply nodded and resigned to this fate with a sigh.
"Fine, how does this work?" Atalanta asked while leaning into me.
"One week break between sessions. So by mid-October, you will be done with this."
She hummed in response. After that, there was no more talk instead she just behaved like a cat…
My actions to her borderline purring was simply stroking her back.
~~~~~~Later~~~~~~
When Latia returned to the Base she did her rituals, like getting some food, checking out on the maids, catching up with whatever her Master is doing.
Thankfully or not, the current project he is working on is quite tame. Tuning up the car is quite tame compared to what is to come.
This is what is worrying for her. Because he is waiting... it means he is bored. Or should be, turns out he is not bored out of his mind and is finding things to do.
The docks construction, the space station's core are big things… especially the space station and the prelude to the point where Marcus will point the barrel of the gun to the world…
Well, it's some time away, and there is a chance to pick sides…
Her clan and its allies are with Marcus, from the sheer curiosity to lifting their boredom, they will be on… human side for this. She has no idea what to think about this. Well, she doubts there will be another civil war. The devil council simply don't want to do anything with him.
So, they don't care and Marcus doesn't care… so, they simply can co-exist.
From what she knows Fallen Angels most likely will come to him with friendly terms…
This will cause a chain reaction which will most likely lead to a peace treaty.
The blonde devil massaged her forehead. This is so weird and is so baffling. All she can do is just be there and make sure she can mitigate if some sort of fallout happens.
Honestly, the only fallout she can see is something coming from the Bael Clan for mass usage of P.O.D… but, there is no proof that it's Bael P.O.D. in the first place.
No demonic energy is used to create the black destructive force. Marcus usage in this thing reached the point that it's more of his thing than the Bael clan itself!
With another sigh, he just decided not to think about this. It's not her place. There is Satan Leviathan for this. She should just do her thing and be done with it.
However… one thing is on her mind. With her current position, she can use it to get the title of Astaroth Heiress. That waste of devil blood has been treading on thin ice with his constant abduction of female saints from churches.
How has no one connected the dots that he is the one who is messing with the Church? Which is the Heaven faction in turn? If any exorcist or priest would notice a devil skulking around it could cause some deep mess with the peace talks…
This is quite a good opportunity for her to rise in ranks within her clan.
She has the perfect means to do so. S.P.B.A. can be deployed with a moment of notice. Even better so she has some proof that he was abducting those females from the Churches. The only thing that is needed is visual proof and a witness who can talk.
In the end, Latia decided to wait for the right moment and then ask for some help from Marcus, before that she can only wait and continue to rack up her brownie points with him.
When she arrived at his bedroom she was of course being smart with this. If there is no girls there she will do her girlfriend duty and sleep here. If it's something steamy going on… well, it depends on the situation…
So, she did not expect to see Marcus just cuddling with the lion girl in bed. There was no steamy session going on. Instead, the huntress was just using his body as a heat source hugging him, while deeply in sleep. While the teen inventor was napping too.
As the moment Latia entered the room he opened his eyes and looked at her.
Moments later she heard his voice in her head. Assuming he is using his powers to talk to her directly as he didn't want to wake up the girl next to him.
'Come. My other side is empty.' He said to her with quite a lazy tone.
The blonde beauty nodded at him and went over to the empty side and sneaked under the blankets to cuddle with him.
"...Isn't it just me... but Atalanta is...stronger?" Latia whispered to Marcus as she sensed an obvious increase in her power.
'Indeed. And you can talk in your head. I will hear it.' He answered back to her via his telepathy.
'Oh...okay… can you hear me?' She said that with an uncertain tone.
'Yes. And Atalanta went through genetic alteration. I fixed her lion and human part and made her seamless being as before that it was half baked work. She was changed through god's magic. It was not properly done. You could say… it's like a wooden house extension done to a brick house. It works but it's not as good. Now however it's properly fixed.'
Latia nodded to his explanation. So, he has used the Bio-chambers… This is good. Maybe she can push him to start the medical side of his company sooner? That's of course all the extra hype settles down… or... if it even can settle down as the technology disparity will start.
It might even lead it to be the forefront of the news...daily.
So, this… going… interesting time for the human race.
'I see… and her power… is from?'
'I gave her the basic 'perfect' human upgrades, same ones Quinella has.' He explained to her quite casually. The blonde beauty could only dumbly nodded at him.
This was so unreal she decided to just sleep. Since when basic strength is considered Ultimate Class? Even devils are not that crazy…
While some can be born with absurd potential like the Crimson Satan.
But, even he needed to train for at least 30 to 40 years! The man fought in the war when he was 60!
But now? One only goes through a chemical session and just like that… that person becomes a Ultimate-class being…
Just thinking about this makes her want to forget… the beauty just snuggled into Marcus and decided to sleep.
The teen inventor just wrapped his hand around her and pulled her closer to him.
Before long she was already sleeping.
~~~~~~Same Night, North of The Base~~~~~~
Purple energy manifested in the makeshift camp of S.P.B.A. the infantry gathered quickly to greet their leader.
Sure enough, this energy formed into Marcus. Their leader's psionic avatar was here.
"Sir! We did not expect your arrival here." The leader of the squad said with a salute.
"At ease. Athena has found my town. Which is not surprising and quite expected. I did however want her to play more of the game." the Psionic avatar said with crossed arms.
"Do you want us to do something to make her journey longer?" The Infantry squad leader asked.
"Not really. I want to her tomorrow regardless. However, there is a way to test her powers either way." Marcus said with a thoughtful look.
The S.P.B.A. infantrymen looked at each other. They already had the idea. They are the most versatile with the inventor's technomancy after all.
"Sir, are you sure? The field version of Realitus is in alpha stages. There is a lot of things that needs to be tested… and our protocol doesn't quite allow of the use of such experimental technomancy." The leader of the squad said with quite an unsure tone. He was fighting between following his protocol or following his creators wishes…
While Marcus could only shake his head internally, he can feel Quinella's influence seeping from them. The only reason she doesnt allow technomancy of alpha stages to be used like that is because there is a chance it can fail and I will embarrass myself…
The chances of them exploding is quite non-existent nowadays, as the energy source is disabled first before it can reach a critical point. A lesson the teen inventor learned and doesn't want to repeat.
"Pretty sure we can classify this as a field experiment. It will be logged as a field experiment. So your protocol allows this." He said with a casual shrug.
"Very well! As you wish sir! What about the Greek Goddess? What will happen if it fails?" They asked for clarification on Athena's part in this. After all, she is the variable in this.
"I will take care of her. She is here for me after all. So, begin with the test, I will go to meet her." He motioned for them to move out. And soon enough they all started to move and the preparations were on the way.
~~~
"Hmm? Something strange is going on…" Athena said as she looked around. Her sixth sense has picked something up. The Goddess was in deep thought when she realised that the teen inventor most likely does have means of perpetual energy.
The more she thought about it the more it made sense to her.
However, her thinking time was interrupted when out of nowhere it started snowing… in rainbow-like colours…
It was surreal… before long her surroundings morphed… and she was standing in a white plane of sorts…
Then...she heard a male voice behind her.
"Well met Goddess Athena."
She quickly turned around and was met face to face with a male teenager dressed in casual modern clothes and a lab coat.
He didn't look like someone who has the means to wipe a faction or a pantheon… that's where one should not judge a book by its cover.
Because apart from his clothes he looked handsome like approaching supernatural levels of it.
"You are not in person here, are you? I can't sense anything from you. Instead, you are a construct of energy of some sort." The beautiful Goddess said while fixing her glasses.
A sigh escaped from Marcus mouth. He already got seen through it!
"I should have known. Supernaturals don't need glasses but they choose to wear them anyway. I bet that yours sees energy." The teen inventors said with a thoughtful look. He did remember that he was thinking to make HUD contactless for his eyes and the girls. Now that some of them have a Psionic interface it's even easier.
"Indeed. All I see is energy from you. This means that you are not here in person. I assume you came here to test me yourself because I already figured out where you live most likely." The Goddess of Wisdom said that with a self-satisfying nod. This means that she IS indeed close to finding where he lives.
"Indeed. That is a point to you. Since it took longer for Artemis to do what you just did, and she had her small army with her."
For a second Athena had a smug look which she hid quickly. In her eyes, hard facts and logic is much better than some gut feeling the hunters rely on constantly.
"I see… good to know. However, you didn't come here to praise for such simple things. What kind of test do you want to do?" She asked him. Simply put he is going to test her. Which by all means should piss her off that human is doing that to a Goddess.
While she has that feeling she buried it deep. The man is way, way, too dangerous to be treated like some casual annoyance. No one in history before turned a Goddess into a maid.
That's why Athena is treating this with as much caution as possible. Using regular means of transportation instead of her power or her chariot.
She has no idea what can provoke him...
Honestly, it's embarrassing but same time a novel experience. Travelling by bus is quite… refreshing, and a reminder that humans achieve quite a bit without supernatural powers.
"Let's start with something casual…" In front of him, a table with two chairs appeared. On this table was a set of chess prepared.
Athena's eyes widened, for the simple reason that he did this without any sort of energy. Once again she looked around. She could not sense anything or see anything… that moment she remembered the rainbow snow…
"Impressive isn't it? What you see is not real. The Realitus technomancy which I created is based on biology mixed with a little bit of magic and science.
While it can't intercept your sixth sense. The original five are very much easy to manipulate." With a casual hand wave, the surroundings morphed and turned into quite familiar surroundings.
What she saw landmarks from the city named after her. On the horizon, she could see the Mediterranean sea.
However… she knows this place quite a bit and she can see that while it looks nearly identical... it's not the same…
"Impressive… very impressive, however...I can still discern the truth from false…" She said with matter of fact tone.
"Thought so, after all this is still in alpha state. Not a perfect piece of technomancy. Using it in the field like this is something we testing it now. And you just pointed it out for me, that it's not perfect." He said that with quite a happy tone! Someone pointed out! Finally some feedback!
This made the Goddess of Wisdom sweatdrop, she can discern this because it's her city surroundings! And she watched over it for thousands of years! All she can say is that some of the surroundings look...fake? Like the current modern image of the surroundings was taken and guessed how it looked thousands of years ago… Only someone who has been there all the time can tell what is fake and what is not!
All she can say is that the technomancy is up to par but the historical facts are not!
And he is still treating this as… Alpha stage!? What madness is this? this guy is more of a perfectionist than her!
"I see… I can already feel that my sixth sense is telling me that I am not walking but I am walking. This is confusing." The Goddess pointed out the difference here as well.
To which Marcus nodded he is very satisfied with what she pointed out. He already knew this. But having real proof instead of theoretical one is even better!
More feedback! This is just great!
"Yes thought so. Let's get this game started shall we?" He motioned for her to take a seat while he did the same.
Once again Athena followed his request. Moments later they ended up sitting while facing each other. In front of them were the chess set.
"Any preference?" He asked her.
"No. I don't mind. You can pick it for me." She said simply. Just like he is observing her, she doing the same. Chess will allow her to dig deep into his personality and from there out, she will be able to advance accordingly.
Sure enough, he had black pieces and she had white. Moments later they started their game. There was no talking after that.
Still, though the Goddess was a little bit disappointed that she was started winning quite rapidly. She started taking his pieces out one by one in a matter of moments.
However, Marcus then started his counterattack. A smile crept up on the Goddess face. Little by little she started having fun!
Much more advanced tactics started to get used by the Goddess of Warfare. This kind of games are up her alley!
While it was fun while it lasted one had to win and one had to lose.
And this time Marcus lost.
"Another one?" He asked her, the teen inventor was not disappointed. More specifically the game served a higher purpose than just winning or losing.
"YES! I mean yes!" She said while fixing her glasses. When was the last time she had this much fun? Forgetting even that she just embarrassed herself like a silly girl…
Marcus just nodded and they started another game. This time it was intense from the very beginning. The Goddess was sweating buckets thinking of a bunch of tactics in advance while the teen inventor just like her was doing the same thing, making up tactics honestly he wasn't that good with tactics… but he is rapidly adapting to her.
The second game was much more intense and longer. Going down to a very small amount of pieces left for each.
However once again... Athena won.
While she was having fun she did learn quite a bit about her opponent. The beauty now can safely say that yes. She won't ge getting her half-sister back, her Pantheon is safe for now and he won't be attacking. Same time… however… she would like to stay more around him.
Maybe something like an ambassador from the Greek Pantheon? Something to think about in future…
"One more?" He said with an amused tone.
The Goddess of Wisdom quickly nodded her head in agreement. Duh! The more games like these the better!
Sure enough, the next game has put the Goddess on edge. Her opponent was now using her tactics and utilising new which she didn't expect he will do.
While the game was long she was on the defensive from the very beginning!
A very satisfying smile appeared on her face when her King was surrounded. Oh, she was annoyed that she was losing but same time she was very much satisfied that there is someone who can put her in such a place!
"And with this… its checkmate." Marcus moved his last remaining Rook to intercept the white King.
"Indeed. I have lost. Your learning curve is absurd. Even by my supernatural standards." The Goddess said with a bitter tone. However, there was quite a bit of happiness. The Goddess of Wisdom has finally found what she has been looking for as long as she can remember.
Someone who is perfect husband material! Not too cold, not too soft, absurdly intelligent, handsome, most likely building his faction.
This means she could just run away to him if she gets tired of her over the top eccentric family.
"My thanks. I haven't played chess with someone of your calibre." The teen said with a satisfied tone. Yep, he found someone good!
"Likewise. Assuming you learned what you wanted about me? Because I already did what I wanted. Still though. I want to meet you in person and talk face to face." She said that with quite a cute pout. Well, it came out as a sexy pout. Especially the way she did with her lips.
"Yes. I learned what I wanted, and I do want to meet face to face. Because I do want to show you some things. And there is no doubt you want to talk with your half-sister."
For a second Athena's mind went to the gutter when he said that he will show things. However, her logical side quickly took it over from her female side.
"Yes, of course. I do wish to talk about Artemis." The Goddess of Wisdom got reminded about her sister. Honestly, she forgot about her. She had too much fun with her dream man!
This just shows how much she is taken in by the male sitting opposite to her.
"You want to hear my side of things?" Marcus asked her.
"Yes. Then I will ask her side of things as well. What you did is quite absurd. No one in the history of mankind has...turned a Goddess into a maid." Athena said that those two words should not be said in the same sentence. 'Goddess' and 'maid' should not ever mix….
"It wasn't like that from the beginning. Nearly a year ago I just finished my first ever scale mail armour." Marcus motioned with his hand and not far from her, the Mark I appeared created through Realitus.
"It's a pseudo-Sacred Gear based upon Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing scale mails. However, they are much more state of the art and are not purely solidified energy like the originals. Combined with some of my technological as well as magical advancements, this armour could fight Ultimate Class beings with brute force alone.
However, with some of my more.. nastier techniques, I was able to seal off the energies of Artemis and her hunt."
Athena patiently listened how he explained. Just like she expected he has alot of passion for his creations. Honestly, she could just listen to him explain and wouldn't get tired of this.
Still, though now she understand what happened to her half-sister.
"You humiliated her and she wanted revenge by any means necessary. Leading her to another humiliation which turned her into your maid." Athena finished this for him.
"Exactly. Just like you she entered my lands and was planning to do some… questionable things to me. In the end, she wanted a duel of pure skill."
This time Athena's eyes widened. Her brain tried to understand how strong he is! If he has beaten Artemis in duel!
Artemis is stronger than her in pure physical fight. She is one most powerful Gods just below the Trinity of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades.
Yet, this man beat the Goddess of hunt in pure skill? She knows that Artemis is most experienced in fighting and physical sense as she is always active in the wilds…
This is big. Someone of this calibre, and is right under their noses… is worrying…well should be worrying. But she already knows as long as she leave him be he is not that dangerous.
"She lost and now she is my beautiful maid." He said that quite simply.
"...And... is it possible to get her back?" Athena asked casually as well. Trying to get into his type of conversation.
"Nope. She will die if she is to return to her old position." Marcus once again explained with a casual tone.
Making the Goddess of Wisdom gulp from nervousness. That casualness is… bit too much even for her.
"A contract?" The brown-haired Goddess asked respectfully.
"Yeah. To make sure she never tries something like this again. While I love cat and mouse games. Chasing the same mouse can be boring after some time." He explained quite simply to her.
"However, this doesn't mean you can't speak with her. Tomorrow when you arrive at my hometown you will be able to spend some time with her."
She nodded at him. Thankfully she will be able to have a proper image of this situation.
"Good! Now! Why don't we play a better game? And test the limits of this version of Realitus?" He asked her with a grin.
For some reason, she started to get excited. Is it going to be something big?
"I am fine by all means. Never played such gam---" She wasn't able to finish her sentence as she saw her surroundings change into simple plain… but what truly shocked her was…
Sounds of footsteps...alot of footsteps, armed footsteps. She turned around and saw blue and white-armed men. Dressed in classic Hoplite armour she could see their allegiance being to… Ancient Athens as they have her symbol of owl on their shields.
She then looked back and saw men from… Sparta dressed in bronze and red armours… and the ancient symbol of Sparta on their shields.
"This… is…" Her brain tried to catch up with what she saw. This was like she was transported back to the old days! And this was simply amazing! Most importantly there were thousands of these soldiers!
"The Peloponnesian War. Your side is the Athens. My side is Sparta. The way to use it…" Marcus brushed his finger down and a holographic window of the battle from eagle view appeared in front of him.
"Units have points. Each of us has 4000 points we use them to buy troops. Once we send them out we will start our clash." He explained to her before grinning with a silly grin.
"Ready to play God who leads their mortal men into a war?"
Hearing that she started laughing silly. Some tears started to fall from her eyes.
"Goddess, but yes. This is going to be very interesting. Countless times I had the urge to just descend and lead armies myself...now I can do that! Honestly, you just granted one of my old-time desires." She said with quite a bit of heat.
Marcus didn't know but he just scored very big in her heart scales.
"Good to hear. Why don't we start with this?" He said that with a grin and she gave her lustful grin back to him