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Chapter 14 - New Wishes

"Boy, you were summoned here because of a complaint you made against the god who granted you wishes. You state he did something that went against your wishes." A blonde-haired woman, who could only be described as a goddess said while standing before me. She had on silver armor, I didn't think she was a goddess, but more like a worker to the gods... although she did look godly... I wonder if Zeus slept with her.

"Yes, my client here had his mind tampered with. The god who granted his wishes had tempered with his memory. This goes against his wish to travel across other verses. How would he do so, if to travel to another verse he needs to collect a ticket by doing a said task? Some tasks require him to defeat a few people, such as Saitama. How would we know how to locate the guy if he doesn't even know where he is? If this isn't setting my client up for failure, then what is?" A red-haired man wearing a suit said while standing next to me. I was about to speak when he appeared, causing me to jump lightly.

"Loki!" Odin's eyes grew narrowed seeing Loki appearing, the god of mischief, they used to be like brothers, but once Loki's children stepped out of line... well, they became enemies. 

"List the wishes the boy made," Zeus said with a frown.

"Wish number one was a unique one. The god allowed for his first wish to allow the boy to take over the avatar of Ainz Ooal Gown and make almost any changes he wanted to it, while also allowing him the power to change the guild to some degree. This wish pretty much allowed him to gain the benefit of playing the game, without the need to do so" The blonde-haired woman said while looking at a paper in her hands, which I just only noticed.

"A cheap move done by a lesser god, showing he was trying to save his divinity," Loki said with a nod of his head.

"His second wish... it was a unique one, as he wanted a way to multiply death with death to birth life." She said with a slightly weird look, 

"Another cheap wish, a lesser god could have easily granted," Loki said with another nod of his head.

"The 3rd wish was for the NPC and himself to no longer have their game limitation, allowing them to level up past level 100, while also picking up new skills and abilities. the side effect of this is, the greater the NPC or himself level is, the easier the skills would be to learn, or even create..." She said to which Loki smirked as he didn't need to say anything to that.

"The 4th wish was to travel the multiverse... this wish was granted using the dimensional gap as a way to go from verse to verse, with tickets acting as the gateway to each verse. To get more tickets, he would need to know the verse so he could plan ahead, but his knowledge of every plot he had ever watched had been erased with fragments of them popping up." She said with a weird look as the god who made these wishes was surely going to die.

"So, we have a cheap wish-granting god, who is unwilling to follow the rules, but is going out of the way to do something dirty. All of these wishes were simple, a lesser god like him should have only used about 5% of his divinity to grant these wishes." Loki said with a smirk

"His last wish was for an ability known as the [Almighty] To fuse with his job class and racial classes, creating a new skill which he calls [Death's almighty]." She said with a weird look, since the skill wasn't perfectly recreated, it didn't cost that much divinity, at most this god used 10% of his divinity in granting the 5 wishes.

"My Client here demands 2 extra wishes, along with his mind returned to the way it should be, and to add a cherry on top, the need for tickets for him to travel from verse to verse to be removed," Loki said causing me to blink... when did I demand that? I couldn't even speak thanks to Loki doing something to me.

"That lesser god had even lied to him about him not being able to grant a few wishes, which he could fully do. I demand justice!" Loki said with a grin,

"Enough with the act... why are you playing this game? Why would you take up such interest in this boy?" Odin asked with his one eye narrowed. I also wanted to know the answer to that.

"What do you mean? I just wanted justice. if all gods start acting the same way that lesser god is acting, wouldn't this lead to new rules being born?" Loki asked causing the air to pause lightly, as clearly no one wanted that.

"I vote for the Lesser god to grant the 2 wishes, even if it costs his life," Zeus said calmly, he was already bugged by the rules. He looked forward to hanging out with the mortals, unlike most gods, Zeus truly loved the mortals. Spending time with them, talking about the beauty of life... so it displeased him greatly that a new rule could be born that would force him or make it harder for him to be with the mortals he loved so deeply.

"Same," Shiva said with an uninterested look, clearly he wouldn't be here if the concern didn't risk the birth of a new law.

Well, everyone agreed with Zeus, although Odin wasn't sure since Loki was a part of this. This new Loki wasn't the same as in the past, ever since he punished Loki's children who had the risk of slaughtering the gods, Loki has begun to change. This matter had no right or wrong, Odin acted for the sake of the gods, and Loki was a parent. How would you like watching your child chained up, all freedom and rights taken from it when your son had done nothing to deserve the punishment just yet?

Well, with the gods coming to one agreement, the god who had granted my wish was summoned. To say the least, the god was shocked to find himself standing before the Kings of the gods, a lesser god like him wasn't worthy of ever seeing such mighty beings... but if he did see them, it was most likely not a good thing, so he was horrified, that's even more so when he saw me.

"... Boy, state your two wishes," Zeus said, not even bothering to acknowledge the lesser god's existence. With Zeus's words, I found myself able to speak, I looked at Loki with unease, but Loki just gave me a playful look.

"I wish for Instant Death," I said lightly, causing all of the god's eyes to twitch. Seeing this, I realized that that ability was a bit too overpowered even for them to grant.

"I meant, I wish for it to be fused with my racial and job classes," I said to which Zeus nodded while pointing his finger at the lesser god. White lightning shot from his finger, hitting the lesser god, and with a pained scream, the lesser god's divinity was forcefully taken to grant my wish.

"The next wish can't be too overpowered," Zeus said to which I closed my eyes to think for some time.

'The next wish can't be a power, it would be easier for me to create and learn skills as I grow stronger, so my next wish should be around the concept of information. How about I wish for the knowledge of someone... I need knowledge of someone who has the knowledge to do with conceptual beings, and creating spells and other such things.' I thought while my mind fell on Rimuru. No, most of his knowledge is thanks to Ciel.

'Anos? That guy could create spells on the spot, could grab the concept of others, and could even cast spells with his concept after his body and soul were destroyed. I heard that even the most basic spell he cast could target the concept of someone... I could wish for luck.' I thought while biting my thumb, wondering what was the best move right now.

"I wish to have all of Anos' knowledge and experience," I said lightly, to which the air seemed to go quiet for a second.

"Grant the wish," Loki said with a smile. The reason they hesitated was simple, this wish would cost the god's life. But as Zeus said, the wish would be granted even at the cost of the god's life. Knowledge and experience didn't cost as much compared to abilities, but still, this would cost the god's life...

The god's body exploded into divinity, which all entered my body. Before I could even react, a sea of knowledge filled my head, I fell into the abyss known as magic, I saw everything through Anos' eyes, things that should have been complex for me turning into simple stuff as I could feel how Anos thought, how he saw problems and broke them apart... I didn't know how long it took me to go through years of knowledge, learning everything there was to learn, before I opened my eyes, and found myself back in the forest.

"... Wow," I said in amazement, looking around, I had the same pair of eyes, but my mind was completely different right now. be it the magic I held or the fact my knowledge of everything I watched was back... everything seemed different now