A few hours and a good breakfast later I was in Skulds room to learn about how the Yggdrassil system works and how the debugging works. The training was long and pretty intense, mostly due to the massive size of Yggdrassil and the amount of effort it takes to debug.
The first few days I mostly followed Skuld around, staying far away from the other gods. When I got more experienced and learned about the social workings of heaven (which are bloody, bloody complex) and the things gods do (which are remarkably the same as ours, but that's due to the fact that we without knowing emulate the gods).
I met with several of the other gods in a short time, being introduced by Skuld to them. She mostly picked the younger and creative gods and goddesses. I liked most of them on first contact, except one, to this date I really hate him.
The one god who made me fume the moment I saw him, totally drunk and driving some kind of heavens version of a Porsche, Bacchus. I nearly snapped and attacked him the moment I saw him. That guy is the utter representation of alcohol in all it's forms, from the form that so generally makes many of my friends alcoholics during the weekends and parties, to the form of dangerously insane people who cheerfully tank themselves and then go onto the street in their cars without any care for others. Like the one who hit Whitestag and her daughter AND KILLED THEM.
Then he asked me and Skuld to join him for a some beer. I snapped. I changed and charged at him yelling murderer. He reacted rather calmly and proceeded to blast me with a full power (of a god with Power Level 1.900.000 nonetheless) force bolt. I should have been obliterated by it, but I was only stunned. He saw that he hadn't even scratched me and took the moment of confusion to disappear.
A bit later when I had calmed down and was back at the temple Skuld asked me what that was about. I told her about how I lost one of my 'soulmates' to a human like Bacchus. How she had been hit and run, how that that monster escaped justice with only seven years of jail and about the fact that not only she, but also her daughter died that day and that her husband had been severely maimed. Skuld consoled me by offering to visit Whitestag in the afterlife.
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I was in a very hot headed state the following days. Which resulted in a very interesting meeting with the demoness Mara. Mara for starters is a very pretty looking woman in her early twenties like Urd. She has a kaukasian look with a well trained body. Yellow/white (not like blonde) long hair that seems to have been twisted around a log and then fixated, really weird looking. Her small pupils make her eyes very mysterious, that combined with the / marking on her forehead. Her clothing was something I would say is partly casual and partly like something a S&M dominatrix would wear.
The whole household (me, Skuld and Urd as the other two had gone of to Nekomi Tech) was outside in no time. Skuld made me hide before Mara could see me as I couldn't really do anything against Mara so I walked around the garden and sneaked up behind Mara to observe. The very beautiful looking demoness was laughing at Urd and Skuld, declaring that she had finally found a way to separate Keicchi and Belldandy permanently and that the goddesses hadn't gotten any chance to stop her.
But I had. I rushed her from behind and bear-hugged her in a double way, using my wings as well. This caught her totally unaware and she couldn't escape. She struggled, but was stopped by my adjusting strength. Her look was one of total confusion as she realized what was holding her (and partly where as it was rather, close). She probably considered me a traitorous demon seeing my wings, but as she had a close look at my celestial symbol (blue for celestials and brown for fiends) she realized that I wasn't a demon. She begged me to release her, but I first let Urd search her and retrieve some kind of powder. As Urd found that I noted a small change in Mara's eyes, they went from unhappiness to fear, better said desperation. There was more going on than I knew, but seeing what she was and what she had done in the past I pushed her away from the temple as Urd destroyed the powder.
Mara looked pretty upset and started to launch a volley of force bolts at us (force bolts are the common name for various kinds of magical attacks, they include pure magic to fireballs or Zeus's lightningbolts) the only thing they hit were me as I had interposed myself, stretching my wings completely. As the same quick increase of toughness activated as with Bacchus the bolts were like darts hitting a brick wall. This gave Mara one last option, flee. She did.
That is also the point that I learned about using to much magical energy while on earth, absorbing those blasts drained me too much and I fell asleep right on the spot. I woke up a bit later as bottle of chocolate milk was emptied into my mouth.
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The month after this was rather uneventful on earth. I primarily adjusted to my new life and learned my new job.
Kami-Sama had heard about the encounters with Bacchus and Mara. He did give me a lecture about attacking gods, but encouraged me to seek out some of the warrior gods and spirits to train me in the martial arts. So I did.
With some help of Urd I went to a part of the realm of the dead to seek out one of the best martial artists ever. Bruce Lee. Yeah, you heard me, I took lessons from him. But I don't come close to his speed and skill. At least I did learn something from him.
In a short time I met and trained with several ancient human warriors like sir Lancelot and Attila the Hun (has cleaned up his act in the last few centuries).
I trained with them to avoid the big league, that of the gods, until I had a descent basis.
After the first month of learning I had a neat daily routine, in the morning I would train, in the midday I would study with Skuld and in the evening I had either time to myself or for training the basics of magic.
The second month was my start to train with some of the upper league. The first one I found willing to train me (mostly out of boredom) was Athena. She is a very enjoyable lady until she is in combat, then she is ruthless. The fun part was that she tried in all earnest to get me tired, she couldn't get me tired that much, but got tired herself after nearly twenty hours. (Got to love my special powers.)
After a long training she simply dumped me in one of the training rooms of a war god, to be more precise the training room of Mars. Who was there at the moment feeling rather happy to get a sparring partner. I never before had to run that much.
The first few days I mostly followed Skuld around, staying far away from the other gods. When I got more experienced and learned about the social workings of heaven (which are bloody, bloody complex) and the things gods do (which are remarkably the same as ours, but that's due to the fact that we without knowing emulate the gods).
I met with several of the other gods in a short time, being introduced by Skuld to them. She mostly picked the younger and creative gods and goddesses. I liked most of them on first contact, except one, to this date I really hate him.
The one god who made me fume the moment I saw him, totally drunk and driving some kind of heavens version of a Porsche, Bacchus. I nearly snapped and attacked him the moment I saw him. That guy is the utter representation of alcohol in all it's forms, from the form that so generally makes many of my friends alcoholics during the weekends and parties, to the form of dangerously insane people who cheerfully tank themselves and then go onto the street in their cars without any care for others. Like the one who hit Whitestag and her daughter AND KILLED THEM.
Then he asked me and Skuld to join him for a some beer. I snapped. I changed and charged at him yelling murderer. He reacted rather calmly and proceeded to blast me with a full power (of a god with Power Level 1.900.000 nonetheless) force bolt. I should have been obliterated by it, but I was only stunned. He saw that he hadn't even scratched me and took the moment of confusion to disappear.
A bit later when I had calmed down and was back at the temple Skuld asked me what that was about. I told her about how I lost one of my 'soulmates' to a human like Bacchus. How she had been hit and run, how that that monster escaped justice with only seven years of jail and about the fact that not only she, but also her daughter died that day and that her husband had been severely maimed. Skuld consoled me by offering to visit Whitestag in the afterlife.
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I was in a very hot headed state the following days. Which resulted in a very interesting meeting with the demoness Mara. Mara for starters is a very pretty looking woman in her early twenties like Urd. She has a kaukasian look with a well trained body. Yellow/white (not like blonde) long hair that seems to have been twisted around a log and then fixated, really weird looking. Her small pupils make her eyes very mysterious, that combined with the / marking on her forehead. Her clothing was something I would say is partly casual and partly like something a S&M dominatrix would wear.
The whole household (me, Skuld and Urd as the other two had gone of to Nekomi Tech) was outside in no time. Skuld made me hide before Mara could see me as I couldn't really do anything against Mara so I walked around the garden and sneaked up behind Mara to observe. The very beautiful looking demoness was laughing at Urd and Skuld, declaring that she had finally found a way to separate Keicchi and Belldandy permanently and that the goddesses hadn't gotten any chance to stop her.
But I had. I rushed her from behind and bear-hugged her in a double way, using my wings as well. This caught her totally unaware and she couldn't escape. She struggled, but was stopped by my adjusting strength. Her look was one of total confusion as she realized what was holding her (and partly where as it was rather, close). She probably considered me a traitorous demon seeing my wings, but as she had a close look at my celestial symbol (blue for celestials and brown for fiends) she realized that I wasn't a demon. She begged me to release her, but I first let Urd search her and retrieve some kind of powder. As Urd found that I noted a small change in Mara's eyes, they went from unhappiness to fear, better said desperation. There was more going on than I knew, but seeing what she was and what she had done in the past I pushed her away from the temple as Urd destroyed the powder.
Mara looked pretty upset and started to launch a volley of force bolts at us (force bolts are the common name for various kinds of magical attacks, they include pure magic to fireballs or Zeus's lightningbolts) the only thing they hit were me as I had interposed myself, stretching my wings completely. As the same quick increase of toughness activated as with Bacchus the bolts were like darts hitting a brick wall. This gave Mara one last option, flee. She did.
That is also the point that I learned about using to much magical energy while on earth, absorbing those blasts drained me too much and I fell asleep right on the spot. I woke up a bit later as bottle of chocolate milk was emptied into my mouth.
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The month after this was rather uneventful on earth. I primarily adjusted to my new life and learned my new job.
Kami-Sama had heard about the encounters with Bacchus and Mara. He did give me a lecture about attacking gods, but encouraged me to seek out some of the warrior gods and spirits to train me in the martial arts. So I did.
With some help of Urd I went to a part of the realm of the dead to seek out one of the best martial artists ever. Bruce Lee. Yeah, you heard me, I took lessons from him. But I don't come close to his speed and skill. At least I did learn something from him.
In a short time I met and trained with several ancient human warriors like sir Lancelot and Attila the Hun (has cleaned up his act in the last few centuries).
I trained with them to avoid the big league, that of the gods, until I had a descent basis.
After the first month of learning I had a neat daily routine, in the morning I would train, in the midday I would study with Skuld and in the evening I had either time to myself or for training the basics of magic.
The second month was my start to train with some of the upper league. The first one I found willing to train me (mostly out of boredom) was Athena. She is a very enjoyable lady until she is in combat, then she is ruthless. The fun part was that she tried in all earnest to get me tired, she couldn't get me tired that much, but got tired herself after nearly twenty hours. (Got to love my special powers.)
After a long training she simply dumped me in one of the training rooms of a war god, to be more precise the training room of Mars. Who was there at the moment feeling rather happy to get a sparring partner. I never before had to run that much.