This is a is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon fanfiction only.
As the truth of my condition dawned on them I began to try and relax a little bit because I don't think they are quite done with their questions, "So the pieces of your war hammer are inside the dungeon, do you know how many pieces at least? and how could your weapon be broken like that."
I told them that this is not the first time my hammer was broken into pieces, as for the number of pieces I would guess no less than five since I find myself in this weakened form, my hammer is a representation of my power and thus when it was broken, some could say that I got broken as well, hence the depowered state that I am in. "I honestly thought this was one of the pranks that Loki used to pull on us and my siblings, but seeing that she is genuinely looking for the pieces and the fact Hades told me it wasn't the actions of Loki, makes me wonder who did this to me, and more importantly why."
I looked at them, and at the weapons my lover made, "In truth, if I try to use even my weakest attack through any normal weapon, that thing would be destroyed, so it is only through this knife and sword that I can use some of my attack skills, but even that is severely limited. It is like fighting with an arm and leg tied behind your back, you know you can fight but can you really do your best like that? No, of course, you can't. The only reason I can speak about this at all is that I know all of you will keep my secret, it is bad enough that Freya already knows who I am, if my followers find out, they would no longer believe in me, and without that faith even if I manage to get my hammer back, I would still be as diminished as I am. Faith that a worshiper had in a deity is vital for that deity, that is why some deities which to establish monotheistic faith, to hoard all the faith for themselves."
Upon hearing this Lily asked do many people actually offer prayers and worship him at all, much to my discomfort I had to admit that worship of the Norse Pantheon is rather slim from what they had been but every little bit helps, that is why so many gods form Familia in the first place.
Hestia was quick to mention that they haven't done that in Orario in a thousand years. "A lot of things changed in a thousand years, none of us really have any worshippers anymore other than our Familia members."
I finally realized that in fact, my lover has her divine power sealed, so knowing this I had to literally walk over to her and ask to speak with her in private at her home, I talk with her about what just happened with a member of her Familia, as the discussion was over I told them that I needed to do something particularly important to me. "I will be back as soon as I get done, so please don't wait up for me, speaking of which where is the daughter of Cerberus? I don't think we actually got her back to her father, so I might need to speak with Cerberus at some point today, he and his mate must be worried sick about her."
I began to walk away while Hestia was simply smiling and telling me to be careful and to pick up a few groceries for her by the time I went back to the chapel. Mihra was talking with Hestia about what they heard and they were looking at Welf who was blushing remembering what she had enjoyed.
As I walked into the office of my lover she smiled as I walked up to her desk, as I sat down on the chair I felt rather sad that I had basically cheated on her with Welf, but I remember what that plaque Welf had explaining something, never mind that this ended up getting me and her fucking till she could no longer stay awake.
"Hephaestus my love, I have to apologize, I somehow ended up sleeping with a member of your Familia, I hope that you can forgive me for my indiscretions." As Hephaestus heard me, she began to laugh, as she looked at me, she told me Welf already asked for her permission to sleep with me and she actually approved but really she asked what was really troubling me.
I looked at her and I couldn't keep it hidden anymore, as I told her that I had no clue about the gods having their divine power sealed, "I had no idea that all the other gods sealed their power to be basically the same as I am, except my power isn't seal at all, so I had no clue this was the case otherwise I would have simply done something differently." She immediately asked me what would I have done differently, to which I simply told her that I would have spent many more nights of passion together, instead of having to abstain from being with my lover.
She began to look at me and she decided to tell me something I didn't expect, "Bell the only reason I never told you that is because back when we lived in the divine realm, you used to tire me out to the point I was unable to move for days, I enjoyed our lovemaking immensely that is true, but I was useless for days after, no matter what we did, I couldn't tire you out, and you were willing to go for so much longer than any man I ever heard off."
She looked at me as I realized that I had done that to her, "And to make matters worse if we start making love right now, where my powers are sealed, we would be right back to how it was back then, but unlike before I have a Familia with so many people depending on me, I can't do that and be useless to them when they need me, so for the sake of my Familia and for me to be able to be active I had to abstain from being with you, it was a sacrifice that I had to make, but then I remembered that maybe if you had a harem then at least you wouldn't be sexually frustrated, and I came up with a plan."
Now this is not what I was expecting at all, honestly, I was still trying to process everything she just finished telling me, "The plan is to make a harem for you, if I couldn't tire you out, then multiple women could, and to do that I gave Welf that plaque, I am not against you sleeping with her since I approved, that is it, any girl that wants to join your harem must come to me, and if I approve they are in, but if I don't, not happening, and to make it clear, no matter how many join, I shall always be the leader of it and your number one wife."
So this made me feel a little less guilty about this but to think she would actually plan something like this, just to make sure my physical needs were met, I never even thought that was an option, honestly I was afraid that she would break up with me and end our relationship, but this? I didn't expect it. As she sat near me she took hold of my hand and without even giving me a chance to say anything, she kissed me passionately, something tells me there is something that will happen that is going to be quite shocking for her to react like that.
"As for the harem, I approve of that elf that joined your party, and even the supporter, Welf has been telling me good things about them, and they clearly love you, even if you clearly never noticed it, I also have approved a few goddesses who have spoken interest in you when I told them tales of the days when we made love, one of them is, in fact, the friend whom I asked you to help, so yes Thor, I want you to take my friend Hestia out on a date, and yes I want you to fuck her just as hard as you used to fuck me."
That made me worried for several reasons, I told her that was impossible, Hestia made a vow of celibacy as one of the Greek virgin goddesses, and she made an oath on the river Styx, that is something even those in my pantheon knew was not something that should be broken so casually. "Thor, the Goddess that accepts those vows is on Earth right now, and her powers are effectively sealed, so that means those vows are essentially meaningless, you have nothing to worry about, even if you fuck her it will not harm her in any way. You heard me, I want you to take her out on a date and then I want her to experience what I did whenever we made love."
Well the only concern to me is that she might not want to go on a date with me after so many times I rejected her romantic advances, and I did so many, many times. To be honest I figured that I would only be married to one woman, for the rest of eternity, like I often heard mother say she wished she could be with dad.
"Alright, if that is your desire I guess I can't very well just deny it, but there is no guarantee that Hestia would want to go on a date with me, much less think about sleeping we me after a single date, but at least I hope she is not as bad as Freya in her pestering me. Never mind that I now need to expand the chapel, add more rooms to it, and to make matters worse I am badly in need of speaking with my old drinking buddy. One of his Familia members has been suffering from abuse and outright assault by the other members and to make matters worse, the one getting robbed blind and beaten is his daughter."
They used her to carry their stuff and pick any gems and items that fall from killing monsters, no better than a slave, but they often do not pay her the fair share and often beat her up and take most of her valis, I heard many rumors and gossip while eating at the restaurant I invest in, and some of the staff actually did me the favor of checking and those rumors turned out to be true. I need to speak with Soma as quickly as possible, his own daughter wants to leave his Familia since she is so utterly miserable there, and I know she only is collecting money to pay the fee to leave it, but this will end up hurting Soma like few things in his life, his own daughter wanted to be away from him and be willing to pay a fortune to do so.
"I think I understand, your supporter Lily was it, as it happens she too asked me for my approval to pursue a relationship with you, don't like the fact that she is the daughter of Soma of all people but seeing that she is sincere I gave her I approved, otherwise she is liable to try to get fresh with you regardless if I approve or not, all the while using the excuse that you two were drunk."
I of course needed to remind her that more than likely Mirha is not going to be happy if that happens, and pissing off a person in the guild is never a good idea, Eina would be rather upset for such scandalous behavior from a person in my team, she is my dungeon advisor after all. My lover said that those two also happen to be women who want to pursue a much more intimate relationship with me, to which I began to wonder just how many women would end up joining this particular harem of mine, it felt like more and more women were seeking her approval let them join it, I honestly was never one of the most alluring Norse gods, then again back then I did drink rather heavily and had a much different physique.
It seems since I got my hammer stolen from me affected me in ways that I am still struggling to recover from, but all in all, I am making good progress as a human adventurer, not a very happy thought, but since I had this heart to heart conversation with my lover, I at least feel a little less guilty or ashamed than I did before, but why would Hestia want to go on a date with me of all people, she is the sister of Zeus for crying out loud. I still remember the way Zeus reacted whenever I was near him, again, it's not my fault that his precious thunderbolt is a downgraded version of what I can do.
As I walked back to the chapel I began to plan a way to ask Hestia out on a date that would be respectful, dignified, and not make her uncomfortable or insulted, it was not an easy thing to do, since I had never done that before, in fact, every person whom I ever dated being deities or mortals, the ones that asked were always the women asking me out, not the other way around. Come to think of it I never asked any woman out on a date, ever, so this must be what Heimdall called it first-time jitters.
Frey would simply call it me being too cowardly, then again he never was happy with the way his sister was always chasing after me, as I went to the restaurant I could see quite the commotion, something must be happening but it couldn't be that bad since Mama Mia was not putting a stop to it, as she usually does when customers misbehave or a situation goes out of hand, which usually result in me needing to repair or replace something. I know she is a retired adventurer, but even I know that she is not someone anyone would or should mess with when she is angry.
"Bell just the guy we wanted to see, apparently someone who came to our restaurant left something and they said it was for you, they left this rather expensive looking book for you, they even said it was for you by name, which we have to admit that took us by surprise, Anya has been wondering what the hell did you do to get such a gift from that lady? Ryuu simply didn't show much interest in it and simply told us it must be a gift from a person who is interested in either working with me or wanted to start a relationship with me."
That wouldn't be so strange I actively try to form friendly relations with other Familia to slowly grow my network of connections, I know that having friends who can do many different things will eventually become necessary, considering that I know these times of peace will not last forever, as much as many would wish it to be so. "Thank you for keeping this book safe for me Syr, someone else might want to sell it, I think the cover pretty much tells me this book is one of the ancient grimoire, a magic book that is probably so expensive a person could buy a palace with the money made from selling this, but the knowledge that is contained within is probably even more valuable than that."
She immediately asked me what could possibly be in an old book like that, like I couldn't tell somehow she knew exactly what the book was, "Grimoire was written by practitioners of magic, they contain a person's knowledge, experiments, skills, and even spells that person developed throughout their lives, in some cases they are a collective work, spanning generations, and in some rare cases they are the work of a single person. The Key of Solomon, The Scrolls of the Dead, and the Book of the Dead were penned by a mad mage called the Necronomicon. Each one of the ones I mentioned holds forbidden knowledge that many would or could not handle what is written on and go insane, but looking at the bindings of this book tells me this is more than likely a book from the era when the Key of Solomon was first written, so no real threat of me losing my mind. As to what I will obtain, probably magic theory, and knowledge, who knows I might be able to learn a spell, I am sort of looking forward to unwinding after this day is over with a good book I wish I could thank the person that did this."
I said that last part to see what her reaction was since I suspected that it was no mere coincidence that the book was left in this restaurant, a place that had such strong ties with the Freya Familia, but much to her credit, Syr didn't react in the way I expected at all, she looked completely calm, and even as I tried to listen to the heartbeats of those around me, I heard no change in Syr's pulse at all. I really have to remember never to play poker or make a bet with her, because she has one hell of a poker face and deep down I know I would lose.
My meal was essentially the stuff on the daily menu, it was things that don't sell that often and thus it is also called the cheap menu by some who should know better than to say that in front of Mama Mia, cause the very notion that any of the food that is prepared in her restaurant to be called that, it would upset her to the point that I had to repair and reinforce that counter more times than what I thought was possible.
A meal consisting of various dishes involving various forms of potatoes, sweet potato pudding for dessert, backed and scalloped potatoes for the side dish, and baked stuffed potato for the main dish, like I said potatoes in every dish of my meal, however, it also means they were not as expensive as say the baked fish or the stewed salmon, I may not say this but I do in fact always enjoy my meals in this place, which is why I am such a major investor to this place. Many adventurers use this place to meet up, form teams and even chat and share information with other adventurers.
As I finished my meal, and I thanked Mama Mia for yet another wonderful meal, I took some time to do the minor repairs that I knew were bound to happen, there is always something that needs to be repaired, and the wait staff might look like adorable girls dressed in maid outfits, but I knew better, these people could give top adventurers a run for their money. Mama Mia is strong enough to kill high-ranked monsters by herself.
As I finally was ready to leave I thought for a second that I was seeing double, as I walked up to Syr and asked her if I was seeing things, much to my shock Syr was actually happy that I did because she finally got the chance to introduce to me her twin sister, that made me more confused than anything else, who was it that met me with a packed lunchbox before, was it Syr or her sister?
I decided to ask and her sister began to laugh, "You find it confusing, well it is a bit of a running gag in our family that sometimes we pretend to be each other, for instance, yes, I did meet you a couple of times when you were headed towards the dungeon, but you should have been able to tell it wasn't my sister Syr, I don't blush as much as she does whenever she is near you. I am Horn, some people in the Freya Familia call me Herun, the second clue that you are talking to me is that I chose clothes that are much more reserved than my sister here, honestly, sister if you are trying to get him to like you, just say so, all of these attempts to gain his amorous attention is quite frustrating to see."
I looked at the sister who I now knew as Horn and began to shake my head, and told her that would be a major issue, I do in fact have a very dedicated and considerate lover, but the weird thing is that she insists that I need a harem, and she apparently is trying to form it herself, in fact she will not let anyone as much as ask me out on a date without being asked for her permission. She of course is not someone anyone would dare to step over, especially if they are adventurers.
This made both sisters apparently curious about the reason and they both asked me at the same time who she was, to which I could only take a deep breath to calm myself, as I told them, Hephaestus.
Horn asked if he was sleeping with her does that mean did I get free gear and weapons from my lover? I told them no, I am not her lover to take advantage of her since it would be absolutely wrong, I didn't start a relationship for such greedy and immoral reasons, in fact, I was so insulted that I simply walked out of the restaurant, much to the shock of both sisters who looked like they couldn't believe it.
I walked towards the chapel and was still secretly upset about what was said and only managed to calm down enough by the time I made it to the chapel, as I walked in Hestia was talking with Lily about something I had not even thought about where the hell is she going to sleep, and for some reason, Hestia said that it was bad enough that Mirha sneaked into my room but she was not going to have Lily do the same, so she decided that if she was to live in the chapel she would sleep on the sofa that was right next to her bed.
Lily didn't even complain, she even said that in order to be able to pay off the fee to leave the Soma Familia she had been living in an absolute dump, and everything she ever earned was kept locked in a place that required the key that she was holding, "In fact goddess Hestia as proof that I have no ill will towards you and as a sign of trust you get to keep this key with you, the only thing I ask is that you give it back to me when I need to add more to my stash I am saving to one day be free from that pack of backstabbing assholes that been taking advantage of me."
She laughed and said that in three days Soma was going to meet with Hephaestus in the chapel, and Lily would finally be able to tell her father exactly what she wanted to do, and why she wanted to leave his familia, Hestia laughed as she mentioned that Hephaestus pretty much told the captain of the Familia if Soma does not meet her at their home in three days she would black list every member of the Soma Familia.
Lily for some odd reason couldn't help herself as she started to laugh, and Mirha asked me how was my day? I told them it was not so different than any other day, except for the fact that I found that my lover was forming a harem, and she would allow any woman that she approves of and to make matters worse apparently she made another request of me, to which Hestia asked, what was it that she asked for? I looked at Hestia as the two other women looked at me, "Actually she asked me to ask you on a date and make sure that it is extremely enjoyable for you, so Hestia, tomorrow is a day I don't plan to go to the dungeon since Lily here is going to go to a meeting with her Familia, so would you like to go on a date with me?"