Local Dragon Ruins History 5 (Waifu Catalog, Nasu!Mythology)

I made the executive decision to delay our jaunt into another universe for a day in order to properly introduce ourselves to Demeter and get her up to speed with what was going on.

The best place to do so would be our home. I flicked my wrist, activating my ability to reduce the space between us and our home to zero. While my concept of [Absolutes] was a pain in the ass to train up, the sheer amount of bullshit feats I could do with a single technique if I was creative enough was worth the effort.

"W-well, thanks for coming all this way for me, though I believe it will be better to continue this within our humble abode."

I gestured to our quaint looking house built atop a small hill with some farmland surrounding it.

"Oh my? Is this your temple Nikaias?" Demeter had an ever present smile on her face as she seemingly scanned the structure of the building just by looking at it. Why temple though…?

Ah yes! The Atlanteans, her people, worshiped their gods in temples while we didn't have any formal religious buildings like that to act as our 'home' in the mortal realm.

"No, no! It's just our house."

"And by 'our', he's referring to himself and I."

Sothis chimed in while finishing up the rest of her popcorn, having consumed most of it as I frantically explained and convinced (+ subtly ordered) Demeter to listen calmly without going hysterical (acting like Hera). I managed to get her to stop hugging me to death, though I escaped her embrace, I only got around to negotiating her down to holding hands for the time being seeing as there were more important things to discuss.

"And you are?" The blonde-haired goddess questioned in a chirpy tone, one that was rather condescending especially after Demeter did her best to ignore her, but then again, what did I expect from a goddess?

Sothis smirked and helpfully informed her.

"I'm his wife. We've been married for over two hundred years."

In other words, I just got an impromptu pop quiz on de-escalating mythological conflicts.

Feeling the busty blonde's grip tightening along with her smile, I quickly went into damage control mode and rubbed the back of her hand, "Polygamy is legal and completely acceptable in our culture so don't worry, we'll sort this out in a bit."

As if a switch had been flipped, her mood went from potential yandere all the way round to happy girlfriend mode, "Oh! That's wonderful, why didn't you start with that?"

Oh, I don't know, maybe it was because I was getting bear-hugged?

It must run in the family… I have now gained additional sympathy for Orion.

I opened the door to our home and showed Demeter around. The interior design originally granted us quite a bit of walking space, but it's gotten rather cramped over the years as Sothis and I ended up collecting all sorts of artistic gifts (or offerings) from our followers and impulsively buying up any books of interest.

In other words, we were both hoarders. Leading Demeter into the small dining room, I excused myself briefly (with great reluctance on Demeter's part) so that I could prepare some food and drinks for her as a guest.

"-are you not venerated as a virgin goddess like Hestia? It's been two hundred years and-"

"-reproduce asexually and I had to wait until I regained my older form-"

My wife and wife-to-be suddenly began to discuss love and sex while I was in the kitchen!

I kinda understand the concept of 'girl-talk' and all but isn't this kind of leap a bit too far out of there? Then again, these two are goddesses and one of them is nominally a Greek goddess, whose pantheon (mostly Zeus) is into some real fucked up stuff.

"Hello ladies, just whipped us up some pasta and my house special, iced milk tea."

Sothis looked so utterly done with my most recent choices, "Those two shouldn't go well at all. But why would it matter, it's food magic, it just works!"

"Oh my! This is marvelous! I haven't consumed any mortal sustenance that would positively stimulate my organism sensory mimicry unit to this extent!" That is a rather round-a-bout way to say 'taste buds', "Ah! My divine core is being excited-"

After saying something about X (where X equals technobabble) machine unit in her body being overloaded once again, and once more with slightly different wording, Demeter ended up laying on the floor with a blissful expression on her face.

I may have overdid it by turning it up to foodgasm levels.

I looked to Sothis for help only to realize she ended up incapacitated in a similar fashion. No matter how much she complains about my nonsensical dish pairings it ends up just being a verbal front to avoid admitting that she's milking my reality breaking food for what it's worth.

Carrying the two of them into our bedroom, I shamelessly utilized my company-issued magical hands to massage them back into the waking world… lewdly.

Naturally, I started with my loving and helpful (debatable as of the past hour) wife Sothis, who was slightly more experienced in the matter. She would have complained if I began with the new woman, so that was just one more reason to begin with her.

"Is she still-"

Sothis stared at the big titty fertility goddess like she was watching a quirky human getting up to all sorts of nonsense while being drunk out of their mind.

"Aah…! Haa… haaaah!"

As expected from the goddess whose screams could render organisms from fully healthy to deceased in an instant! She's a real screamer!

"W-why haven't the mortals asked for autonomous 'massage' tools if it feels this good?"

"I don't know much about Atlantis but I'm pretty sure your people's back problems were solved by nanomachines so there isn't any need for this. Also, this is more like a unique perk of mine. Anyways, I'm glad that you were willing to trust my hospitality like this."

"Oh, it is a small matter. Besides, if you betrayed my trust, then I just have to punish my naughty husband a little!"

I was initially rather surprised that I got away with all this, only to realize that Demeter's 'defencelessness' was mainly borne out of the typical deity belief that they were invincible, twisted significantly by how she was bound to me.

"Wonderful… guess I'll start explaining then. The reason you're feeling this way is because we are bound together-" She nodded happily and eagerly, "-which confers many benefits to you as long as I live, I'll start with that since everyone likes hearing about the benefits first."

I started going through the talents and defenses that the binding came along with. For the sake of proving them quickly, I launched a swiftly made terminal from Demeter's machine god body into space, proving Wild Defense's effectiveness in bringing the previously space-faring god ability to function in space back to her peak and beyond that.

The defenses were easily proved after I had both Sothis and Demeter use a soul-damaging attack on each other to no effect.

"I see, so this is why my domain has been more secure than ever, and that Artemis began sending inquiries on why my location was inconsistent with the data from her sensors."

I've begun to notice that Demeter's speech patterns is a mix of robot, god and human instead of sticking to just the standard 'god vocabulary' and filling it with technical terms when necessary.

Then again, this is 14,000 years before she ended up as the Lostbelt's Demeter. She's never had to truly live among humans and rely on mortals at this point, most of the gods probably still live in their machine god forms instead of indulging in mortal pleasures, and she hasn't gone through over 10,000 years of tech upgrades together without interacting with humans like what happened to Lostbelt Artemis.

"I've been meaning to ask this, but you seem very happy with all this? Why is that?"

"Aphrodite said that love was natural and should be embraced. It is a core pillar of what makes life worth living. After reconciling what I feel for Persephone and this feeling, I made the decision to find this love to achieve happiness, so I overwrote some of my own programs to ignore a few of Zeus's ridiculous isolationist directives and devote myself to whoever my heart desires!"

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I was both overjoyed and horrified at the fact that she basically mind-fucked herself for me.

I… I should deal with this later. There's no need to panic or rush things.

With our combined powers and defenses we should be able to keep our relationship secret from the rest of the machine gods for a few centuries, plenty of time for me to sort things out with her.

"Words cannot describe how I feel for you."

"Truly? This is wonderful. I feel the same way."

Her sincere expression only made me feel like I was already in a standard mythology fuckup episode.

Sothis, thankfully, took pity on me and changed the topic, "Well, you two are getting along very nicely. Great, now, we can get on to making some arrangements to ensure your fellow gods won't blow this out of proportion. Specifically, Zeus."

Demeter winced, "Ah yes. He will only see this as an attempt to overthrow him."

I sighed and asked the uncomfortable question, "He's one of the top gods of this world and he's already this insecure?"

Demeter snorted, "With regards to his decision making ability… ever since we have arrived on this planet and observed the phenomenon that is 'emotion' I have found a number of rulings decreed by Zeus to be objectively illogical and driven by 'fear'. Fear of what I have yet to understand but I do believe I can trust your judgement in this."

"Yeah, about that… did I mention there's a god-killing alien vessel about to enter this universe in less than 800 years and that if we don't work together we're going to die horribly?"

We could just run away to another universe... but that would mean leaving the White Titan, Sefar, to rampage across the world (mostly Europe, according to the memories) and wiping out 80% of all civilization. If we did that we would need to rely on a random holy sword user to beam the Velber to death, but with how much the timeline has changed I'm not sure if we would even get support from the planet at this point.

"How accurate is this prediction?"

"Ah, just give me a moment, I'm the goddess of time so I'll get you a vision of a possible future right about… now. It's a bit unclear since I have problems seeing the threat but the end result speaks for itself."

It wasn't the first time I've seen one of Sothis's visions into the future, but this was the first time I've seen the falling machine bodies, depopulated continent and rampaging white titan so clearly.

And holy shit I didn't know it knew kung fu!

Figures. It literally absorbs civilization, knowledge, techniques, technology and all forms of magic like a sponge.

There's no rule saying that the original titan couldn't use all of it for itself. From what I've seen, the moment it snowballs by smashing and eating Artemis in space, making a mook out of Ares and taking the first prototypes for all divine constructs, his Photon Ray blade… all other divine spirits get rolled over like a cat being crushed by a steam roller.

"Nooooo! Persephone… Persephone…!"

I shot Sothis a look after she showed Demeter's daughter getting smashed into the ground. She quickly ended the viewing, apologizing for not realizing who it was sooner.

I spent several hours reassuring the machine goddess that we had plans to get more power and to avert the incoming calamity, after giving enough details she finally got back to her old self and was enthusiastic about joining us for our trip to another universe.

The next day, the two goddesses latched onto me as I followed the 'pull' of my Dragon Break perk to appear in the new dimension.

"Demeter, can you access the internet and confirm the date?"

"I have already done so. It is Age 749, September 1."

Gotta love the convenience about having a robo-god waifu.

"Excellent. Now then, let's exchange some of these precious metals for Zeni and then tag along the main group for a few days. Hidden, of course. We don't want to risk the Time Patrol and Chronoa coming for us, while we may be hidden from supernatural observation, they can still note the physical changes in the timeline and we aren't powerful enough to fight them off if that happens."

"Hey Nikaias, enough monologuing about your business trip plans, we gotta buy a camera and a DVD player." Sothis was eager to try out some modern amenities and technology.

Demeter made a suggestion, "If you seek such digital devices then I could procure them myself. The Atlantis departmental store is well-stocked and highly advanced."

… I completely forgot about the fact that they had 1,000 years to jump right ahead to the modern age before they stagnated. Granted, the population size and culture gave them huge limitations in media entertainment, but the technology was there.

"No! I didn't make all this shiny stuff for no good reason. I'm patronizing the local economy and that is that!"

Sothis was insistent however so we went along with the original plan.

8 days later, the seven dragon balls were gathered and a being of immense power was brought forth into existence.

Pilaf summoned Shenron just as it happened in canon. Before he could speak another word, Sothis froze the time of every being in the area except for Shenron, Demeter began editing everyone's memories according to canon specifications and I dropped a pair of panties I acquired from the institute's students unto Oolong's face.

The thing about getting away with messing with the timeline is to trick reality into thinking that everything is going according to plan. It's the same principle of going back in time and saving someone that is destined to die by using a soulless clone that would act out the person's last moments while taking the person you wanted to save to the future.

"I wish for all the knowledge over all existence to be granted in the form of-"

"That wish is beyond my power."

"How about just this universe? And can I get it into an indestructible tablet computer with unlimited memory and power?"

"This universe is fine. The format doesn't exist."

"Err, something like the Scroll of Eternity then? But with a search function."

"Your wish has been granted."

Shenron's eyes flashed red and a heavy white scroll filled with immense power was dropped into my hands.

"Fare thee well."

We fucked off just as the dragonballs scattered across the world while making sure that everything proceeded according to the original flow of time. Namely, Goku's monkey business.

Sothis, Demeter and I then retreated to a small hideaway and began examining the scrolls.

It was all here.

How to use Ki, Instant Transmission, how to make a power level scouter, pretty much every technique and knowledge that had existed in this universe at that point in time was here.

Granted, we would have to manually ask a question to get the answer, we didn't have the benefits of cross-referencing potentially similar information like a more advanced reading format would have but it was still freaking amazing!

"Okay, what's on the top of your wishlist? Sothis, you first."

"I want to learn the Clothes Beam. There are quite a number of school girl outfits I'm sure you'll love." Sothis gave me an idea I absolutely loved.

"How original. And you Demeter?"

"Instant Transmission!" Demeter was really into the idea of getting our rendezvous method sorted out and found the perfect technique after I briefed her about how bullshit this universe was.

"Daring today, aren't we?"

There is not a single person that enters the Dragonball Universe who doesn't want Instant Transmission (totally unbiased opinion).

Personally, I was thinking of learning how to unlock someone else's potential first.

Once I get that down then I can start work on making my own Potential Unleashed form.