A/N : Sorry for the inconsistent upload recently, I'm currently traveling and couldn't write everyday. The upload will be stable after wednesday or thrusday.
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When a woman walked in and everyone, even gods, stared at the woman as if they had found something divine, that was the time you knew the damn woman was beautiful.
Looking at the practically salivating mouths of all the adventurers, Orion felt like he was looking at a mirror image of himself when he first witnessed Marika's beauty.
Hestia was the first one to snap out of it, mainly because she had seen Marika before, and she herself was a goddess. Visible beauty itself wasn't that new to her. The same was the case with Loki, though her eyes couldn't leave Marika's divine blessing (her breasts) that easily.
"You… you, why the hell are you here?" Hestia snapped, glaring at the golden goddess with a practiced scowl — one she created just for her golden cow.
[But of course, I came looking for my child. Right… dear?]
Marika's lips curled up as her hands wrapped more possessively around Orion, making him gulp — half from the heavenly feeling at his back from his goddess's godhood pressure against him, and half for the inevitable explaining he might have to do after this point.
'Why the hell did she have to go and do something like this now? Couldn't she just stay hidden?' Orion felt like crying.
"Y-yes, Goddess." Orion replied with a half smile, while holding onto Marika's roaming hands that were dangerously reaching for his legs.
He could even hear the silent chuckle the goddess was trying to muffle at his expense.
While most adventurers only saw Marika's beauty and radiance, Hestia, Loki, and Freya through Syr's eyes saw the divine aura as well.
Hestia, being Hestia, never actually gave much thought about it. However, Loki and Freya certainly did. They felt the power of Arcanum on Marika.
Nothing out of the ordinary, since all gods and goddesses have their Arcanum… however, they are sealed when they arrive in the mortal plane. This goddess though — she didn't have her Arcanum sealed. Or at least she was very good at using it without drawing attention from Ouranos.
"What a pleasant surprise. I never knew another deity had descended to the mortal realm." Finn was the first one to say anything directly to the goddess, keeping his stare steady and voice firm while also showing enough reverence.
Unlike most gods or goddesses he had met in his life — which were quite a few for any mortal to meet — he had to say that this woman looked the most godly of them all. Even more than Freya.
Freya was beautiful, yes. However, she lacked something this goddess here had. She was practically bathed in divine radiance. This power was felt — it couldn't be explained.
Finn prided himself on having a good intel base in the city, so if he didn't know about her, it meant she had just recently descended. Orion had to be her only child.
Marika just gave a pleasant smile at the captain of the Loki Familia, not bothering to reply.
Her eyes instead darted toward Eina, and with a mischievous smile she said near Orion's ear,
[My my… taking a girl out to dinner without your goddess. Aren't you a naughty boy?]
She spoke in such a seductive charm that for a second Orion himself felt like he was in the wrong, before recalling that she had been right beside him the entire time. 'This woman, she's just having fun at my expense…' he fumed.
Eina, on the other hand, immediately blushed at the attention. She stumbled, unable to say anything — not that anything she could have said would have mattered in this instance.
"Goddess, what are you doing here?" Orion asked in a choked voice, helpless at his mischievous goddess's antics.
[I just came to take you home. It's not good for a growing boy like you to spend time with girls, you know. What if you get swayed? My poor maiden's heart will be shattered if that were to happen.] She teased, slowly caressing his face in a gentle motherly way. Those eyes told a completely different story, though.
"HEY! What do you think you're doing, you golden cow? Get off Orion-kun!" Hestia immediately leaped from her place, dragged Orion out of his seat and out of Marika's arms, and pulled him behind her to protect the boy from his goddess's clutches.
[My my… you're still here.]
Marika was graceful as always.
[Didn't quite see you there, Goddess of the Hearth.]
Hestia's face started to turn greener at this. Just before the smaller cow exploded, Loki on the side intervened.
"Wait a minute, I've never seen you up there before. Which pantheon's goddess are you from?" she asked, eyeing Marika from head to toe, especially her chest, with envy practically dripping from her.
[Pantheon? No, no… I don't belong to any pantheon.]
Marika gently swayed her head, pondering whether the old order could be called a pantheon since there were many demigods in it.
"If not any pantheon, then are you a standalone goddess? From some old religion?" Loki asked, trying to recall if she knew anyone like that. By just looking at Marika, she couldn't say — gods looked vastly different here in the mortal world than how they looked in heaven.
[Something like that.]
Marika shrugged.
Orion, on the side, was just amazed at how quickly the golden goddess had learned the style of English everyone spoke here. While talking to him, she still preferred her own classic Shakespearean English.
As for the others, seeing the goddesses talking among themselves, the Loki Familia and other adventurers didn't dare intervene in their chit-chat.
Orion could only sigh. His plan to stay out of sight and grow steadily was dashed by one reckless, bold move from his goddess.
Now he had no other option but to embrace the chaos that would come. If not for him — which made sense. Outside of what he could do — which none knew besides Marika, not even Eina and Hestia — and a few of his skills even Marika was unaware of, like resurrecting others — there wasn't anything special about him.
If anything was special, then it was his goddess.
Orion looked at the goddesses talking with each other — more like Hestia and Loki bickering while Marika effortlessly deflected the questions directed her way.
He just accepted reality.
"I didn't expect Goddess Marika to come here herself. I thought she was more reclusive in nature." Eina beside him finally mustered the courage to speak up after being put in the spotlight earlier by Marika.
"Yeah — she is mischievous like that." Orion grimaced.
Succumbing to his fate, he decided to leave the future headache to his future self. Tonight at least, he could relax and enjoy.
Everyone's eyes seemed to be on Marika, making her the center of attention. In this case, Orion didn't mind. He didn't like being in the spotlight anyway.
As for the Loki Familia, if earlier they were interested in Orion because of what Riveria said, then now the topic of interest was also the goddess who rivaled Freya in beauty, and none of them seemed to have any details about her legend.
"Orion." A sudden call attracted his attention away from the goddesses talking.
It was Riveria who called.
"Miss Riveria."
"Just call me Riveria," the elven beauty said in a calm tone.
"Yes." Orion nodded immediately. He was a bit hesitant in front of this elven royalty — not because of her beauty. He had seen enough of that already to not get flustered.
But she gave him the feeling of a very strict teacher or CEO. Both were a bane of his life before coming here. He would rather not interact with her if possible.
"Let's continue our talk afterward." Riveria said, clearly stating that she wasn't letting the matter of him accidentally being related to elven royalty go by any chance.
'Yup, this woman was trouble.' Orion knew it.
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A/N : Why suddenly go this route, becuase I wanna make story progress faster and this way MC is now force to interact with others. Future gonna be chaotic, hahahaha…
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