Another hour passed and a decisive glint appeared in her eyes. Eris scanned over the entire palace with her divine senses. Her relief was immediate when she sensed Adam's life aura.
And when she probed deeper she realized It was no longer fading but seemed stronger now, far more powerful than it had been even prior to his mortal wound.
What had been a smoldering ember was now a raging flame. A wave of immense joy and relief she did not expect washed over her as gradually the painful knot in her chest began to unravel.
But after the relief came confusion. She had sensed something strange . . .
Adam and her mother's auras had intertwined? A bit of suspicion entered her eyes and she vanished into a dark fog.
She reappeared inside Nyx's chambers: where she had sensed Adam and her mother's auras.
But as she saw the decadent scene within, she was suddenly struck dumb and her eyes widened into saucers.
At first she was awed by Adam's impossible, hypnotic beauty and fell into a trance, but after recollecting herself, she slowly started to make sense of what she was seeing.
Nyx and Adam sensed the intruding presence, and for the first time in a long while the sultry moans and fiery groans that had filled the chamber for hours quieted.
In an uncharacteristic fit of panic Adam tried to get up, but Nyx pushed him down by his shoulders, bouncing once on him and sealing his lips for good measure, sending a jolt of pleasure through him to keep him obedient.
Then with a trail of saliva still linking their lips she flashed Eris a naughty, provocative smile.
Adam was inclined to say something. But sensing her rising anger, he decided that it may have been his best interest to keep quiet.
"Shameless, despicable harlot! Do you really have no conscience!?"
She was trembling with anger, but Nyx was unbotherd, replying unbashedly.
"Harlot? Is that anyway to speak to someone who just saved someone you care for? Or are you jealous I've laid claim to him? Don't worry, you're my beloved daughter, so I'll let you borrow him from time to time!"
"But make no mistake! He is mine!"
Eris gritted her teeth furiously and a vein throbbed on her forehead. Even she did not know why she was angry. Technically she and Adam were nothing to eachother. Sure he'd freed her and they had survived an assassination attempt together, but their relationship was purely transactional.
She knew this very clearly, but she still couldn't help but feel extremely pained to see him with another woman. Even If that woman was her own mother.
Before Eris could respond, Nyx struck again.
"Even if he is special to you, so what? He is to my liking, and I'm taking him away from you. What are you going to do about it?"
"You!"
Eris's form rippled unstably as she threatened assume a her more destructive, true form, but she seemed to restrain herself at the last second. Her furious eyes suddenly zeroed on Adam. Again she was dazzled by his divine visage, so much so that she almost forgot her anger.
But all she needed to see was her mother on top of him for her fury to ignite again.
"Don't you have anything to say?"
"What should I say? I have a weak spot for beauties. An I'm forced to admit that your mother is riveting, one in a trillion, realm destroying beauty!"
Nyx turned to Adam and smiled sweetly at him. A tender moment passed between the two, nearly causing Eris to vomit then and there.
"Adam! If you don't leave with me right now .."
Eris tried but couldn't think of anything to threaten the two adulterers with.
"To hell with both of you! Do whatever you want! I don't care anymore!"
Eris stamped her foot and burst into a black mist, disappearing through the chambers window soon after.
"To think she got so worked up over you. . .what a sinful man you are!"
Nyx teased as she began to rock her hips again.
"Maybe we shouldn't-"
Nyx let out a long throaty moan as she plunged down on his cock and covered his mouth with hers, effectively shutting him up.
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The two continued to indulge in eachothers bodies for a very long time after that. Adam's arrival had flipped a switch in Nyx. She could no longer imagine a life without him, nor did she want to. In the days that followed she would dismiss all the male spirits in her palace because they had all just become eyesores to look it.
She was unwilling take her eyes of him even for a second. She would eat with him, take her baths with him, and then sleep with her arms around him every night. She also actively sought out his touch, making sure a day did not go by without him pumping her full of his cum.
And she would dote on him too, withholding nothing in her realm from him and giving him everything he could ever desire. Eris had not been spotted since their falling out, but Nyx didn't bother herself with that. In any case she was certain that her daughter was safe—that was enough.
Every day that passed saw her obsession with Adam grow deep and immeasurable.
On one particular night, after an especially passionate lovemaking session, both Nyx and Asteria slept on either side of the large silk bed in Nyx's room, while Adam slept in the middle, his arms being used as pillows by both the goddesses.
The were both seemingly asleep. Gods did not tire physically, but they accumulated mental fatigue just like all other creatures.
Once in a while, they rquired their rest.
But Adam's enhanced body did not have any such weakness: For him sleep was entirely optional. And he was grateful for it, for this was the only time he ever got to be alone in his thoughts.
He glanced at the two goddesses by his side and a tender feeling immediately blossomed in his heart. He had despised Asteria at first but then he'd realised that she'd only made a bad decision due to rashness and folly.
She was unswervingly loyal to her master, definitely not a bad person. Her being a wonderful fuck also helped alot. Even he didn't know how many times he'd nutted into that delicious body of hers.
Adam did miss Eris and his conquests on Mount Olympus: Helen, Thallo, Eunomia, and Eirene. And he was certain they missed him more. He was fond of Nyx, but he couldn't stay in her domain forever.
He sighed, closing his eyes and entering his minds cape as he called.
"Lena?".
"My lord?"
"Have you finished carrying out the necessary investigations? I want answers."
"Yes, my lord!"
Immediately Lena projected a 3d Visual into Adam's mind; At fist Adam didn't understand what he was seeing. The object looked like a piece of living darkness— like a fragment of a black hole that had come alive.
"My scanners detected traces of this strange negative energy within your system. It's nature was inconsistent with with what energy is supposed to be, so I was confused at first. But I believe I understand now.
My lord, what you see is Nyx ."
Adam's pupils constricted into dots. "What do you mean "it's Nyx"?"
"I mean it quite literally, my lord. She shaved of a tiny piece of her divinity— her very essence and soul, and imbued it into your body. Because of the vast superiority of God's to all other creatures, even the tiniest bit of divinity has miraculous healing effects: being able to bring someone from the verge of death for example."
"So that's how I survived! But what of Nyx? Will what she did have any adverse effects on her?"
"She will definitely suffer some sort of consequence. . . But currently, we have no way of knowing what it will be. . .but my lord, you should worry about yourself first"
"What do you mean?"
Lena projected another image into his mind: It looked like a cluster of writhing urchins. Adam intuitively knew he was looking at a magnified visual of the Riorta Nanites.
But for them to cluster like that . . .
"The reason you regained your powers.. .
Is because the nanite hive detected a grave threat to its existence within your body and devoted all of its agents to removing that threat. Hence all the nanites in your skin, tendons, muscles all relocated to your bone marrow.
And since the more functional aspects of your physiology were no longer impaired, it allowed you to return to your former peak."
"So what is the cause of all this commotion then— the grave threat the nanites detected?"
Lena relayed a final visual to him: It was a single cell from his body, magnified a thousand times over. It should have been nothing extraordinary, but Adam's pupils dilated in alarm when he saw the cell.
The cell body itself was glowing dark red, while all its organelles pulsated with a strange unnatural rhythm.