She had even thought to descend onto the stage and gave him a long wet kiss when she caught herself.
She have Aateria a few orders before she waved her hands a great darkness descended over the tire amphitheater, transporting herself, Adam, Asteria, Athena, Perces, and Echidna back to her throneroom. Athena was the first to speak.
"Enjoy this." She said as her emotionless gaze met Nyx's.
"But know that this changes nothing about what is coming.
Your realm, and your throne. ..are all coming to an end. This—" She gestured toward Adam,
"Was nothing but a slight inconvenience."
She turned and faced the heavy metal doors.
"You have won a few days respite from me and so your doom is delayed, but destiny arrives all the same."
As she finished speaking her gaze finally trailed to Adam. It was filled with a strangeness he did not understand.
Then she raised her hand and the figures of herself, Echidna, and Perses vanished.
"Master is the primordial incarnation of darkness, and yet a mere second generation Olympian dares to be this rude to you.
Hmph!" Asteria complained and stomped her foot right after Athena left.
But Nyx had not heard her, instead she'd rushed over to Adam and embraced him fiercely. She looked over every inch of his injured body anxiously.
"Are you okay? Were you hurt badly? Please, never do that to me again. I don't know what I would have done if. . ."
In turn Adam clasped her fingers warmly, as if to tell her it was all okay and that she could put her worries at ease.
"What was that thing you did against the Nemean lion? How did you get it to yield to you?" Nyx finally asked a while after she'd calmed down.
"It is a power only I can use. I can compel an unprotected mind to do my bidding. But It doesn't work on your kind, and I wasn't sure it would work on a monster that strong. But I'm glad it did. . .I always wanted a cat."
"And by "my kind" you mean gods?" Nyx asked curiously.
"Yes."
"So you are not a god?"
"No, I am not."
"But you are not mortal either, are you?"
"No." Adam smiled faintly.
The countless trials and evolutions his body had gone through in the future made him far more than mortal.
He was about to speak again when he drew in an especially raspy breath.
Nyx was reminded of how severe his injuries were and said to Asteria. "Settle him in a recovery room and have your star spirits attend to him."
She watched as Asteria gently took him up into her arms.
Just before Asteria and Adam disappeared into starlight, she added. "When you're done. Return to me. We shall fortify this domain, and if we fail, then we shall join in its doom!"
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In the recovery room, Adam's injuries had stabilized after half an hour. The remaining time saw his wounds heal at a visible pace.
In two hours time, the color returned to his face, and his breathing became even and smooth.
After a while he spoke within the darkness.
"Lena, please show me my Status screen."
Lena immediately obliged and relayed his status screen into his mind.
Name: Adam
Titles: 'Consort of Nyx' 'Lord of Asteria' 'Master of the Horae' 'Obsession of Eris' 'Beloved of Helen' 'Nemesis of Echidna'
Power level: 'Superhuman'
Race: Artificial god
Physique: Artificial god body (Fully awakened)
Abilities: Superhuman strength, speed, and agility. Divine charm. Telapathy. Pyschic compulsion. Euphoric touch.
Riorta Nanites Cleanesed: 100% (Full physiological recovery.)
God Cell turnover: 11.8%
"Already at almost twelve percent?" Adam said with a frown.
Then he glanced at his new 'Nemesis of Echidna' title and sighed thoughtfully.
"My lord, do you believe it was wise to reveal so much to the goddess Nyx?" Lena abruptly asked, interrupting his current train of thought.
His lips curled into a shallow smile. "As always, Lena, you fixate on the wrong things. We are indeed in grave danger, but this danger will not come from Nyx."
"You mean?"
"Did you not think Athena's last words odd?"
Lena was silent.
"In the first place, what was the point of the challenge she proposed?"
Lena was silent still.
"If she truly wanted to destroy us, she would have released Perces from his bonds immediately, and watched as he wrought destruction through the realm.
But she dragged him to Nyx's throneroom as if to warn us of the imminent threat and then proposed a pointless challenge.
I believe . . .she was searching for a reason not to release him immediately.
As for the challenge, she simply improvised that after she saw me."
"But how could she have known you would triumph over Echidna's brood?"
"She is the goddess of strategic warfare, and most importantly, of mind and wisdom! I refuse to believe that she was unable to see through my capabilities!
That would also explain why I felt her gaze linger on me ever so slightly after she threw the challenge."
"But then what reason does she have to do all of this?"
"She obviously does not wish for Perses to be released, but she is unable to openly defy her father Zeus."
"But if that's the case, shouldn't it be a simple matter to reapply his bonds and toss him back into his prison?
Down here she's beyond her father's sight."
"No." Adam said gravely as he replayed Athena's words within his mind. "destiny arrives all the same." She had said.
"Because it is extremely unlikely that before she'd arrived someone destroyed the initial layer of his chains at Zeus behest.
And once that layer was destroyed the rest of his bindings would gradually weaken, whether she wanted them to or not."
Destiny arrives all the same.
She was saying. "It will happen regardless. . ."
"Nyx probably sensed something amiss, which is why she is not here."
"So this place is doomed, my lord?"
"I'm afraid so, Lena." Adam sighed.
"But then why are we still here?"
"Because, my dear Lena, our new goddess friend seems to be as bad at accounting for variables as you are . . ."
"I don't follow, my lord."
"Give it a second." Adam sighed.
"My lord. My sensors detect!-" The next moment, Lena's alarmed voiced rang out within his mind.
But he paid her no heed as he spoke alone in the darkness.
"Athena should have sensed it. . .
And indeed she would have known if she saw the hatred on your face as I did.
After all. . . how could a mother forgive one who turned her own child against her.
Isn't that right, Echidna?"
True to his words, the dim light of the recovery room illuminated Echidna's countenance.
Her beautiful face was warped and distorted by hatred until it looked truly monstrous. And her hate filled gaze. . .was fixed on Adam!
A feral snarl ripped from between her lips as she crouched menacingly. She would waste no time in attacking, Adam saw it in her eyes.
"Lena?"
"My lord?"
Echidna tensed, about to pounce.
"Create a time dilation field between us. It needs to last only a second."
"Affirmative"
Echidna lunged for his throat.
But as her clawed hand approached his neck it seemed to meet resistance from a thin sheet of elastic material.
Time rapidly slowed down in her perception as her eyes widened and the sequence of jer ripping out Adam's windpipe did not happen as she intended.
Instead Adam disappeared and reappeared behind like a ghost, closed is arms around her waist and defiled her with his touch as her fingers swam all over her moonlight blue skin and set her body ablaze with a strange titillating sensation.
The flow of time returned to normal the next second, but this time, Echidna struggled to stand an ended up falling on her knees. Sweat rolled of her skin and she shuddered as she tried to resist the rising lust in her body. But her efforts yield no fruit. Her skin was flushed, and her groin ached with desperate need as fluids pooled under her robe.
"Sha...me...less...!"
The word barely made it out her mouth.
Adam grinned then sneakily stretched his right hand in through her lower garments and straight into her pussy.
"Aaah!"
Echidna moaned loudly. The desires she'd been fighting to suppress erupted all at once.
Her eyes rolled back and she squirted like a fountain, drenching her inner thighs as she fell onto her back with a euphoric scream.
But Adam wasn't done with her.
No, not by a Longshot.
Now that he was in such close close proximity with her, he could fully appreciate the beauty of her features. And they were indeed beautiful.
The features of her face: her plump, soft lips, her delicate eyelashes and sculpted nose, were all perfect.
She also had large shapely breasts and plump thighs, and a thick perky butt. The sensaul charm of her body made Adam forget all about her stranger features.
Seeing Adam's face so close to her, mixture of fear, hatred, and intense lust appeared in her gaze. But then she felt his engorged cock prodding the entrance of her pussy through his robes and her lust begun devouring all her other emotions.