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Being able to travel unmolested to and from Rivira was an utter game changer in terms of dungeon exploration and more easily acquiring the valuable materials that were so much more common in the water and jungle floors of the dungeon. But Jake of the newly formed Seshat Familia didn't seem to care one whit about how valuable such a service was to Orario... But as Riveria looked down at the key in her hands and she knew all too well how every single rock that Jake placed down had the equivalent of a Durandal enchantment. She knew that somehow breaking into the tunnel would be a fool's errand.

"Soooo teleportation... Can we buy that from him?" Tiona asked blankly at the sight where Jake Bariss and Bell Cranel literally just said screw the tunnel they just built and teleported probably back to the surface.

"No! Teleportation is supposed to be something only within the domain of the gods and that's when they have their Arcanum." Riveria all but snarled as she felt like a child being shown countless magical and technological wonders that made absolutely no sense as they simply should not work without divinity forcing them to do so.

"He teleported... No footprints, no wind from them moving under illusions, they teleported Riveria." Ais reported blandly making the elvish princess's eyes twitch at Ais's knowingly made points to distress her.

"Fine he teleported but that is ridiculous... No, he is just ridiculous!" Riveria all but yelled having reached her breaking point for the nonsense Jake kept pulling out of nowhere. Sure, monsters that give drops to everyone that participates is one thing but the only off thing about it was how the monster he summoned would drop stuff for everyone. That bugged Riveria as it was too convenient.

But teleportation to and from the Dungeon? Wouldn't that make the countless years she and other adventurers put into the dungeon and even losing their lives to map out the dungeon and pushing onto lower floors be wasted? What if Jake could teleport from the surface all the way down to the fiftieth floor and skip the weeks of travel it would take others to make the journey?

It was demoralizing to Riveria honestly.

"Uh Riveria I noticed the throwing knives he loaned me don't break either Hehe." Tione added making Riveria just roll her eyes as she realized the other girls were just trying to get a rise out of her.

"Yes yes every damned rock the human touches become indestructible. Are you really so surprised his knives also don't have such an effect?" Riveria pressed making Tione pout at not getting Riveria to react.

"Anyway, we should test how long it takes to make the trip from here on Rivira back up to the surface via the tunnel and whether we even need to buy those carts from Jake as I wouldn't be surprised if those carts just happen to need some kind of fuel or something only, he sells." Riveria spoke as she still carefully tied a silken string through a hole in the large golden key and wore it as a necklace and tucked it under her dress to nestle between her bosom that way she couldn't lose or have the key stolen somehow.

"Ah I wanted the key." Ais muttered earning a slight smile from Riveria as she led the girls away from the field in which they fought the King Slime boss and towards the tunnel they helped create.

"We need to meet up with Jake and give the tunnel a super cool name though!" Tiona said exuberantly as although the tunnel was to be fair rather dull with its lightly toned stone walls, but that didn't at all diminish its inherent value.

"Dungeon Shortcut 1?" Ais surprisingly volunteered but everyone grimaced at the thought.

"It was made possible due to Jake's abilities so leaving the name up to him is for the best... Now let's go." Riveria spoke trying to salvage Ais's feelings at having a terrible naming sense but Ais's remark about it only being the first such shortcut stuck to Riveria.

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Not even an hour later the Loki executives reached the top of the tunnel and standing in front of the small house was a comparatively large party of adventurers from several different Familia's but more pressing was the smugly smiling form of someone who most certainly shouldn't have been in the dungeon at all.

"Lord Hermes, what is the meaning of this, and why are you all waiting here." Riveria spoke with her staff held in front of herself as even if she doubted that the Hermes Familia and what looked to be members of the Ganesha Familia would just attack her for no reason, but the dungeon was a lawless place with no consequences for what happened within it should it be kept secret.

"Woah woah woah little Riveria I am but a humble traveling god who learned of big juicy news and Ouranos himself sent me down to investigate... Because if it wasn't for the big man himself lulling the very angry dungeon back asleep you guys would have had to deal with a monster party of Goliaths down in Rivira when Jake broke through the floor Haha!" Hermes burst into laughter seeing the expressions of the Loki Familia tighten at the thought.

"Haa... You children don't understand how terrible the dungeon used to be when it used to be a gaping maw with goliaths and thousands of monsters from all the floors breaking through to the surface daily. You guys only deal with a goliath that spawns once every two or three weeks... Tsk tsk." Hermes chided the Loki Familia, but his trap shut when Ais spoke.

"Why are you down here with your Familia being so weak in comparison to Freya's adventurer's if the dungeon was possibly going to revolt?" Ais pointed out making Hermes's face twitch as his comparatively weak Familia was his weak point.

"Hahaha Ais don't be so mean... Anyway, the Ouranos trusts me to report on what was happening down here and I see things a bit differently from you mortals you know?" Hermes tried to excuse himself, but his easy-going appearance disappeared as Riveria locked the door to the tunnel behind her.

"Oi don't lock the door behind you Riveria! I need to see if the tunnel is safe and report to the guild about it and let them decide on the fees to use it, will be!" Hermes all but moaned childishly but Riveria only smiled a saccharine smile to the troublesome god that loved to throw himself into all the situations he could.

"Ah I apologize but the tunnel is made by Jake Barris, and he expressly gave the key to the Loki Familia thus if you want the rights to use Loki property you should negotiate with my goddess or better yet have Jake give you another key." Riveria spoke as Tione and Tiona flanked her as they stepped forward away from the door to the tunnel.

Left unsaid was how Loki was going to skin him alive if he wanted the key.

"Riveriaaaa! You have no idea how hard it is to find the brat! It's not like I can knock on lava to get his attention. He is always hiding or just disappearing!" Hermes whined but Riveria steadfastly ignored the troublesome god as she noticed that Asfi his captain and minder wasn't here and thus the god was toothless as it were. With only a couple level three's guarding him with mostly level twos filling the crowd of Ganesha and Hermes adventures there wasn't anything Hermes could force.

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Meanwhile, whereas Ouranos had a more first-person view within the dungeon and as to what Jake had been doing. So did Freya in her apartment within the massive Tower of Babel as she had a magical mirror that could view upon that which she desired to see even within the dungeon itself.

"Heath my dear." Freya spoke up and the woman kneeling beside her seat lifted her head as Freya switched the legs that were folded over the other as she continued to watch the Loki Familia exit the dungeon.

Heath Velvet the second-best magical healer in Orario had long red hair done in two twin tails but thanks to her being moved to care for Freya directly as Freya needed Ottar watching her jealous Familia members in case of another Allen incident, Heath no longer had tired bags under her eyes due to constantly overworking herself due to having to constantly heal the Freya Familia members that push themselves almost to death in fighting one another in the pits that were the highlight of the Freya Familia home of Folkvanger.

So having a cute red-haired beauty in a nurse outfit had definitely lit up the room more than Ottar's staggering weighted presence would.

"Do you think I should take steps to push Jake and Bell ever further? Or do you think the shenanigans Jake is leading them into is good enough?" Freya asked wryly as she had little clue at the moment what Jake could and couldn't do. So let alone craft some kind of challenge that could push Bell and Jake's soul to burn ever brighter to rise to her challenge she had no idea if whatever she pushed the two into if Jake would just deny it and teleport back home.

Back home into his home surrounded by lava and an indestructible impregnable structure that not even the best thieves in the world wanting to steal his magical weapons and goods could find a single-entry point.

"My lady from the information you have graced me... No, there is little the Freya Familia can push towards them." Heath respectfully spoke before she continued. "Lady Freya, Jake is capable of fleeing any battle that will push them to the brink of death that you seek to push them too into in search of pulling out their potential. But more than what we can push them into, you should pay mind to Apollo, Ishtar and other gods that cannot restrain their greed and attempt to force Jake under their heel." Heath reminded Freya.

Freya's closed relaxed eyes snapped open with a purple light filling them as she gazed down on Orario as her divinity roiled in disgust the thought of filth like Ishtar and Apollo squashing Jake's talent and ambitions that have already changed Orario in its entirety in but a day with the tunnel he built.

Sure, the bosses he could summon could one day bring Orario's adventures to greater heights as they more easily level up, but the tunnel was an instant game changer in how the dungeon was to be treated and who is to say that another system of tunnels couldn't be dug all the way down to per say the late forty floor's where Udeas and his skeleton ilk haunted.

"Hmm, that is true my darling Heath." She cooed to her healer and the mortal blushed at Freya's charm filled mind addling gaze as her mind all but melted under Freya's affection. "Haa... Don't break on me Heath." Freya tittered sighing as she looked away from the red-haired girl who shuddered and looked to her with total worship.

Freya mentally sighed and bemoaned how Ottar wasn't here as his will was that of diamond and even if Freya actually directed her charm at him, he would remain as mentally fit as ever which is much more than even most gods and goddesses could claim.

"Heath. You need to clear out your mind for a couple days... Go watch over Jake personally. I don't care how personally. Go up and speak to him, follow him like a shadow or something in between it doesn't matter. But keep Ishtar's broken toys from him and if you see Phryne pop the signal and Ottar and the others will come deal with her." Freya spoke and put emphasis on popping the signal as although Heath could deal with some Amazon level threes with her level four abilities, but she wasn't a real fighter as a healer and thus would need to retreat in the fact of Ishtar's pet abomination of a woman.

"With how Jake teleports around my lady if I to actually pay attention to him I will need him to willingly allow me to follow... So how do I get him to allow me to do so, after he knows of Ottar and Allen's fight?" Heath respectfully asked as she stared at Freya's bare leg with a thirst that disappointed Freya as she hoped the girl would have a stronger will but only watching over her for a couple days had driven her a tipping point.

"As I said previously... Do what you will. Jake's kaleidoscope of a soul is just as interesting as Bell's pure soul but hers... Well, the husband of Freya cannot be a woman, Haha." Freya weakly laughed with some true sadness as she had her mirror swivel to Seshat's home and looked within to see Jake, Bell, Hestia, and Seshat all sharing dinner together, but it was plain to all that Bell w

as looking up to Jake if not other feelings coming to the fore for her savior.

Teleporting into our bedroom as per usual with my tag along's, via teleportation they didn't get their senses dulled with the teleportation, so they were dizzy and wobbly to say the least so Bell with a loud clanking noise headbutted her circlet covered forehead against my chest plate making her groan in surprise but thankfully not pain.

"Lady Seshat said your teleports would make you think you had been held upside down and spun in a circle for several minutes, but I didn't think it would be this bad." Bell muttered as she held onto her head in order to keep herself from falling over.

"Oh, Jake and Bell! Welcome back!" I heard Hestia yell out and from the downstairs section of the shop Hestia powerwalked through the building and I saw how nicely dressed up she was, and I recalled how we had planned to go on a double date or something of the sort.

Hestia was wearing a similar dress to the one she would wear during more fancy meetings like at a Denatus or something.

Hestia then helped Bell take off her armor by removing the clasps on the side of the chest plate and removed the leggings before glomping the surprised white-haired girl who cried out at how tightly Hestia was hugging her.

"Hestia! I can't breathe and they are pushing against one another!" Bell cried out with embarrassment clear in her voice as Hestia was all but bear hugging the poor girl and both of their chests were being pushed against one another as Hestia did her best to fuse with Bell's form.

"Wow Hestia is shooting for the stars isn't she." Seshat whispered to me as she came up behind me and I nodded seeing Seshat in a full dress instead of her more amazonian style of clothes that left little to the imagination.

"Hestia! Let go!" Bell cried.

"Bell hug me!" Hestia cried out equally with as much 'passion'

"Or she just wants a bite of her rabbit." I said jokingly and both girls blushed at my words with Hestia whirling on me as Bell fled her goddess's hands and hid behind me and Seshat.

"My love for Bell is pure and without mortal follies!" Hestia announced trying to sound imperious, but I cut her down at the knees as it were.

"Yeah no, all the greek gods are deviants and perverts... I know what Poseidon and Zues got up to in their animal forms." I said as dry as a desert and Hestia just pointed at me in dumbfounded silence as she tried to find a rebuttal.

"I am not like them! And most definitely not like Poseidon or Zues!" Hestia screeched but I only had two words for her.

"Seahorse. Killergoose." I said drily as I brought up the oh so lovely monster creatures that the two idiotic gods brought about when they decided that in their infinite wisdom, they could combine spirits and monsters to create avatars on Genkai. That they could control from the upper realm and still have some of their power without using their arcanum and possibly destroying Genkai.

Yeah, all it did was create a couple new monster breeds that still haunt the surface world. As all monsters were perfectly capable of breeding to maintain their numbers with the only caveat being that surface monsters were a good deal weaker than their dungeon counterparts due to not having a monster stone fueling them with magic from the dungeon.

"But I am not a deviant, am I Bell?" Hestia asked Bell after she had absolutely no response and could only turn to her only adventurer. The only person who believed that she could have a Familia and wanted to join her.

"I mean... You did sneak into my bed all the time and even now you keep trying to touch my uhm... Boobs." Bell said blushing at the end as she held her arms in front of her body glove clad chest to block off the rooms gazes as she brought them up.

Hestia just slouched over so I went over and patted her back as I walked past her towards the room's bathroom. "Alright I am going to get a shower so I can put on some nicer clothes. Bell you can use Seshat's bathroom or something." I called out but Seshat loudly coughed and as I looked back, I saw her holding her arms up in an X in front of her chest.

"Nope, nadda, not happening! My bathroom is mine remember Jake! No one and nothing gets to use my bathroom regardless." Seshat said putting her foot down and it was honestly a surprise as other than discussing my Falna and my more extreme actions she was rarely so serious.

"Ah its ok... I can just wait for Jake to finish?" Bell said tilting her head to the side and hearing such an easy solution I went into the bathroom and with a loud snapping noise I closed the door behind me as I went about discarding my armor into my inventory.

As I enjoyed my shower and just relished the hot water cascading down my back I couldn't help but sigh as I just unwound from all the mining and building I did today to say nothing of the stress of having squads of enhanced abberant minotaur's trying to kill us. Honestly, I was surprised Bell didn't freeze up or have a panic attack at the sight of those minotaur's that matched the one that all but killed her previously.

My literal shower thoughts were cut off in a couple minutes as the door to the bathroom snapped open and through the foggy glass that separated my nude from... Yeah, it seems Bell got shoved into here as I could hear both Seshat and Hestia giggling as Bell began blubblering to be let out but was too scared to break down the door as the two goddesses seemingly kept it closed.

"Bell just get Jake out of the shower, he is taking too long plus you need your own!" Hestia vindictively spoke through the door, and I couldn't help but hear that 'spiteful greek' in her.

"Bell just sit on the toilet and close your eyes or something until I am done. No need to freak out." I said rolling my eyes at how the goddesses were bullying Bell.

"Goddess Hestia asked me to help you get clean and out of the shower and I know people of the same gender aren't supposed to share a bath or shower but... Should I wash your back or something!" She all but forced out making me deadpan as I stared at the tiled bathroom walls as I counted to ten in my head in order to shut down the horny.

"Bell, I can tell you are not at all comfortable with doing that, I can tell the goddesses to stop being weird with you if you want." I offered sighing as I rinsed some soap out of my hair.

But my only answer through the loud sounds of the water hitting my body and clapping as it hit the floor was some soft thumping that I ignored for a minute before I finally got all the soap out of my hair so I could actually open my eyes without getting soap in them. And let me tell you fantasy soap wasn't tear free and had some natural harsh stuffs that made it feel like I was getting winter fresh mint bar soap in your eye's kind of pain.

"I got your back Jake... From the dungeon and even here I have your back, Jake." At that I felt a soft small hand against my back making me freeze in shock as Bell somehow opened the shower slide without me realizing as I was focusing on getting the soap out of my hair.

"Fine just my back then." I said rolling my eyes as I knew turning around was only going to lead Bell into freaking out at me 'looking' at her in a towel or if she was even naked or something.

Sure, this world didn't follow to many anime or even hentai tropes but Bell being a good-natured spaz was hard wired into her very being. I knew damn well that Bell didn't join me in the shower for perverted reasons, so I didn't get my hopes for such a thing. She just had some weird ideas about skin ship, which probably came from this world's melting pot of degenerate gods pushing weird cultural stuff onto the mortals.

Bell was only here to be nice and wash my back... Well, that's after the two goddesses decided to bully her and push her into here.

One of the three divine treasures that the divines brought down to the mortal world was literally bikini's... Not some cure all medicine or even technology from more advanced worlds. Nope it was bikinis and other weird crap.

So, I just let Bell scrub down my back only saying softly if she needed more strength or less in certain areas as it turned into a bit of a quick massage before Bell's arm retreated from my back.

"Would you like me to get your back as well?" I offered and after a moment I heard some rustling before Bell responded.

"Yes... I guess, just be gentle my skin is sensitive." She spoke and I finally looked behind me and saw that Bell was wearing a towel around her bottom and using her arms to cover up her chest but even as my eyes roved her body for an instant before rising to her face Bell only had a light blush as I wasn't acting weird on her or anything.

Bell then squeezed past me and into the hot water and sighed in comfort as the hot water drenched her long hair down onto her chest and back.

She wasn't lying when she said her skin was soft though. Even as I used a different soap covered washcloth to wash her back, I couldn't find any scars divots or any major imperfections in her skin other than the tiny pores that kept her from looking like a mannequin or something if she didn't look to have them.

"Alright Bell I got your back; I am going to get out so you can have some privacy to do the rest." I spoke as I pulled my hand from Bell's back, and I didn't hear a reply from the shy girl as I got out of the shower dried off and just used my inventory to equip the clothes I was going to wear before leaving the shower.

When I went to push open the door to the outside, I only got a couple inch's out before something hit the door and slammed it back closed in my face...

"Girls I am going to give you one chance. Move from the door, or either I am going to force you out of the way, or I am going to teleport behind you and remove you. Now which is it going to be ladies?" I asked the childishly acting goddesses who were obviously holding the damn door closed.

There was only a couple moments of silence before the door swung open showing the pouting faces of Hestia and Seshat who grabbed me by my arms and dragged me out into the bedroom.

Hestia and Seshat tried to push me onto one of the nearby beds but I wasn't having it anymore. This prank or weird nonsense had gone on long enough and I wasn't going to be bullied by the cat goddess I put a leash on in and pulled on during fun times making her yowl like some alley cat.

"Seshat enough!" I snapped sharply making the cat goddess stiffen under my harsh gaze and lower her gaze before I snapped my eyes to Hestia. "And you, what the hell are you doing putting Bell up to that? Don't think I am blind to how much you love her. So why in the hell are you pushing into a naked man's space?" I demanded as although Bell was a cinnamon roll. She was innocent and had no lustful intentions which is why I didn't bully her or anything.

Hestia's face flashed with shame, but she rallied her motivation and spoke despite wilting under my gaze. "Bell has a special skill, kind of like you." At her words I kind of freaked out and wondered if she got some kind of Terraria skill or something, but Hestia's next words made me almost exhale in relief. "It helps her and her chosen partner grow faster the stronger the feelings between her and the partner are on both sides... I want Bell to get stronger and it brings me no lack of pain pushing her into there. But seeing and feeling from Bell's perspective her life blood flowing out of her chest after that minotaur attack." Hestia shook her head with a soft smile.

"I much rather see her in someone else's arms then feel her soul travel to Tenkai and lose her probably forever, if I didn't just go back to Tenkai with her." Hestia said looking through me and towards the bathroom where Bell was cleaning up after our eight something hours in the dungeon.

While I was wondering if Bell even had Liaris Freese Hestia spoke up again. "Jake, I don't know you. I don't know if I even like you as a person, but I have to ask you as the person Bell trusts down to her very soul to help protect her. Help her grow to whatever level you can. As her goddess that's all I can ask of you." I couldn't help but snort at the thought and shake my head making Hestia frown but her face as well as Seshat froze as I spoke.

"Hestia whatever dreams Bell has an adventurer; I will go beyond it. I will summon true gods as bosses to slaughter in order to refine into materials. I will go so far beyond the Falna that Ouranos is going to one day look at me and decide he needs to make a whole new system as I have and already am breaking the game with how me and Bell can wholesale slaughter monsters above our level with our magic." I spoke almost arrogantly but my words rang as sturdy as a mountain as they were all truth in the end.

The trick was that the Falna was slated to give mages an easier time getting Execllia otherwise how in the world would Riveria have her stats other than magic comparative to other adventurers that didn't focus on a single stat, when all she typically did was stand far away chant a chuuni as hell poem and nuke a boss or army with powerful spell. Not even including how actions of our summons also gave us Excellia though I haven't given Bell one yet.

Hell, even now with how I have killed helped kill Terraria bosses and actually killed that Aberrant Minotaur I already had the high quality Excellia to level up. I just wanted to pad out the rest of my stats.

And when I leveled up and got all the Fargo's mods and the absolutely ridiculous accessories within? Yeah, I was confident in fighting even level threes when I had a full set of enchantments and other stuff from that mod.

"So, if anything look at me as the trouble magnet, but I will protect Bell as she is my family or something now. If she truly considers me her partner down to her very soul." I said brushing a hand through over my face as I tried to conclude this nonsense.

"Huh... I can kinda see how Seshat and Bell have fallen for you a bit." Hestia joked making me roll my eyes as I head patted Seshat and pulled her against me making her purr at my dominate affection.

"Yeah, well I haven't even gotten to see how Seshat's claim on me will interact with beastkin so I am kind of a bit scared to meet my guild advisor as she is a Christmas cake in search of a husband." I likewise joked back making Hestia giggle before she looked at me in interest.

"Ohoho you have that Rose Fannett girl who was the advisor for Ais Wallenstein? How's that going for you, and I have something to tell you." Hestia said and then deviously leaned in as her joking smile became evil. "Congratulations on getting claimed by a beastkin goddess you are going to be literally catnip to beastkin and probably even Amazons so Bell will still be mine Haha!" Hestia manically laughed but choked as the bathroom door opened.

"Ah Hestia I heard you laughing, so is everything fine now?" Bell asked as she walked out in a rather modest white dress that ended just above her knees and only had a small slit on the top to expose a bit of her cleavage.

"Everything thing is fine Bell, and you look great in the dress Seshat made for you!" Hestia evaded my gaze as she pranced over to Bell and looked her up and down and praising how Bell had so quickly taken to doing her hair up in a nice braid with her white hair.

"Jake, girls let's get going to dinner before I take my man to bed for the night." Seshat spoke as she took my hand in hers and softly pulled me out of the room as Hestia took Bell's arm into her own and more forcefully dragged her to match us as we left the building.

When it came done to it. We had absolutely no idea what good sit-down restaurants were here in Orario, I mean sure the Hostess was alright, but it was a Familia hang out for a reason not the place for a candle lit dinner.

Not only had I not really explored Orario due to how huge and dangerous it could be to wander the alleyway's and such, but for Bell and Hestia? Well, they had always been broke as hell, money wise to put simply. When you have to live off of primarily the leftover thrown out food from the food cart you worked at, that meant you were very much below the poverty line.

So, in the end we settled to going to this restaurant on the edge of the Entertainment District that was pretty upscale, and we all shared a circular booth in one of the corners of the restaurant.

The interior was softly lit up with pink and red shaded monster stone lights so there was a nice romantic atmosphere and all the servers were girls probably even from the Entertainment District that had a good running with customer service as they stuck the fine line in getting what we wanted without getting into our space and interfering with our date.

"Hmm, the place is nice. It's surprising that it doesn't smell like the entertainment district you know." Hestia wryly spoke as Bell naively tilted her head.

"What's wrong with the entertainment district? Its where the colosseum is, and the Ganesha Familia is always keeping it clean and what not?" Bell spoke and I wanted to facepalm as she didnt think of the flip side of things.

"Bell, she means the night side of the entertainment district when Ishtar is queen, and it becomes the Red-Light District where her amazons prowl on the hunt for unsuspecting prey for them to pounce upon and drag them into their parlors to suck them dry." I spoke completely truthfully as Bell in canon got 'dragged' into there without his consent and with Phryne taking him... Yeah after that monster got done with him, he likely would have been better off dead.

"Jeez Jake, you make it sound like they are vampires or something." Hestia joked but that got me thinking.

"I mean there are werewolves, is there or were their vampires?" I asked the two goddesses who shared a look before shrugging.

"Thats a good question, and I don't personally know as I frankly didn't spend too much time watching Genkai due to the amount of work I had in my Pantheon. But if there once were Vampire's in the sense that they needed to drink the blood of mortals in order to survive then it's perfectly possible they did exist at one point but died out when the mortal population's hit the point of extinction in certain areas." Seshat explained and I nodded in understanding as the era before the dungeon was sealed was a literal hellscape of a world.

"Nope never heard about actual vampires for me either but I know some people got some blood manipulation skills or spells after the Falna became more popular so maybe from their?" Hestia offered and I thanked for the info as I dug into my baked chicken and potatoes.

"So, Hestia perhaps you would like to work with Seshat or myself running our shop which sells magical artifacts?" I offered as I had noticed Hestia was getting a bit fidgety about staying in our tower without an official chores, duties or ways to provide for our dual Familia's as Bell had managed to convince her to quit working at the fried potato stand, she had been working at.

Granted even I hadn't really been running the shop either, Seshat had a good handle of it and only Freya and Loki's adventurers had been allowed into the tower to buy stuff from us so as to avoid nonsense like a Soma druggie trying to rob the shop while I was gone and Sir Fluffykins needing to kill the druggie as he typically spent his time guarding the shop.

Hestia's twin tails actually twitched and flew around in her excitement as she smiled and threw me and Seshat a thumbs up. "Alright you got it!"

"Yay Goddess got a new job!" Bell said excitedly clapping her hands making Hestia smugly grin and making me especially want to ask if getting a job from the people you been living with for a week was an actual accomplishment?

But instead of pulling at Hestia I just enjoyed the happy atmosphere as I held Seshat's hand beneath our table as she leaned against me and slowly ate her smoked fish with some vegetables.

"So, Jake, I had a bit of a personal question if you don't mind?" Bell started off and I looked to her with a raised eyebrow. "I see you're a pretty responsible person for the most part. But I was curious when you planned to like to start a family, or do you plan on being devoted in your relationship to your goddess?" Bell asked making me honestly hum in thought for a minute as I gathered my thoughts.

I mean I was back in my like seventeen/eighteen-year-old form so I obviously wasn't needing to go about rushing into starting a family. Though I wouldn't hate if I snagged a certain fox girl and made a wife out of her as Haruhime was best girl.

"Me and Seshat already discussed how she understood as a mortal I would need to have progeny as well as being a beastkin goddess she finds the thought of me creating a pack or similar attractive." I spoke bluntly as Seshat chuffed in amusement at Hestia's scandalized expression.

"But what about the love between you two Seshat!?" Hestia hissed.

Seshat languidly looked at Hestia with her golden slitted eyes as she bluntly responded with zero tact. "I love Jake, I love his dick, and I would love to hold his children whether they be from my womb or another's... So long as he stays away from Ishtar, I don't care what he does or who he takes, as I don't want to catch something even if I am immune to all mortal sicknesses." Seshat joked winking at Hestia meaningfully making the virgin goddess squawk in outrage as me and Bell chuckled.

Though now that I was sitting in a rather enclosed area and not just walking around Orario I noticed the Beastkin girls working here were giving me extra looks and making excuses to bend over so I could see down their shirts and see their unmarked shoulders as they came literally every time, I took a drink out of my sweet tea.

The sight made me curious how Anya and Chloe from the Hostess would react or even Rose my guild advisor were going to react. Especially with Rose who was woman in her later twenties who was getting desperate to settle down and get married. I was even scheduled to meet her tomorrow for my biweekly Guild Advisor tutoring as I was still the first member of my Familia and had thus, I was supposed to have no backing or real teachers.

Because most Familia's treated one another as enemies for whatever the hell reason... No seriously the dungeon was massive, and it wasn't like we were struggling to kill enough monsters to make ends meet. But it was perfectly natural for you to meet someone in the dungeon and kill them as it was lawless area where only strength mattered...

I was dragged out of my thoughts as once again one of the beastkin girls came over, this time this one was a very voluptuous blond with soft brown eyes cow beastkin with a motherly air similar to Demeter came over and bent over to pick up the plate with her large breasts hanging next my face as she spoke softly with a literal southern drawl that made me actually want to take her into the back. "Thank you sweety for cleaning the plate. Would like 'anything' at all for dessert? I make an absolutely to die for milk shake." She offered and Seshat reached forward and squeezed my dick not in warning to say 'No' but instead in a. 'Go get em tiger' method as she visibly pushed me towards the girl, so my face got pushed into her wide-open chest.

"Ah Beatrice was it? I am his goddess, and he adores milkshakes so please take him and get him a drink as he needs all the fluids for when he takes care of me tonight... Also make sure he gives you a drink as well" Seshat said with all the innuendo in the world as the blond cowgirl quaked as I stood up beside her and despite how voluptuous she was, she was still a mite short thing that didn't even hit five feet tall in comparison to my flat six-foot height.

"Yes, Sir and Lady Goddess." The cowgirl spoke and I noticed her eyes dilated as she stared up at me and then Seshat asked another question.

"Oh, and what Familia are you part of girl?" She asked nonchalantly and Beatrice just shook her head as she stared up at me.

"No Familia... The gods who wanted to recruit me only wanted to perv on me and the other Familia's didn't want to take me as I just want to make good food." Beatrice spoke with a bit more clarity to her eyes and then she blushed as she seemingly came back to her senses at the questioning.

"You still want to give Jake a custom 'milkshake' or you back to your senses girl?" Seshat teased her and the waitress hurriedly bowed and quietly asked for forgiveness as this was one of the best places for her to keep working to become an actual chef and honestly this was making me feel a bit bad as I thought she was just a thirsty woman out of the entertainment district trying to get some side action on a guy who was interesting.

"Bah its whatever, Jake is a good man so it's understandable you would attempt to project your desire. It's what mortals do after all." Seshat spoke wisely as waved off the cowgirl's apologies, but I had noticed she had been writing some kind of note for the last minute or two during this whole scene was playing out. "Here read this note, follow it after you are done working, and we can see what happens. Now skedaddle little morsel before I ask Jake to push you under the table Haha!" Seshat laughed showing off her cat like disregard for others as cowgirl took the note and made her getaway.

"Uhm Lady Seshat I don't know what was happening, but what was on that note you gave her?" Bell asked a couple minutes later as we finished off our food and I was leaving some money to pay all our food as well a nice tip for the waitress's that had taken such good care of our table.

Seshat smiled but it wasn't a loving, kind, or even a joking smile, it was the smile of a cat who ate the canary in the most literal sense of the term.

"Oh, I just gave a lost mortal some divine inspiration. If Jake can recruit Hestia to man our store so I can nap more often, than I can recruit a chef who can save us money on the packed meals that go into your dungeon meals." Seshat said proudly like she actually accomplished something...

I needed to spank my goddess again for being troublesome.