Chapter 412 – Finally Picking

"Baby," Mommy says. "We have things to do."

"Oh, right," I say. I wasn't kissing Eterna, or holding her soft breasts in my hands, or anything like that. I remembered I have things to do today, and I need to pick my classes!

"Eterna," Mommy says. "How about you join us today and get married with everyone. I think we would all love to have you around if you get dressed. We have some kids with our group."

"The second worst part about this body," Eterna says. "Later."

"Yes, later," I say. "Sorry if it turns into more than one kid."

"Just don't make me stay like this for too much longer," Eterna says. She gives my nose a quick kiss and lets go of me. Then she turns around, and I get a very nice look at her ass. Shimmer has a lot of extra features that the real phoenix is showing now. "I like my normal body."

"That's it?" I ask. "I raped you, and you just asked to have more sex with me."

"Yes," Eterna says, walking over to Mommy. "You've promised to treat me well. I'm just mad that I'm being punished for coming to your defense. I just wanted a child from you, but I can't truly say I wouldn't have made you my mate. I did want that, and things happen during sex. So I can't be too mad that you took the chance to protect yourself from me. Treat me well, give me some kids, and treat Shimmer better, and I won't be angry about my situation. But I'm not going to be your slave or anything either."

"I wasn't going to make you my slave," I say. "But I'll have to work on Shimmer."

"Good," Eterna says, bending over before Mommy. Couldn't I go for a quick round? She's doing this on purpose! "So this is Mommy. You really did mate her. I don't blame you. She's really cute with that belly. Well, you said we have things to do." She stands up and does a little spin, and a red dress forms around her. Then she stops turning, with her hands on her hips and a small smile on her face. "Where to?"

"First, we need to get the other woman I'm about to marry," I say. "Then to the castle or Love's temple. And I really do need to find time to handle my new classes."

"First name basis with the Goddesses," Eterna says. "You're really on the path to be a true dragon. Well, time to go gather them. And you can work on the classes thing."

"Zarzi," Cisu says. "Will you be okay by yourself? The two of us should be enough for the Goddess of Love to marry our families together."

"I can stay with her," Mommy says. "Alzi, keep your third body here with her as well."

"Yes," I say. "That's a good idea. Nanoka can come with us or stay behind."

"I thought that was who she was," Eterna says. "Mother has grumbled about Nanoka a lot. You liked to teleport around too much for her liking, or something. She always worried too much about the other realms. But if I listened to her, I wouldn't have a baby in me right now."

"I did my best not to think of you all," Nanoka says. "I would've been dead if you all ever wanted to kill me, so there was no need to worry about something I couldn't control. It made me feel better if I didn't worry about the beings that could just grab me and kill me. We're both pregnant now, so I wouldn't mind some more rest, but it would be best to help you all get around."

"There is no need to force yourself," Kou says, coming in with a dress for me. "Sorry. I couldn't do much about a phoenix bursting through the halls."

"It's fine," I say. "I deserved it a bit."

Some Priestesses come in to help Cisu and Tharzi, and Kou moves quickly to dress me as well. Hopefully, the rest of the women are up already. We all should've been the last ones to get up today. I hope.

Kou leads most of us to the entrance. Eterna took my hand for the short trip, refusing to let go. My wives had better not start fighting to hold my hand. My babies will need to have my hand when they start growing up, and they can't be fighting my wives for that spot! But it is nice.

Most of the women are here. "Where is Victoria?" I ask. I don't need her around for this, but I should make sure she's fine.

"Watching over your Aunt, love," Elora says.

"Has anyone asked if she wants to go to the wedding?" I ask.

"I wasn't sure if that was what we were going to do," Elora says. "I can go ask her now."

"No," Kou says. "I'll ask. There is no need to have the Ladies of the house running around while a maid is here."

"Thank you," I say.

"Thank you," Elora says. "Alzi, I have found out our child's name. She is the Goddess of Breastfeeding. Milk or Lactation are other names for her for now. I don't know if a true Goddess of Milk will also come. But yes, thank you for blessing me with a child. I'm forever grateful for all you've done for me. I'm sorry for hurting you."

"It was to heal you," I say. "I'm thankful that you sacrificed enough to give birth to a Goddess. We aren't truly even, but we can pretend we are and start fresh with a marriage."

"Thank you," Elora says. "I will still work to make us even. Is Zarzi going to make it to the wedding?"

"Zarzi says she has to stay here with the eggs," I say.

"Yes, she will be keeping the lava hot and providing them with mana to finish their growth," Tharzi says. "So she won't be able to leave for a while. But her wives should be enough for the wedding. We can come back whenever it starts getting too late. I know you also need to handle things in other realms."

"My second body can handle some of those things, and my third can handle Zarzi for now," I say. "I just can't forget about her."

"Three bodies," Shimmer says. "That's a lot."

"I will keep track of that," Kou says, coming back with the warrior. "This is everyone. The wedding should be done first. And then we can go to the castle. Have all the needed parties gathered here?"

"Yes," I say. "This completes our contract, Elora. Shimmer, the deal with your mother is complete. You have more than four kids in your womb. I think most of the deals I've made will be complete with this wedding."

"Then, this way," Tharzi says. "It'll take a bit to have us all walk there. I don't know if Nanoka knows where to teleport us, or maybe Eterna can take those that can't fly to the temple."

"No," Eterna says.

Can she really not fly? I'm sure she sees it as below her standing to fly others around; it could just be that. But she did mention something about flying. It'll be annoying if I take away her ability to fly every time I get her pregnant. But her pregnancy should be shorter than a year, unless she already knows about that, and it will still be a year. What would cause it to take such a long time?

"Then walking, it is," Tharzi says. "Sorry, we don't have many carriages; the terrain doesn't make it easy to drive them here."

"I can do it," Nanoka says. "Alzi, or Tharzi, or Cisu just need to show me where the temple is."

"I can do that," Cisu says. "Give us just a minute, and we'll get us there."

I'm glad I asked Nanoka to come. It would be a problem to have babies walking there with us. Should I ask Elora and Shimmer to leave the kids behind? Shimmer doesn't look too comfortable here. She is practically melting into Geta right now. But I guess being surrounded by her enemies with a royal dragon in her arms would do that.

It's kind of funny how that happened. "We can go outside," I say. "It would save us a few minutes." There's no need to fight them about the kids. They'll be fine.

Time to work through these options.

Life of the Ritual: You've continued to be the star of rituals. Help them grow bigger and stronger than ever before. Helping more and more.

Never Enough Hats: Your extra bodies are working hard to help everyone you love, but there never seems to be enough of them to go around. Continue to grow your reach and keep them all within your light.

Well, it seems they're putting the good ones first this time around.

War Healer: Continue to help those on the front lines stay strong and fight on. Heal the women who can kill scores in large groups yourself. Overwhelm the enemy.

Bringer of Life: Continue to bring about new life as you save the old...

Nope, tired of breeding classes. Nice try hiding that, wrapping it up in that pretty wording.

Sex...

Come on, how is Sex still sneaking in these classes? I guess kicking her out completely is asking for too much.

Sage of the Healers: The women would come into your space screaming, on the edge of death, and you worked through it. You worked through your past and did what needed to be done. Continue on the path of working in the hardest environment, working to be the best healer you can be.

I don't really think I'm anywhere near ready to be called a Sage of Healers or something, but hey, I'll take it. It looks like I may have to choose between some classes this time around.

Family Empress: Your family is large and crosses many boundaries: nationality, Class, and even feelings. Control your house, and steer it to the world.

Divine Mother: Nobody has brought this much life into the world before. Even the dragons haven't been this blessed. Help the kids as they grow, showing them the right path to help the world.

A lot better than I thought, based on the name. Almost makes me want to go back and see what the other two said.

Sex...

Well, that is that. I have enough classes that I like. There's no need to worry about the stupid ones. Do I focus on kids, wives, or being a healer? A mix?

The hat one is going to happen. The bodies are too nice to pass up. I hope there are no more wars, so Sage Healer would be better. Then ritual, or wives, or kids? Ritual. I have more things that are more important there. I don't care that much about my wives. But then there's my kids. So, healer, kids, or rituals. I can only have two.

Kids have to be from picking the Divine Mother. Divine can't be bad either. There has to be something to that word.

So, healer, or the ritual? I'm doing well enough with healing. I shouldn't have anything massive coming up, so I shouldn't need my sex Skills.

So, Life of the Ritual, Never Enough Hats, and Divine Mother. I'm finally done, and Geta walks right in with Nanoka.

"There are a lot of people to move," Geta says. "Can you really handle this?"

"Yes," Nanoka says. "Worst case, I just make two trips. It's not like teleporting takes a lot of time."

"When did that happen?" Geta says.

"You should explain things better," Nanoka sighs. "The Goddess of Dragons let my Goddess visit me, or something. So, last night she made me a Champion. Now, is there anything else, or can we go?"

I didn't even think about that. I really should've visited the Goddess of the Phoenixes and asked her for some things. Dragon and Kitsune really helped me out during this war. And everything worked out, I guess. But I could've gotten more out of some of these Goddesses. I really hate that it was just me who could negotiate with them. Sarania would've been helpful.

"Alzi?"

"Yes."

A much less frightening temple appears before us. It's time to see how mad Love gets about me remarrying Elora.

Inside are a few Priestesses, staring at me, but they wait until all my wives are inside to speak.

"Well," one says. "Need something?"

"You know why I'm here," I say. "I don't think I've ever surprised a Priestess before."

"You have surprised us a few times," she says. "You know what is going to happen, right?"

"Why make things easy for me?" I grumble. "Just set it up. Nobody's being forced into it this time around. She should be happy this is happening."

"I suppose," the Priestess says. "This way. You and your wives are on the right. Put the rest on the left side, unless you want a true ceremony."

"I'm good," I say. "I can do that when I get all my wives together later, or something."

"Our Goddess would like that," the Priestess says.

It takes a bit to get everyone situated. Eterna wasn't happy that she had to let go of my hand, which was the main slowdown, besides who should be standing in the front. Eterna obviously took the spot, but Shimmer put up a surprisingly good fight for it. Elora almost snuck in during the fight, but holding a baby makes it hard to fight.

"I'll make this quick," the Priestess says. "I hope love actually finds this family this time around. Do you all love one another and promise to work together in your marriage?"

Of course, I don't get to answer the question yet. Someone else doesn't want to make this quick. But at least I'm not in some courtroom for this meeting. It's a small office or something, with Love flaunting her tits behind a desk.

"All that fighting, just to marry her again. I told you it could work out. But no, you just had to make a scene and get what you wanted."

"Yes," I say. "I'm now ready to marry her and the others. If you had actually conducted your ceremonies correctly, you wouldn't have had to give me the divorce. Instead, it would've just been one marriage to Elora. One where I'd be happy to marry her, like this one."

"Good luck," Love says."I may come by to talk more later," I say. "We can see if you can give birth to Marriage or something. As it stands, you should work with Contract to handle Marriages together."

"I'll think about it," Love says. "Go be happy. And try to love all your wives."

"I'll think about it," I say.

"Yes," I hear from across from me.

"Yes," I say. So many names get added to my two lists. I wonder how much easier it is to use mana now for all of my sexual partners. The list increased by more than just my wives. A number of maids have been added as well.

"What kind of fucking Skills do you have?!" Eterna asks. I guess mates didn't count for the Skill yet.

"A bunch of stupid ones," I say.