Chapter 431 – The Goddesses Know

*** Alzi ***

"Do you really need to visit the Goddess of Power, My Queen?" Kou asks. "I think the Goddess of Fertility, or of Dragons, or even the Goddess of Royals may be a better first option."

"No, but I want to," I say. "I did just mate her Champion and all of that. It would be nice to talk to her. She was kind of nice, and she was pregnant. Maybe she needs a bit of support or something. And I think I was supposed to meet her before meeting with Yzzorres."

"All the more reason to meet the Goddess of Royals before you're late to see her as well, My Queen."

"I'll think about it. Power helped me," I say. "I don't think Royal has done much for me. She may even have been part of the group causing my problems, or why nobody cared to help me out."

Power's new temple is quite small. Cute, even. It's missing the overly hard doors to open. I hope they keep following that for new temples, as the doors are just stupid and annoying. The powerful just push them open with mana, and the weak struggle to get in.

"Welcome back," the Priestess says.

"I haven't been in here before," I say. "But I guess I have been in one of these temples."

"You're the first to make it to both temples, and so close to both openings," the Priestess says. "I'm happy to count it."

"I suppose," I say. "Is your Goddess doing well?"

"I believe so," the Priestess says. "Sorry, we don't have a private room for you, Queen Alzi. I'll keep people from coming in."

"Don't worry about that," I say. "I'm sure this will take a few seconds with how these always seem to go."

"I hope the meeting goes well," the Priestess says. "My Goddess has been a bit strange recently. But you know about that."

"Maybe," I say. She would've said more if Power were truly mad about it. At least, I hope so. The mark isn't exactly burning me. Can they do that? Just sit down, Alzi, and see if she wants to talk to me.

"Bold to come to me after doing that to my Champion," Power says.

"She was rude," I say. "Sorry, I meant to come to you before I met with Yzzorres, and things went a little off the rails."

"Yes, I should've asked her to be nice," Power said. "You really have an unfair advantage now. Honestly, if you just ran around with Geta, you could've dealt with Nature's beasts easily, and then there would've been nothing else to be done. Of course, to do that, you would've needed to trust her. It was funny seeing you do the one thing that would make her unable to help you for a moment, though I'm sure Death has made you think Geta is a lot more limited than she really is. Maybe if Geta did all that killing, Nature and Justice would've decided they could send their angels and maybe even go down there themselves. A holy war in the lower realms again. Well, not really the lower realms, but a true holy war. The displays of power would be interesting if it didn't mean certain death for the ones I mildly care about down there."

"Really?" I ask. "I had all the safety I needed right next to me, and I just didn't trust in it enough?"

"Kind of," Power says. "Like I said, Justice and Nature may have sent out their angels if you relied on Geta too much. Geta is powerful, but numbers would overwhelm her, forcing a massive war. You may have lucked into the right decisions."

"I'll just believe they were waiting for a reason to do that," I say. "Sex did send an angel to me. It's a bit strange they didn't try that after Death did as well."

"They don't like to admit it, but the Goddesses don't really like Justice and Nature," Power says. "Nature abused her position as 'father' to keep enough of them in line for a while, but when Fertility started getting active, they lost what little support they had left. They'd pushed things to the limit already, so they needed something big to let them send down divine beings themselves. Death isn't really the one they were fighting, so it would've been hard to use that as an excuse. Sex was actively working against you, so that wouldn't have worked either. Fertility kept getting you pregnant, so you couldn't even learn to fight. You were hampered in a surprising number of ways."

"What fun," I say. She doesn't look pregnant. I wonder if she's had her kid already. "Well, things should be done now."

"Sure, sure," Power says. "Yes, I gave birth already."

"That's nice to hear," I say. "Is being a parent going well?"

"I think so," Power says.

Oh, this is stupid. But I move over to her. She doesn't stop me, just raising an eyebrow before I hug her. "I'm sure you're doing fine," I say. "I know very well how scary being a parent is. I have too many kids, and I'm worried if I'll even be able to be a parent to all the kids I'm having. You'll do well."

"Thank you, Alzi," Power says. "I'll see what I can do to help you with your kids."

"I do appreciate the bodies," I say. "It makes it a lot better, being able to be around for my kids and wives now. Thank you. Fertility is the dad, right?"

"Yes."

"I'll see if I can convince her to come around more," I say. "I know she likes to hide, but she should be here to help you. I'm not able to be there for Contract. If you have an idea about how to fix that, I'm happy to listen, but I would like the sisters to know each other while growing up. I know they do that kind of fast up here. Even in the lower realms, they grow up fast."

"Thank you," Power says. "I'm sure you'll find a way to be with all your kids. It would be nice if Fertility took a bit of responsibility for what she did to me. Don't worry about Yzzorres. She's already happily asleep, and you don't have to carry nine kids for her. Her obsession with all of that is a bit much. Just do what you want."

"I agreed to it," I say. "It won't be the worst thing to happen to me. Plus, I can always sneak some more into her as well."

"Yes, you could do that," Power says. "Thank you for the visit. I think Space and Fertility have things to discuss with you."

"Oh, great," I say. Do they know?

"Good luck," Power says just before I return to the lower realm.

"I hope things went well, Queen Alzi," the Priestess says.

"Yes," I say. "I think it went well after everything. It seems I have some Goddesses that want me to visit."

"Good luck."

"I need to start carrying her around with me," I say. "I'm sure she would love it." She would've been a better choice over Destruction. Ok, she wasn't that bad; she just gave us a bit of a scare. She's going to do much worse when she grows up.

"Space and Fertility, my Queen?" Kou asks.

"Who else?"

"Space first?"

"She's next door," I say. I wonder if Nakuma is still stuck inside.

...

She is. Some High Priestess is talking her ear off about something Nakuma clearly doesn't care about. I'm guessing Space is the only reason the Priestess is still alive right now. Kiyomi would probably be a better Champion, but I can control Nakuma better. Maybe I could impregnate Kiyomi into submission, but controlling Nakuma through Yuki is a much easier method.

"We have a room ready for you, Our Queen," a Priestess says, motioning down a hallway.

She leads me to something that looks more like a bedroom than a prayer room. A soft bed, a couch, a desk, a fireplace, and even a small wardrobe. Should I taunt Kou into getting into the bed with me?

"Enjoy," the Priestess says, bowing out.

"Please no, My Queen," Kou says immediately, going to the corner. "Take it out on your wife instead. I still have too much work to do to get pregnant now. Let me gather a few more tails before we think about kids."

"Ten," I tease. But that isn't a terrible idea, playing with my wife. I should enjoy her pregnant body this time around and thank her for all the help.

"That would be wonderful, Dear," Space says. She's naked, sitting on her bed, with me already in her lap. "But first, some of us know about your dealings with the Demoness. Be, oh fuck, Alzi. Dear. Let me talk."

"No," I say. "I'm going to enjoy my wife for a bit."

"I'm, oh shit, your fingers are dangerous. Oh, right there, you found it so, so fast. Yes. Be careful!"

I would rather not be. I'm basically biting her neck while one hand explores her lower lips and the other massages those perfect tits of hers. Our bellies are even rubbing up against each other. Should I give her another?

"Alzi, I- Oh, Alzi. We're going to... Oh fuck! No fair. Help- We help- SHIT!"

"Bend over," I say. "You bet your ass you're going to be helping. You're my wife."

"Promise to be careful, and let the ones you love be around for the ritual."

"I promise," I say. "Now, one orgasm isn't enough. I need to see if I can sneak another kid into you."

"Fertility is going to be so mad at me," Space says, but she relents. Her head falls into her pillow as that round ass of hers is raised up for me. I give it a test slap and then get right to baby-making.

...

"Did you?" Space asks.

"I think so," I say.

"Get to Fertility," Space says. "She needs help and a distraction if this is going to stick. We need to have more moments like this and for you to see our kid."

"I'll find the time," I say. "Try to get Fertility to join you sometimes. Two kids at once."

"You'll be better at convincing her than I. Goodbye, dear."

"You really don't take much time with the Goddess, My Queen," Kou says. "Normally, the Queens have to pray a bit before the Goddesses decide they want to speak to them. It is a lot easier and cheaper this way. Fertility, now?"

"Yes."

...

Luckily, all the temples are right next to each other, which makes it a lot faster to get to them all. But maybe Hearth is still stuck in some random house on the other end of town. I should go see that Priestess again. I'm sure she looks massive by now. Isda, as well.

Fertility takes me up the second I cross the threshold, right into her bedroom. Fertility and a dryad are in labor on the bed, and two other dryads are helping them through it. I did ask for the dryad, but why is Fertility giving birth already? She looks so big.

"Because you just have to kill them so soon," Fertility answers. "Death won't help, so I have to get ready to step in."

"Oh, sorry about that," I say. "Malralloz said she could handle it."

"Three," Fertility groans. "She can't handle three."

Oh, yeah, Nature could decide to come out anyway. I didn't think about that. Did Malralloz think someone would come to save her? Future, maybe?

"YEEEEES!" Fertility screams. A dryad catches the baby, and Fertility immediately moves to help the Dryad who's in labour. The new Goddess is quickly thrust into my arms, my dress disappearing so she can get my nipple.

"Revenge," the dryad forces out.

"Fitting," I say. "Thank you for doing all of this to help. I'm sure it hurts a lot. I didn't think Nature would dare to come out, but I guess it makes sense that she may want to."

"Dear, you have to push with the contractions," Fertility says. "Yes, like that. There you go. Just a few more. It looks like a Goddess. Nothing scary."

Wait. Did they not know what the dryads would give birth to?! Could they be Future's sisters? It'd be funny if they've been stuck in their wombs all this time, as long as the Goddesses didn't know about that. I'm sure they would kick up a stink if they ever found out that they'd been stuck in someone's womb for who knows how long.

"Good girl," Fertility says. "One big one, and she'll be free. Perfect. Trees. Goddess of Trees, dear. Well done. We were all worried over nothing. Well done, dear."

Fitting.

"Um, is there anything else, or do we just get to play with the kids now?" I ask. "Oh, I did promise Power I would tell you to visit her. She needs the support, and I think it would be good for the sisters to get to know each other. I think Space would also like to have some time with her Mother, and you could spend time with some of your grandchildren, too."

"I keep having people asking me to leave," Fertility says. "But I see your point. I'll try."

"Thanks," I say. "It means a lot to everyone. I understand how hard it is. I know I'm moving mainly because a bunch of Goddesses are making me do it. I feel the desire to hide away from the world, too. I really do."

"You're stronger than me," Fertility says. "I've got the power to do what you're doing, and I just don't."

"I did have it a bit easier than you."

"Still. But we just had two kids," Fertility says. "Happy times. We should bring up Contract so she can meet her sisters."