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Chapter 191 - For the Record

“BAYBEE!”

I sigh as I watch Livvie roll around on the ground with the as-of-yet unnamed creature… thing that is apparently my sort-of offspring while it rapidly cycles between snarling, giggling, and looking wildly around as it half-crawls, half-rolls around my throne room with her.

Or my old throne room, anyway. For some reason I distinctly thought that gazing out on the void...

Chapter 190 - For the Record

She’s crying again.

I understand why… but…

Despite everything we’ve been through, that she’s been through, this is the hardest I’ve ever seen her cry.

And I don’t know how to comfort her.

I already tried resurrecting Pearl, in the same way I reconstructed Omorth…

When I got to the point of restoring her Akashic Self though, the entire ...

Chapter 189 - For the Record

I… can’t put this off any longer.

Pips…

She’s getting worse. For a while after I returned, yes, she followed me like a puppy… but…

It’s that dead look in her eyes, and that forced smile…

I don’t know what to do about it. About her.

Maybe…

No.

I can’t.

I can’t do that to her. My oldest, dearest friend…

But I miss her...

Chapter 188 - For the Record

Hyperion.

Her new name is Hyperion.

Unsurprisingly, I had no trouble at all getting Izzy or Livvie to agree to help, since I still consider my former hero as part of my family. She’s been a good little sister.

Although her grim dedication to the thought of having to kill me to protect… I don’t know what, was both respectable and depressing.

Another strange emotion,...

Chapter 187 - For the Record

“I’ll have to think about it. You’ve done a lot of really bad stuff…”

I take a sip of my tea… that same nostalgic blend, the one Olive always made… after hundreds of years Nula has come close to replicating the brew quality, but she’s still not quite there.

But I don’t mind. Variety and all that…

As for my companion in the gazebo in my garden, it’s clear ...

Chapter 186 - For the Record

Sure enough, my worst fear – in this situation anyway – has been realized, as demonstrated by that same look of love in her eyes.

I was trying to free her from this.

“What happened?” I ask the pitch-black woman entwining herself around me – thankfully clothed at least. “I resisted it… I thought you would too, or at least would be able too…”

Izahne sighs deepl...

Chapter 185 - For the Record

Well, that turned out exactly like I’d expected it to.

And hoped it to, but I know that’s the compulsion again. Despite the contentment washing over me from the feel of my wife’s skin against me as she sleeps peacefully.

It’s probably been a bad idea, but I’ve found myself not wanting to sleep and instead just watching her breathe quietly in silence, night after night afte...

Chapter 184 - For the Record

“It’s… not actually that… can we not stand like this? Please?”

I blink. “Oh. Sorry. This is really important though!”

“Then,” she sighs, “can we at least sit down somewhere? This is far less than civil. Do you intend to simply invade my home any time you have a question of some kind?”

Apparently, I took too long to answer because she continues, “Oh gods...

Chapter 183 - For the Record

…This isn’t working.

Once again, I’ve tried a number of different things… and again, even the words of creation are failing me.

I tried removing the title, thinking maybe we needed both for it to be in effect… but I simply got an error about ‘cascading’ something-or-other. The same thing happened when I tried to remove the Trait.

It was a bit more drastic, but I ...

Chapter 182 - For the Record

Two hours, she said. At the fountain.

I’m not sure why we’re meeting in such a public place… some of my… past self’s past experiences with watching humans interact seem to imply that she may be trying to prevent me from making a scene? But if she was going to give me some kind of seriously bad news I’d have thought she’d just tell me over our link…

And yet, here I am...

Chapter 181 - For the Record

Well, I guess now I actually know what my financial advisor has been doing with my assets…

Whether I understood any of that is another question entirely, but if nothing else I’ve been made aware that he’s definitely been busy. Also, our dealings with Sekhmet and her… oh, what was the word… silverfish? Sending cat?

(Syndicate,) Nyx cuts in out of nowhere.

…

(W...

Chapter 180 - For the Record

And here we are, at another gala!

…Uninvited, of course. Although I’m sure if she wanted one, my fox wife could have requested it…

She didn’t. But that didn’t stop me from attending anyway, nor from dragging her along with me.

The look on Livvie’s face hasn’t gotten any less hesitant since we arrived, especially after our grand entrance – most lik...

Chapter 179 - For the Record

“Yes. No… Yes? Yes.”

That’s what she’d said when I asked her. Whether she actually wanted to be with me, I mean.

And I don’t know how to process it, or even how to interpret it.

I’m pretty sure that for at least some part of our thousand-plus-year relationship, she’s rationally wanted to be literally anywhere else.

And yet she’s stayed with me, entirely...

Chapter 178 - For the Record

Yes, I’m pleased. Quite pleased.

With what? Why, my new throne room, of course! It’s spectacular!

…And something about it feels more like home. I’d say I’m not sure why, but I have my suspicions.

Hells, they’re not even suspicions so much as observations. I was born in the void, apparently.

Probably.

And that means it’s time to show my wives.

Or...

Chapter 177 - For the Record

While tormenting my adventurer ‘friends’ for a few dungeon dives – without a break between them, it’s so wonderful seeing them struggle – I had an idea.

A wonderful idea.

Why do the gods all have these boring, repetitive architectural designs for their audience halls?

I can do better.

I can do so much better.

And so I’m going to.<...

Chapter 176 - For the Record

A massive sigh reverberates in my throne room.

It’s mine, of course. I’m not sure who else it would have been. Some things never change, after all.

Hades… or Izahne again, rather, has resumed her old habit of dungeon diving.

Not that she has much room for advancement. I do suppose she could try to level her Class…

Maybe I should do the same. Besides…

I ha...

Chapter 175 - For the Record

"I would rather you hate and fear me than fear everyone and everything around you. I've seen that future. I don’t ever want to see it again."

That’s what they said.

But I’m just not sure how to feel anymore, other than betrayed. I don’t think I asked much… it was so simple.

Don’t change others without their consent. Don’t repeat what you did to Pearl.

…Wh...

Chapter 174 - For the Record

Nothing is working… not in the way I want. Hades continues to lack herself… I still don’t recognize who she is now.

And I’m not sure what to do about it.

I’ve been nursing her slowly back to stability little by little in the same way I’m helping my fox wife recover… though both are slow indeed.

I’ve already tried healing Arty’s soul damage with the words of c...

Chapter 173 - For the Record

…And one extended argument involving a lot of weapon pointing and threatening with feelers later, the situation is at least defused…

For now. Probably.

But Vulcan isn’t happy. Also, I don’t care. I have more important things to handle.

Like my wife’s ongoing panic attack. The altercation with the special guards or whatever didn’t help one bit.

And it didn’t...

Chapter 172 - For the Record

A tube trip and some walking – okay, drifting – later, and we’re outside of a familiar building in the industrial district.

This is going to be the hard part… even if she remembers, they’re gone.

They’re all gone.

But the place is still here, regardless of who owns it now. I’m sure I can convince them to let a pair of gods in if nothing else… a fair number of m...

Chapter 171 - For the Record

“Why does he only hate me now?”

Nyx shrugs while Hades has joined her in fawning over the cat.

And it’s pretty clear that my wife recognizes him.

…

And he recognizes me.

Well, I’ll have to ask Hades if she remembers anything else now too.

Later.

For now… I’m still being stared down by an ancient god. Although he does keep cas...

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-Ember

Chapter 170 - For the Record

Several hours have passed, and Hades and I are still waiting. 

What are we waiting for you ask? Nyx and Vulcan to stop talking on and on and on about technical aspects of runesmithing and blah blah blah, blah blah. 

Which, to be fair, is my former Assistant’s primary interest, and also something Vulcan literally invented so the mortals could play god with their invention...

Chapter 169 - For the Record

Well, she didn’t. 

Maybe it’s easier that she doesn’t remember them… especially since Sodaca was so awful. 

“Couldn’t you just resurrect them? You know, like you did Omorth, or all your weird homunculus priests, or whoever else back in the day.” 

Nyx isn’t wrong. But, well… 

“Should I, if she doesn’t even remember?” I say quiet...

Chapter 168 - For the Record

Until now, anyway. Brand new in my Status is the Infernal Common language. 

Which doesn’t really matter much. I don’t even have to use the words of creation to learn a language, I’m a fucking god. I can just will those lesser things to happen, and they just happen. 

…Although now that I’m aware that it exists as a resource, doing it does indeed consume some divin...

Chapter 167 - For the Record

The former eldra’s glaring doesn’t stop as she continues tearing through wave after wave of goblins… 

I guess I may as well take a peek at her progress. It’s a bit more difficult than just pulling up her Status through our bond… considering we don’t have one. 

No, not even Erebus made a bond with this poor creature. I’m guessing the intent was just to keep th...

Chapter 166 - For the Record

Surprising to absolutely nobody who knew about it, u-comms are now everywhere, not even a full month later. I’d volunteered the Adventurer’s Guild on my own plane as a test group and Nyx had unsurprisingly refused, choosing to offer them to Gramr instead. 

Because of course she did, and that’s fine. 

The damnable pink demon continues to haunt me at every opportunity,...

Chapter 165 - For the Record

“…And when they pull up a list of other users they’ve registered as members of their party, they can-” 

Yeah, so this is a lot more complicated than I was expecting. I thought Nyx was just going to ask for, I don’t know, a sword that kills gods or makes pancakes or something. 

But this? 

“I can tell you’ve actually been planning this for centuries,...

Chapter 164 - For the Record

Annoying. 

The best word to describe this situation. 

Sure, the four furies are quiet enough… it would seem they’re just as scarred as Hades was. 

But Eros? 

Annoying. Just annoying. She’s constantly hanging herself on me, my wife, my castle staff… if she didn’t move so damned fast when she wants to, Vivi would have blasted her into...

Chapter 163 - For the Record

Well, the walls are definitely familiar. 

I find myself in a place made of water. She’s dreaming of Ceto’s palace, or lodge, or whatever you’d call this place, but it’s definitely a part of it I haven’t seen until now. 

Before me stands a row of angled tables covered in straps and steel fetters, the purpose obvious. Tools and blades of various types line the wa...