Champion of the Goddess Pt. 05

Raven sighed, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. She wanted to be Queen and her aspirations put you in danger. I could not let that stand. I am not there but that does not mean I do not check in on you from time-to-time."

Marna sighed, "Again thank you for warning me. I better go and get some sleep."

Raven stored the crystal for now. He went back down the stairs with his group as they took the bodies out and delivered her naked body to the gate guards with the warrant. They were shocked. Raven looked at the barkeep, Meals for my crew elven wine, and ale for all of them. Send it to my room."

The man nodded, "Sounded like a war up there."

Raven nodded, "Treasonous bitch and her bodyguards brought down. The place will need a lot of cleaning. Do not be surprised if the Queen rips into you for having that hideaway for the King. He is a lecherous bastard."

The man turned white. Raven thought, "Well we tried to limit people knowing who I was. No fucking the bucket brigade this time."

He went to the room with the ladies and ate in relative silence. Myssara sighed, "I brought some of this on myself. I have some persona work to do with how they should look at you. I told that Queen I was half a step from sending her into the cosmos as energy.

I approved the plan to help her and she shit on my champion with her activity and attitude. Neither of them will last long, probably when you finish this life. Their daughter will not rule long when an older and more capable leader comes along in a few months after the parents pass.

It will be chaotic for a while but it will be better than now. Lars does not know his wife is dead but if he finds out he might take drastic action. Warning her was a good idea and telling her to protect herself. I hope she listens. I do not blame you for threatening her over your children.

I ensured she knew how far down in the pecking order she sat in regards to you. You are not getting the time in the towns this life trying to remain under the radar as it were. I am not sure I like it as much but it is a change."

Raven thought, "I meant what I said about this being the last time I lead. Until we have a better working relationship for a few lives at least I will not take that position again."

Myssara sighed, "I know you were serious and I am more hopeful we will work to make things better. Mother has you limited to the night after you get to the next inn. She is watching for any unusual spikes but your 100 children on us had her pausing your use up here. Leaving me horny."

He laughed, "You have many females and a few other male lovers to call upon if the need arises."

She sighed, "Only your ladies come here. Some of your male party members have been here in the past, but I reserve this space mostly for us and your companions. I liked the talk you had with Cresna/ Ersa/Mary if you will. Being honest with you and what you will look to do with her when she departs.

Something special for her. She told Blossom/Tonya of the talk already. Also, what drove you to ask the question. She was surprised you asked but glad you took the news well."

Raven thought back, "I can feel her pulling away. She is becoming that leader and that is a stronger pull for her. That and while she loves me, all the ladies, and occasional children; the constant births weigh on her more with each life.

I have worked to make her a strong leader and I have her working that as my second if you will while I outline strategies and handle the question and answer sessions. Change in subjects, how many champions is Mother up to now?"

He heard Mother, "15 champions, 7 on training worlds. It was 16 but one had a mental breakdown after 2 lives as a champion and killed himself. Technically I had to kill him for his activity. He confirmed in that process that the world could never have another champion. Another tried to take his place and the pool consumed them.

They knew the risk and it was from the longest living local born. I have slowed the selection process down on that after he did that. The one who killed himself was the eldest male player from Earth. The one your daughter started with.

He agreed to be that goddess's champion immediately, trying to make Ravanna jealous. When he heard Ravanna got a good champion who could fuck nearly as well as you did. That Victor pleased Ravanna and Violet like that, his goddess rubbed in his shortcoming in performance.

She was frustrated with him and asked him why could he not do that to her; even when she modified his cock to what she liked to have including an upturned bow to it. Almost double your largest girth and an extra 2 inches longer for all races he played it was the same size.

He got extremely jealous and freaked out, tried to, and succeed in one case, in raping some women and personas in the last inn he was in. I went and killed him myself and ended it all for him after 84 years of life. He blamed me and you as a part of the problem as well.

He did not enjoy my company as I would not let him near my ass. Yet he knew I let you do that to me. He felt you got too many advantages by being a half-elf champion that made other champions look bad. His goddess did him no favors when she did that to him.

I only had a couple of children with him the day he changed over. I found him to be a bit brutish and that put me off from seeing him again. He was more into self-gratification from the acts than pleasing his mates. I have 75 Grand Masters out there now."

Raven sighed, "Dream state meeting auditorium with these 75 Gaming Grand Masters. It is time I talked with them collectively. If you had that conference room, I asked for before, I would ask for the other champions as well."

She sighed, "Not yet but eventually in the conference room. They will hear your discussion and be able to address them but I have some universal mechanics to work through to make that happen."

He looked at the ladies who seemed to be staring at him, "Sorry conversations with higher powers as it were. I need to go to a Gaming Grand Master's meeting. I have items to address with them. I may send for you Cresna and Tonya later in this one or in another one more likely. You ladies will have to play. While I deal with some issues. My cock is free to ride of course."

They nodded and smiled at each other. Vina sighed, "Else get some sleep because you rocked us already. Cresna told us we have seen nothing yet and this run is tame compared to past runs. I like it tamer, to be honest."

Frema sighed, "I still like the ladies more but you are a pleasant diversion. I was told you would understand that."

Raven nodded, "I do."

He kissed them all good night, stripped down, and took his position in bed after putting his Raven on a camp watch.

He was in the Auditorium. He looked out, "Like the goddesses chairs spread out for them to sit in."

Mother nodded and got him the barstool chair he liked for the stage. They all appeared and saw Mother and then noticed Raven.

He nodded, "Welcome fellow Gaming Grand Masters to the first group meeting we are having. Yes, there may be more in the future. Some are not here bodily because they are elevated into champions already. You could put their images on the wall if you would Mother so they can see and be a part of this as well."

She sighed and nodded. "There are 15 current Champions out there. A few are at the same level of champion status as I am. The top-level that we know about. I was the first but not the last.

Now let me start with what prompted me to ask for this meeting. We have 15 champions, we had 16. One went off the rails with jealousy. Mainly over me and his goddess taunting him about not being more like me in some sexual aspects. He started getting destructive and abusive to players in the game.

Mother ended his existence because she could not get him to see reason. She has slowed down the champion selection process because of this. He was the first Gaming Grand Master after me and I suggested at that time we take the most experienced Gaming Grand Master and pair him with the newest goddess initially so she could learn from the 84-year veteran of the game.

That goddess was my daughter with Mother, the one who opened the door if you will for champions to come into play in this universe. Later I got Mother to start looking at player profiles and applying them to Grand Masters as well. This started to address the high suicide rates.

Especially among the males who had no opportunity for advancement, those who came here from Earth in the same manner as I did and were pissed off. But there were a lot more who had issues because of gaming mechanics, the types of gaming they like to do, and last but not least.

Affairs of the heart and being separated from one they felt a strong bond with. Be that to a different starting inn, being lost in combat and falling back, or being sent off to another world. I know most of you are local born. Most of my lovers are local born, in fact, all 4 ladies I have in my bed in this life are local born.

Show of hands from those who are here who have had arguments with the goddess they have worked with about how a situation was handled or an element of the game mechanics you are not happy with?"

He raised his hand as did the other champion and over half of the Grandmasters did. He nodded, "Those that raised your hands are doing your jobs. Both parts of the job are what I mean. Running with the players and training them up is one part. Everyone has a style for doing that. We are creating leaders for the generations coming.

The population explosion that is coming from the introduction of champions is seeing to that. The other part is more confrontational and requires adult conversations, or in some cases giving an extreme example. Show them the level 20 Dragon fight and then the level 20 Lich fight we did."

Mother showed them all those encounters.

One of the men raised a hand, "How in the hell did you do that in the Lich fight?"

Raven sighed, "You will notice I am the only half-elf here. There are reasons for this. Because I was the first, I was the lab rat, the one a lot of experiments were run upon. Including discovery of the different stages to the champion and how they are being done for others. I broke the ground but because I am truly half-elven, we ran into a few problems.

My goddess, Myssara, has love, lust, procreation, magic, and the hunt are her domains. Let us look at this for a second. I am the hunter or I am the lover when having sex with a goddess. In the pool when this occurs it is completely random.

If I gave my goddess an alignment, she is neutral good with chaotic tendencies. We align in that matter but I have fewer chaotic tendencies. She would argue that point."

Myssara showed up, "I would argue that point but not here."

The guys laughed. Raven continued, "These changes affected a lot of my genetics. My human side had a predication for twins and triplets in them. My elven side enhanced upon that I am approaching having 1,000 children born or on the way. I will likely get to that point by the time this life is over.

I fire off into a race compatible player or persona in their cunts and they will get pregnant from me unless they are already pregnant. Where you have a 30% chance of getting them pregnant, I hit at 130% if you will.

That takes a lot of energy to do and my elven side compensated for this and overcompensated during the life that that upgrade occurred. I will put this in terms you can understand. I was a 20 pounds sack for flour being filled to 50 pounds of flour. Flour being power. We had to make some adjustments.

One was bleeding off that energy into children. But I could only take that so far because the worlds only get so much power and each new life on the way is more power the world requires. The second method led to what you saw. My characters are all gestalts. Mother, send them all the descriptions of gestalts. Real quick."

She sighed and sent it off. He sighed, "That second encounter showed Mother that letting champions be gestalts could create more problems and she has barred it on other champions...for now. I did it in that encounter to do that second job.

Both of these runs were days apart. I took a level 15 character I had in reserve, my first, and went back in and got those people I lost on the Dragon fight through the lich fight. I needed to prove there was an issue with the level 20 quests she had setup. 3 out of 10 survival was not a success in my book.

9 out of 9 success was considered almost blasphemous to a lot of the goddesses who looked at the quest. I did this to teach Myssara, Mother, and the hundreds of goddesses who viewed these level 20 quests and what would happen if a champion as a gestalt would do if he felt the quest was not balanced right and he unleashed.

They ran simulations with my world's best players, all of the Gaming Grand Masters and Champions here in that quest. Only 4 groups managed to survive—of the GRAND MASTERS to complete the quest. Two of those only 1 of the players survived. No, strictly player simulations succeeded.

I proved my point that while raids had been eliminated her level 20 quests were still over the top raid quests in design but with half OR LESS of the force attacking it. As a Gaming Grand Master and as a champion your second job is to look at ways of improving the lives of everyone, including your goddess. There was a heated discussion where she told me I beat her.

That was the wrong answer. I did not beat her, I taught her something. She was not ready to address the 'how to fix it' problem as she had before for another quest. Play the mine quest and the interrogations, just my interrogation for them."

Mother nodded and played it, "Some of you might have been in an interrogation or questioning room like this if you have destroyed one of your goddess's quests. Show of hands please if you have?"

He saw all of the champions and a third of the Grand Masters who had hands up before with their hands up."

Raven smiled, "That is our second job. To help the goddess improve the gaming experience for the world. Point out the too obvious red flags in that quest she brought me in for. I had that discussion with her.

The other goddesses have probably already heard it and are looking at the ideas, some may have already had those covered. Myssara is one of the younger goddesses and she got a metagamer for a champion.

I challenge her at times, not to be me against her, to get her to learn more about thinking outside the box. Give them the green dragon fight you had set up for us and my actions."

A few of them clapped at his solution. One stood up, "I would love to run with you. That was crazy fun to watch and it worked."

Raven nodded, "Yes we called it heroically stupid but the programing of that persona for the dragon did not have an answer other than to try and flee the fight and we brought it down. I say we because everyone had to be a part of that fight, arrows, spells, and swords on a swinging charge.

Each of those, in my eyes, was not me against her but me trying to teach her something new. Ways to make the world feel more authentic to an open world for exploring.

The chances of success for playing smart is rewarded, for being daring is rewarded, and for complete stupidity ending in death. Some players though get a kick out of finding epic ways to die in a quest. Give them my dwarven barbarian bomb."

They sat there and started laughing as they watched that. "I told them if he had made it to 15, I would have taken him on the lich run because if he died it would at least be entertaining. If he made it to 20 then all the better. He brags to others he had one of the shortest runs while running with the champion and then proves it to those parties and dies repeatedly but he is having fun.

Getting to level 20 is a goal but having fun is what he wants and he is getting it. He is a happy player. He may run at some point with one of the leaders I train who rein him in and gets him to level 20 and finishes the training I started with him.

I have had that discussion with Myssara on a few occasions. Players I refer to as bricks. Those that do not wish to listen to a word I have to say. I give them a chance to prove they are trainable when they are trying to recruit me into their party, not knowing that I am the Raven.

I have sent some off because they were beyond any hope of listening to me. But others who have run with me and are becoming leaders may get through to him later. Not every player is going to take your advice. Free will. We all have it, even as champions.

The Goddesses have it but not with Mother Creator. They have to follow her directions. I can go against her direction and on one occasion while I did not initiate it her direction was violated. She asked that I not reveal myself in the town we were coming up upon.

I revealed myself to a bunch of thieving military men who wanted to steal our excess horses but we were not in town yet. The loophole. We had not entered it. I told them both it created role-playing opportunities as the rumors would fly that the Raven was in the area without that patrol wanting to identify me for fear of persecution. Show them the arrival sequence from selling horses to the big reveal leveled at me."

They watched it and then most of them started laughing. He sighed, "She knew what I looked like in that life because she had run another character earlier and came back on that character to join me. Myssara arranged it but failed to tell her not to reveal me. Sometimes the best-laid plans of a Goddess go sideways and she had to improvise to the situation.

She is learning that she has to work on how some of her personas view her champion when they are faced with knowing who I am. Champions have a level of power. Now I mentioned procreation and 130%. By that meant I can get infertile personas pregnant and restore their fertility.

I have learned to control the numbers and the sex of the children being born from me. I leave it at random most of the time but if I focus on them, I can control the numbers. I proved that to both Mother and Myssara in our last session in her sanctum where they each gave birth to 20 children and then 30 children...EACH.

The first 20 I could dictate the sexes. I was outside the pool. In the pool, I could not control the sexes but I could still do the numbers. It was an experiment I initiated. A reminder to both of them about something I have said before. To Mother Creator and all of the goddesses.

You can have the power to do anything in your world or universe. Just because you have that power should you do it? I have yet to dictate the sex of the children in-game, I have done it with goddesses as I tested my abilities as a champion. Because I can do something should I? There will be times where giving someone a male heir for a quest line would be an ideal solution.

I will consider it and have considered it. I asked her, in this life to let me lead. She decided to let the personas have free will when made an offer. She found out some of the personas went off the rails, meaning they acted contrary to what she expected or wanted and she realized she needed to make some adjustments to personas.

If she has her personas working a certain way they have to know how to act when I am not known, as well as when I am known as the champion. In this run, I only revealed myself to royalty. I offered to fix fertility but I also spilled secrets.