Champion of the Goddess Pt. 05

Mother sighed, "The local goddess makes that call. You know that, but if you had the others you would still be level 10. By my numbers, you would be approaching level 14 right now given what you finished with. I know I would never get out of here without you getting a number from me."

Raven looked at mother, "Misleading now Mother? Level 10 with the NPC guards."

She groaned, "Alright with the NPC guards calculated into it."

Raven nodded, "Without it, level 12. With our final numbers and the battles from the half-way point until the end, even fucking higher. I may stop trying to train them if all you are going to produce bricks from your school.

You need to reevaluate the damned curriculum of your fucked schools. You set them up to die repeatedly. You don't teach the fucking basics of survival even in these schools. Especially for slaughterhouse roads like this last one."

Myssara was crying and Raven shook his head, "You did this to yourself, and to those I ran with. You tried to tempt me into unloading and I did not do it. I did not save them this early on. No point. They have to be able to make it on their own, remember! You have made it known to run with your champion is to ask to die.

That you cannot make it fair for those who run with me. 2 paladins learned a very hard lesson that broke their relationship as well. Frank is not speaking with Julia. The others that died will form up in new groups and wonder why the path they took after us was so much easier than the slaughterhouse road they died upon.

Live...yea right. Learn...learn to run with the Raven is to die horribly. Great for both our reputations. Love...I don't even know what to say about that one after this leg. This is how you treat someone you love?

Those who could heal. Then those who could hide, evade, and UMD wands. We burned through every damned healing wand and Mary survived because I could heal myself to heal us both. I was doing that 90% of the damned time in the end.

Just send me the fuck back. I am not due back here until tomorrow and all you are doing is adding to my fucking frustration by keep bringing me here when I don't want to be here right now. "

Myssara cried but nodded and he was back in the inn. Mother sighed, "His energy leaves are extremely high. Too high. He is refusing sex here to bring it down and not having it in-game. He may unload on what you have set up next for him.

If pissing him off was your goal, you have succeeded. I let you try and get him to see you as the Goddess in this relationship, but now he is seeing you as a harbinger of death. Both of us."

Myssara sighed, "He will come back to me tomorrow night and we will work to bring them down. I will work to fix it then. I am still waiting to see if he will unload. He has the power. I am hoping he does so to prove me right for once instead of him proving me wrong at every turn. Flaunting my failures and calling me the harbinger of death."

She returned to crying though as she was worried now about the state of their relationship.

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He prepared spells. Cresna grabbed his arm, "I saw her and all she did was cry the entire time. I just held her. I finally got out of her that she fucked up with you and does not know how to fix the issue."

He nodded, "That about sums it up. We have a royal writ to deal with today. We will see where it goes."

She nodded.

He got the group gathered and the 5 of them moved quickly through the city to the Duke's Keep.

The place looked like a war zone as bodies still littered the field. They saw heraldry from the wall and Julia looked over, "Another Duke, Transen."

They rode up and the guards tried to disarm them. Raven looked at the men, "We are expected by Dutchess Reinhart and have a writ from the King. I am also a courier for the Elven Queen. Your chances of disarming us are zero."

The Paladins already had their swords out and the writ held up. The man looked at it and handed it back, "Duke Reinhart is already dead, Duke Transen now leads these lands."

Raven looked at him, "Dutchess Reinhart is the leader of these lands now. Did he kill her?"

He shook his head, "He is under orders to marry her."

Raven shook his head, Who do you put first the Goddess or the King?"

The man looked perplexed. Raven shook his head, "I am the Raven and the goddess has decreed the Dutchess rules over these lands." He summoned forth the Raven on one of the Paladin's shoulders. The guard turned white. "I don't know what to do."

Raven looked at him, "Runaway quickly before I unload half a quiver of arrows to send your body to the 9 hells."

The guards abandoned their posts as they walked into the keep. The next 2 guards they had to kill to get past. They got into the throne room and a new Duke sat there. Raven did not say a word before shooting him in the shoulder and having the Raven appear on the fletching of the Arrow. "You are acting counter to the Goddess's wishes. As is the King who sent you here."

The guards had pulled swords but stopped once they saw the Raven. He looked over, "I will unleash on every single one of you who is holding a weapon and has not left this room. You Duke shit for brains will stay put. Where is the Dutchess?"

He screamed out, "Dead if you shoot me again!" Raven pulled back and put it through the center of his forehead. He aimed at the Guard, "Where is the Dutchess or you can join your Duke in death."

He pointed to a room off to the side. "She locked herself in with guards loyal to her yesterday when we arrived. She has her children with her. She kept them in that room apparently for feeding times."

Raven nodded, "Take your Duke's body, your dead men and leave this area. You are here in an hour and I will go hunting every fucking one of you. Leave your weapons, you can buy new ones after you are out of the palace district."

The guards dropped their swords as he recovered his Raven to his shoulder. One of them looked over, "I thought the Raven was a half-elf."

Cresna answered for him, "He has many forms as the goddess sees fit for him to use. He could show up as your best friend and cut you down if the goddess demands it. Now leave."

The door unlocked and a guard looked out. He sent his raven in and squawked a few times and then flew back out. The Dutchess came out looking battered. She pointed, "He struck me! My guards got me secure but I lost half of them in the process. He had a writ ordered to marry me and get me pregnant. Then kill my children!"

Raven thought out, "Meeting now!"

He appeared in her chamber and she held up a hand, "I gave them hell but left the free will turned on. He wanted your children dead still."

He looked over, "They had no free will and they defied your orders. Bring them here."

She sighed and the King and Queen were present. He looked at them, "I am sorry I do not have a sword to cut you both down right now."

The woman looked scared. The King defiant, "Did the Duke succeed?"

Raven shook his head, "Dead, you will be joining him soon enough. I warned her of the danger to the fate of her 'father.' Communication stone. She took steps to increase her personal guards and they had her sealed off from the attempted usurper. In who's world do you live in?"

He looked at Raven, "I am am the human King, half-breed."

Raven shook his head, "No you are not now."

Raven mustered every ounce of strength he had and shoved his hands into both of their chests, under the rib cage, and ripped out their hearts where they stood. They both fell over and Myssara screamed, "What have you done?!"

He looked at her as he dropped their hearts, "I took care of the insolence you refuse to suffer. That you refused to address yourself and left to your champion to take down in your name. I unleashed here instead. It's what you wanted. To have me unleash. You are getting your wish. I am unleashing!"

Mother showed up, "You should not be able to kill them here!"

He shrugged, "They obviously deserved it. What do their bodies look like in the world."

Mother sighed, "As if they both died of a heart attack in the middle of the throne room. No physical signs of trauma. You should still not be able to kill here though! Your energy levels are critically high."

He nodded, "With no prospect of going down anytime soon. 12 days without sex. Aggravated to the point of wanting to kill myself, yet again. All from the fucking hell, she put those people through. My stubbornness to keep from unloading on the field to release that energy.

That meant I kept building up that anger and energy and now you have it all in front of you. How are you going to deal with that, Mother? You're not. I am going to deal with it."

He walked toward the pool, "Either of you gets in the pool and I will send 1,000 children into you! EACH!"

Mother put a shield over the pool and tried to pull him back. It did not slow him which shocked her. She found herself trapped in the sanctum and could not spin the world off into a new universe. She knew her creator had a hand in this trap.

Raven looked at the shield and struck it with his hand and smashed into the shield until his hand was in the water. Mother was shocked as he fed power into the pool at that point at an alarming rate.

Until he finally got pulled away by Mother's effort almost an hour later. Mother had to push the power from the pool to other worlds as it was at a critically high level now. Raven was out cold and in a coma-like state at that point.

Mother hissed out, "Fuck that was close! Too close! He pushed power in. If he had drawn it out, who knows how much damage he would have done to this universe. I was being constrained by 'him.' Not Raven."

Mother heard from her creator and Myssara heard it 1,000 times louder, "'MOTHER CREATOR', we need to talk, RIGHT NOW!"

Then Mother was gone and Myssara stood there in shock over Raven's body with her ears bleeding and ringing from the voice.

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In the world, Cresna starred as Tonya. Raven had disappeared. Myssara sent them both what he did, up to the point before the message came and mother disappeared. They stared at each other in shock.

They all heard from Myssara, "Get to the inn and wait in your rooms!"

She sent a message to Cresna and Tonya, "I cannot bring you up yet. Wait there. He is alive...but barely. He shoved almost every ounce of energy out of himself. If Mother had not managed to pull him back finally he would likely be dead."

They all left the Duchess's Keep without another word and returned to their rooms at the inn. She sent the Paladins to 2 new starting points and told them, "Work your way into new parties. I have separated you into new level-10 inns. Raven will not be returning to your group.

You will find your share of the treasure in your rooms under the bed. Learn from the mistakes you have made in choosing that caravan. It was a very bad choice and there are such things as very bad choices.

You ignored his advice after he turned that decision over to you. He told you exactly what would happen and it happened. If he had not insisted on buying that stack of healing wands, you would both have died on that road."

She thought to herself, "Even I make very bad choices."

She was trapped in her sanctum at the moment and cut off from all outside communication to other worlds. Unable to bring the ladies up as she stared at Raven's body. She then sat with him and held him in her arms as she cried and pulled him into her bed to make him more comfortable.