บท 58: Domains and Territories

Third Person PoV

Everyone was tired from the creation of Hell. But rest was not an option. Very soon the various pantheons will act, trying to get any kind of information about the newly formed pantheon.

Not to mention that the Greeks would be royally pissed. They thought that they were making a good deal, but instead they helped, although indirectly, in the formation of a new pantheon.

More are the pantheons, less the chance of stronger gods being born. And in the case a god with the same divinity is there in the new pantheon, his divinity will cause the other gods of the same divinity to lose some power.

Afterall the dimensional gap can only handle so many pantheons and gods.

This is the reason that gods with very less competition are stronger. Shiva has no major competition as there are no strong gods of destruction, while someone like Apollo is weak as there are many gods of sun.

…

Currently the satans and the Lucifer clan were again sitting in the hall of the Lucifer castle. But this time everyone was relaxed. But they were here because Cain had asked them to wait

Cain began to explain the reason he made everyone wait.

"So now I will explain one of the greatest benefits of having a separate dimension, world tree and a pantheon.

I know many of you thought that we are strong enough to beat Olympus easily or put up a fight against any other pantheon. But no that is not the truth, even against Olympus we would have won but at a tremendous cost."

Serafall commented

"Why? I don't think that you would lose to Hades or Typhoon."

"I wouldn't but that is when the advantage of a pantheon and dimension come in.

First of all, what are territories and domains?"

Nyx, Ereshkigal, Lilith, Morgan and Scathach nodded their heads showing their knowledge. While Echidna said that she knows a little bit about this topic.

Cain seeing that began to explain

"Domains are the manifestation of one's personal power. It is a symbol that their power has reached a high enough level that they can be called truly strong.

A domain is a personal space that is under the complete control of the owner, boosts the strength and gives various effects depending upon the nature of the domain.

Those who can create a domain are almost considered invincible inside it. Unless their opponent has a domain or a way to counter it, they are guaranteed to win."

"So, my super devil form is a domain in itself?"

Ajuka said and Cain replied

"No, from what I have seen your domain automatically activates when you transform. You need to consciously stop it when not fighting, it's a rare case.

Currently only you possess a domain in the devils. Technically Falbium's absolute defence also falls in that category but it is not strong enough.

But domains aren't the reason why gods are so strong and their pantheons ars so valuable. It's due to territories."

"Wait a second, you are saying that Ajuka has a domain but you don't?"

Cain nodded his head at Falbium's question and continued his explanation.

"Domains are very hard to get, that is why Ajuka is a rare case, for me and Zeaira to gain a domain it will take decades of training.

And territories, they are the pantheon itself manifesting at a different place. Normally when a God comes down to earth or any other place, he loses a bit of his strength, but when he is in his territory he gets a boost.

But to summon a territory, all the leaders of the pantheon must agree, it's been more than seven centuries since a territory has been manifested in the human world."

Most beings who were present here were shocked as they didn't know that territories were so dangerous.

"Hence, if Zeus along with his brothers summoned Mt. Olympus, then even I would be a little drained and suppressed when fighting Typhoons and Hades at once."

Although Cain said so, his way of speaking was light, Scathach And Lilith scoffed as he basically said, Even two top 10 beings with territory boost will not be able to defeat him.

Cain explained the more definite basis of domains and territories to the others and told them to attain a domain as fast as they can.

"Also the name of our world tree is Qliphoth."

With that everyone went to rest as they had been very tired. But still many important things were left. Nyx and Ereshkigal, although they regained their Powers a little bit, were not completely fine.

Currently Cain needed to convince the angels to allow him to take the evil souls from the biblical pantheons worshipers.

Not to mention that he needs to form connections to other pantheons, as Hell Is relatively new and needs time to become strong.

Peace is very important now for the devils. And in a few days the common devils need to be informed about this and the lords tomorrow.

Cain had decided to let the matter of telling the information to the devils pillars and common devils rest on his wives shoulders.

He had to deal with much more pressing matters.

…

Some weeks later

Currently Cain was laying on his bed with a body beside him, covered in the silk sheets. At first to anyone this was normal.

He was contemplating his life very seriously at this moment.

But then the gate opened and his wives and personal maid walked in, Cain squinted his eyes and saw two different coloured strands of hairs peeking from the gate, one brown and one black.

Zeaira, Rayla and Grayfia were looking at him with very questioning eyes, and then Grayfia removed the sheets and Cain's dilemma was brought to light.

A small body, with maroon hair was lying beside him, he was looking at the ceiling and thinking about last night, because he most certainly didn't remember going to sleep with his mother.

"My Lord, although I may be steeping my authority as a maid, may I ask that you just banged your mom?"

Rayla looked shocked at the words uttered by the maid, but Cain knew that his little maid can be very sharp with her words when required. Not to mention Zeaira spoke up too.

"Is this your attempt to keep the bloodline pure?"

This was a joke he frequently used to tell her when discussing the similarities between the human nobles and some devil pillars. It came to bite his ass back.

'Now how do I explain this?'

…

Cain started his tale of how he ended up purifying his bloodline with a sigh.

"As you know most of the time alcohol doesn't affect me, but yesterday mom brought some real old wine. She said it was from a millennial ago.

I drank it and after then it was kind of blank, but she talked about her time with my father and then I tried to console her, and it ended up being this stuff.

Not to mention her charm was going haywire last night as she was drunk and not in control of it, so it might not be my fault entirely."

All this explanation was for only one person, that is Grayfia. Cain knew that Zeaira was only angry now, she can always agree for the family.

He was pretty sure he can sleep with Venelana and she will be fine, encouraging even. Zeoticus really was wasting her potential.

Rayla, although shocked, was used to it. Not to mention her grandfather married his own twin, sometimes Cain was astounded by how nobles work.

The audacity of him to say this would also astounding, in Zeaira's mind. Hence he only thought and not said this.

But Grayfia was comparatively tame as compared to the other two. Zeaira had a weird obsession with her family, while Rayla was just used to shit like this happening.

But the poor maid didn't have the obsession nor the experience, only her loyalty to her master.

Cain was sure that if he glared at her and flared his aura, she would accept it without any question but he didn't want to do this until truly required.

Just at that moment, the culprit woke up and looked at three Woman and said

"Good morning, my daughter's."

At this Rayla commented

"It would be better if you said, sisters."

Hearing that Lilith looked a little bit confused bit then turned around to find herself face to face with her son.

Her eyes went a little lower to see the body even better than a Greek God. And then the memories of last night came in.

She didn't blush or do anything a Virgin would but still felt the impact this would have on her son's wives.

She turned around, used magic to conjure some clothes. Still in her human form and bowed and said

"I apologise for it-"

But before she could speak it Zeaira caught her shoulder and said

"There is no need to apologise, mother. I just wanted to check if you were aware of what you had done. As for this I was sure this would happen sooner or later. I had just hoped that you would inform me before jumping at Cain."

Grayfia and Lilith were shocked hearing what Zeaira said.

But Lilith felt relieved and hugged her daughter before turning towards Rayla.

But her words were even more weird

"Do tell me some tricks in bed later on, mother" the last word was uttered in a snicker by Rayla.

This left Grayfia the only one who was out of the loop. Cain was calm, still in bed trying to get more sleep.

His mother truly lived up to her name as the queen of succubuses. But then Lilith turned toward the silver haired maid hoping that she would be the same as the other two but no, Grayfia was not.

At that moment Cain stood up and clapped his hands.

"Zeaira, Rayla let's go outside."

And with that he left the two ladies to talk to themselves. But he stood just in front of the door, while telling his other two wives that he would handle it.

The other two maids had ran away not to get involved.

…

Grayfia was the one to break the silence and said

"Lady Lilith, are you projecting your husband on Lord Cain or is your reason something different?"

"No! I would never. My son is way different from his father. I truly love him."

But Grayfia didn't budge and asked

"Lord Cain sometimes tells me the writings in the book of Lucifer. He told me that his father was a good husband at the start. How can I be sure that you aren't simply using Lord Cain for that?"

"I don't why you are asking it, but no. I loved Cain as my child and now I love him as a lover. You may see it for yourself."

The fire in the eyes of Lilith managed to convince Grayfia. But she still said

"I am not comfortable with the relationship between you two but as my Lord isn't averse to it I will not say more. But please remember Lady Lilith that if you hurt Cain, even if he hates me I will kill you."

Saying Grayfia went outside the room, she found Cain leaning on the wall with his eyes closed.

"Did I overstep my authority?"

"No, what you did was fine. Just don't hate her for this."

Lilith was shocked at many things. Grayfia had called her son by name and insinuated that she could hurt her son.

She was angry but at the same time happy that her son had people caring for him.

She vowed that she will make that girl understand that she too is devoted to her son, like she is to her master.

Seeing that his mother was fine, Cain went to have a bath and go on about his work.

…

A day later

The devils pillars had been Informed about the Hell stuff and so had been the common devils. Today Cain was planning to visit the Norse pantheon to befriend them.

As always Zeaira was asking about how he was going to do that. Cain had sent a letter to Odin and asked for him to take the trial for Valhalla.

"It's very easy Zeaira, I just need to punch Thor hard enough, make double meaning jokes with Odin, and win the trial. Very easy!"

Zeaira sighed at her husband's way of thinking. She was surprised that he hasn't started a divine war by now due the way he thinks befriending works.

But still he always succeeded so she simply kissed him on his lips and sent him on his way to victory.

AN:- And I am back!!! For a little bit atleast. There will be updates for about 5-6 days and after that I am not sure. But still I will try to end the Norse arc.