Thrones

After leaving Caitlin’s room, Seth figured he should check on Hollie. Since the system hadn’t alerted him of anything, he knew she must be fine, but he still wanted to see her after having tasked her to solo pilot the ship.

Seth walked to her room, observing even more people roaming around the ship’s hull and having the system give him a small profile for each of them.

When he reached Hollie’s room, he didn’t bother knocking and teleported through the door. Hollie was sitting in a lotus position on the bed, a small vial of energy at her side and her eyes closed.

Feeling Seth walk in, she didn’t open her eyes as she said: “Can you give me some time? I should be done with this vial in about ten minutes.”

Seth nodded and came to sit by her side on the bed. Hollie was only wearing a short top, barely covering the space above her belly, paired with comfortable-looking shorts.

Her hair was just as messy as always, floating gently into the breeze formed by her air energy. Looking at her slender neck, visible through her strands of hair, Seth felt his lust source spinning quicker, but he didn’t take any action, not wishing to disturb her.

Ten minutes later, Hollie slowly opened her eyes and noticed Seth staring intently at her belly button. She looked down to check if there was anything weird with it, but once she spotted nothing out of place, she looked back at Seth and asked: “Anything the matter?”

Seth was startled, his mind floating through indecent thoughts. He shook his head and smiled at her as he said: “No, I was just lost in thought. How are you?”

“I’m fine.” Replied Hollie with a nod. “If you’re worried about me keeping the ship afloat, don’t be. It’s quite easy now that I got used to it.”

“Sorry for having you do this.” Said Seth, feeling somewhat remorseful at not having brought another air ascended.

“I already said I’m fine. What I worry about is your end of the deal.”

Seth smiled, knowing she was okay if she mentioned that, so he leaned his body backward, supporting himself in his arms, and said: “Fine. You can ask whatever you want. I’m an open book.”

Hollie looked somewhat doubtful and asked: “How do you have all that knowledge?”

“Mainly because I’m from the future. I’ve reversed time and sent my future memories to my fifteen years old body.” Replied Seth casually. “Next question.”

Hollie was surprised to hear him reply without trying to avoid her question and lowered her head, processing his answer. She knew about his time source, so his response was not completely unexpected. She even considered something like that once she learned about the existence of time energy.

“Did you reach the end of the ascended path in the future?”

“If you’re asking about the ninth shell, I reached it.”

Hollie’s chest started heaving up and down at his answer, and even the ship shook slightly, making Seth add: “If you can’t keep the ship stable, I’ll stop here and answer the rest of the questions in the Blood Kingdom.”

Hollie took a deep breath to calm her pounding heart and nodded as she asked: “What’s at the end?”

“After the ninth shell, Godhood. Becoming one in soul, body, and energy.”

“Gods…” muttered Hollie, her eyes gleaming in their sockets as she lowered her head again. Looking back at Seth after pondering the meaning behind what he said, she asked: “Were you a god in all your energies? How does that work?”

“I was not. I was the God of Destruction. As for how it works, I don’t know, since there were no gods with two or more energies.”

Hollie nodded, but her eyes suddenly widened, and the ship shook again. “There were more gods?”

Seth smiled wryly and asked: “Did you really think I was the only god in existence? There were six other gods besides me.”

“Gaia, ruling over the Throne of Earth.”

“Razim, ruling the Throne of Water.”

“Dukbium, the Throne of Fire.”

“Vayu, the Throne of Air.”

“Yggdrasil, the Throne of Life and Death.”

“Kronos, the Throne of Time.”

“There were also hundreds of demi-gods, beings who had reached the peak of power but never managed to claim a divinity for themselves.”

Hollie latched onto every name Seth had called, a thirst for reaching those peaks slowly growing inside her as well.

“Are there any gods in existence now?”

“There are. The thrones of Fire and Time should be free, but all the other gods already own their divinities.”

“Is it hard to claim a divinity?” she asked next.

“I wouldn’t call it hard for those thrones that are still empty. You have to feel that divinity yourself and summon it inside your body. It’s sort of like how one feels the energy in the atmosphere and absorbs it, but for a claimed divinity, the process is a lot more complex.”

“You have to either kill the current throne owners, which is impossible without help from another god, or challenge God’s Tower and request a divinity after conquering it.”

“God’s Tower?” asked Hollie, wondering what that place was.

“It’s a dimension no one really ever understood, not even us gods, a place where your divinity can’t follow even if you enter. It’s the place gods always feared and never even got close to.”

“Once you break into the ninth shell, you can challenge the tower anytime. Inside the tower, you will have to pass through a hundred floors, each more difficult than the last, and once you reach the top, you’ll be entitled to a question and three wishes.”

Hollie seemed to realize something as Seth explained the God’s Tower and asked: “You said that you were the God of Destruction. This means you didn’t reverse time using your power, but one of the tower’s wishes, didn’t you?”

Seth nodded with a smile. “Yes, I was the one god crazy enough to go into that place, and my last wish was to revert time back to when I was fifteen.”

“But why? Why would you give your divinity away like that? All that you have worked for your entire life?”

“Because I got bored with sitting on that lonely and cold throne, wanting something more. I jumped down so I could climb back to the top, bringing everyone here with me.” Replied Seth while grabbing her soft hand and stroking it.

The two kept talking for hours, Hollie’s questions seeming without end. She wanted to know more about the other gods, Seth’s past life, her past life, the Oath kingdom’s fate, her fate, and so on. Seth answered each one of her questions truthfully.

“What was - “Hollie was about to ask another question when Seth interrupted by pushing her onto the bed and sealing her lips with a kiss. Hollie protested initially, but then Seth grabbed one of her breasts over the slim top and squeezed it tight, causing a small moan to escape her throat.

Releasing her from the kiss, Seth looked at her frowning expression and glazed eyes as he said: “If I were to let you, I am sure you’ll keep questioning me all the way to the Blood Kingdom.”

Hollie’s frown eased up, realizing she got a bit excited, and she nodded as she fixed her eyes on the hand Seth was using to squeeze her boob. “Then what do you propose?”

Seth chuckled and squeezed harder as he said: “Time for some fun.”

Before Hollie could process his words, both their clothes disappeared, and they spent another hour doing a different kind of questioning. Seth had to keep it moderate, not to cause them all to fall to their deaths, but the ship still shook with every one of her orgasms.

System alerts kept appearing in his vision, warning him or people panicking, looking for him and other troubles, but he didn’t want to leave Hollie until he ensured they were both partially satisfied.

Using destruction energy to clean them both up, Seth dressed up again and looked at the naked Hollie lying on the soft bed.

“I have to calm everyone down. Things went wilder than I expected.”

Hollie nodded and bit her lip. “Go, sorry about that.”

Seth chuckled and bent down to plant a kiss on her nose before teleporting away. He barely arrived at the ship’s deck when all the eyes there landed on him.

Pretty much everyone was there, panicked looks on most of their faces. Seth cleared his throat loudly to silence the hushed murmurs and said: “I know everyone is worried, but there are no problems. The cause of the shaking was my working with Hollie, trying to find a way for her to rest while flying, but unfortunately, we were unsuccessful. I apologize for not letting you know earlier and causing everyone to panic.”

Most people there calmed down at his words, but those in the know had weird faces, especially Maya, who could imagine what Seth’s working with Hollie entailed.

After saying a few more words to calm everyone down, people started leaving the ship’s deck and heading for their rooms while Maya approached him.

“Good work.” She said with a smile on her lips.

Seth shrugged and came to wrap his hand around her waist, planting a quick kiss on her lips. “How was I supposed to know that would happen? And after the first one, I couldn’t leave her hanging, so we could only continue.”

Maya giggled and brought her body closer, pressing it against Seth’s. “Do you have the energy for more? I also have some work for you to do.”

Seth looked past Maya at Caitlin, who was waiting with Leora in the back, their eyes fixed on him. “Unfortunately, I have something else to do.”

Maya turned around and sighed when she spotted Caitlin looking away from her. “You’re doing that brat as well?”

Seth shook his head and told her about his plan to heal Saif’s missing member. Maya surprised him by grabbing onto his penis over his pants and saying: “No way. This is ours, and you’re not donating it to no one.”

Seth’s eyebrows rose in surprise, not knowing if she was joking, but seeing the serious look in her eyes, he was inclined to believe she was not. Thinking about it quickly, he raised a finger, turning it into a penis, and asked: “Can I give him this?”

“You can come to see me when you’re done. I just got a great idea.” Maya chuckled and let go of his little Seth before walking back towards the ship’s hull.

Seth sighed, already knowing what she was thinking about. He had already thought about it, but never got through with it, finding it strange.

The girls approached him once Maya was gone, and Caitlin asked, a little unenthusiastically: “I’m ready. Can Leora come as well?”

“Sure, let’s go.” Said Seth before taking the lead in heading for Saif and Julie’s room.