Chapter 556 – Looking for recruits – Part 6.
"...Welp, that is your decision." – sad Phantasia as he took of his plague doctor mask.
"But just warning."
"At this point, once you take my hand, there will be no going back."
"Are you sure about this?" – asked Phantasia as he extended his hand towards Orion.
"I fucking am already." – said Orion as she without hesitation approached Phantasia and grabbed his hand.
"I’ve already slaughtered a village for your fucked up reason, so do you really think there is any point in going back?"
"..."
"Nope." – said Phantasia as he shook his hand alongside Orion.
"Welcome to the team."
"..."
(Oh boy... You have really done it girl.) – thought Orion who felt both relived... And somewhat scared.
(I’ve really sold my soul to this fucker....)
"Well then, I’m going to introduce to the rest of the team later." – said Phantasia as he let go of Orion’s hand.
"But first thing first."
"You probably asked yourself this question or you maybe even curios now, why I’m suddenly recruiting more people to our little team."
"!"
"Oh yeah, why is that?" – asked Orion.
"I mean, from what I’ve looked up, you had stayed at the team of 3 for long time."
"This... Does looks suspicious a bit."
"Or are you just trying to make your own guild?"
"Well... Making guild isn’t exactly my main goal or anything like that."
"Once we are back at the ship, I will tell you everything." – said Phantasia as he alongside Orion and his daughters headed right back to the ship, before moments later Phantasia began dropping bomb shell after bomb shell at Thanatos.
"Divinity!? Top rankers have it!? What the fuck?!" – shouted Orion on top of her lungs as Phantasia revealed to the woman all the secrets he had uncovered.
"Yeb. And I even have divinity myself." - said Phantasia as he extended his hand and shown a symbol of two water droplets and the mirror between them, one of the droplets going downwards, while the other one going upwards.
"Huh.... Okay... Wow...." – said Orion as she sat down on the cut down piece of lumber.
"I mean... You are really just going to drop a bomb shell on me like this?"
"Hey. If I want you to trust me, I need to reveal the truth and what not, don’t I?" – asked Phantasia.
"As I’ve said, in our team, the trust is the most important factor."
"What would be the point of only me trusting you?"
"..."
"Okay... I think I get it somewhat." – said Orion.
"So you are saying, that the divinities are overpower bullshit late game powers that people can find and obtain themselves."
"Which provide at least a legendary rank class, and provide you with two stats, {Faith} and {Divinity}."
"Yeb." – said Phantasia.
"After obtaining the divinities you can do several things."
"For example, start off your own religion, which will generate {Faith} for you."
"By the way, you also design a symbol for yourself that represent your religion, I made this symbol here myself."
"Anyway, regarding the {divinity} and {faith} stat, there is still a lot of unknown to me just yet... However, I will tell you this."
"They are overpowered and they will throw the balance off the game into the chaos."
"..."
"Right now in the game, we know of 5 confirmed divinity users."
"Diamond, Apple and Arthur."
"Each of them are registered rankers."
"Arthur became ranker thanks to his divinity, while Diamond was already a ranker when he obtained his... However."
"Once he did obtained it, he obtained a massive and bullshit power up, which is still not very well developed."
"And at the rate things are going, the divinity users will keep popping up."
"Which is something I don’t want."
"But at the same time, there is limit what I can do."
"Let’s say I have a plan... An endgame plan."
"But those divinities fucking derailed my plan completely."
"So, the only way to repair it? Is to adapt."
"However, just getting 3 divinities will be not enough to repair my destroyed endgame plan."
"But what if we had 5?"
"..."
"So that is why you wanted to recruit me?" – asked Orion.
"Yeb." – replied Phantasia.
"However, the problem was with trust."
"I mean, I can’t just grab random guy, make them overpowered, and them have them obtain the divinity, making them even far more overpowered, only for them just betray me."
"Heck. The first skill from divinity classes me and Thanatos had obtained were already bullshit overpowered skills."
"So tell me."
"How strong do you think you will become after receiving both my support and obtaining the divinity?"
"How strong the nobody like you will become?"
"..."
"..."
(Fuck.) – thought Orion as she was doing calculation in her head and realized how heavy the current situation is.
(If what he is saying... No. He is saying the truth.)
(There is no doubt about it.)
(So.... Fuck me.)
(No wonder that he is recruiting me.)
"..."
"Welp, I will be honest with you now." – said Phantasia as he walked towards the plane.
"Right now, you may not be able to pass the divinity trial."
"Simple put, we don’t have any idea what kind of trial you will be facing."
"My trial wasn’t combat oriented, but was about being a ruler."
"While Thanatos’ trial was a solo trial where she had to do everything on her own."
"You may encounter a trial that isn’t combat oriented, or you may find one."
"And if you get the combat one... Well, the current you probably wouldn’t be able to much."
"So, before you can take on any trials, we will have to fatten you up a bit."
"Anyway, you now understand properly the current situation."
"Are you still in it?"
"..."
"Are you fucking with me?" – asked Orion with a massive smile on her face.
"If I can obtain power that can fucking power that could possible allow me to crush these fuckers with ease-"
"Then there is no fucking way I’m backing up!"
"Well then, lady." – said Phantasia.
"On the board with you." – said Phantasia as Orion boarded the plane, before moments later take into the skies.
"..."
(Welp, I say that it was worth it.) – thought Phantasia.
(Orion is honestly a way better find than I’ve thought.)
(Still, the problem is that she is still weak.)
(Her level is only over 200.)
(If she were to encounter any combat trials, she would lose right on the spot.)
"By the way, what is your specialties anyway?" – asked Phantasia.
"I saw you using short sword and bow, as well as some stealth oriented skills."
"Are you assassin sniper build?"
"Oh... Right, I should explain my build." – said Orion.
"Well... If I’m being honest, because I was forced to pretty much always play solo, my build is... Quiet messy to say the least."
"I have archer type build, rouge type build, swordman type build and warrior type build.)
"However, each of them are shitty like hell."
"I don’t have even have a single epic class on me."
"I have good number of rare classes... But... Well, nothing is developed at all."
"Honestly speaking, I was even wondering about resetting my character and doing it all over...."
"...Nah." – said Phantasia.
"I can work with this."
"I could make you some equipped that could work with your build."
"I mean, I’m an all-rounder that specializes in ton of different stuff, yet I’ve made equipment that fits me perfectly."
"I also see that you a human race."
"If you like, I could maybe help you become a vampire, if that is what you want."
"Wait, really!?" – asked excited Orion.
"Yeb." – replied Phantasia.
"I make equipment for each one of my team members, so obviously I will also make you a personal equipment for you."
"..."
"Oh, speaking of them, I think I should tell them about you."
[You have opened the group chat.]
["Sup. I’ve recruited that girl I’ve told you about."] – Phantasia.
["Her name is Orion. She is good girl for our team. It will take time growing her, but it will be worth it."]
(Well then, 4/5.) – thought Phantasia.
(We only need to find 1 more person to our team and it will be good to go.)
"..."
(Still, I think I should leave Orion in the homunculuses’ hands at home. They should help her out in growing and what not.)
(While the girls are helping her out, I should either help out Thanatos or Maparapara with their-)
[You have received video call request from player Maparapara.]
"?"
[You have accepted the call.]
"Sup. You are contacting me already?" - asked Phantasia.
"Is it about the girl I’ve told you-"
["No."] – replied Maparapara before Phantasia could finish speaking.
["It is about something else."]
["I’ve found the temple."]
["But..."]
["Somebody already claimed the divinity within."]
"!"
"...Explain." – said Phantasia as the tone of his voice changed.
["I don’t fucking know! I’ve checked the temple and confirmed that it should be the temple where the divinity is stored... But there is nothing!"]
["Somebody came here before me and snatched it."]
"..."
"Fuck." – said Phantasia as he leaned back while Orion looked somewhat confused and worried.
(Welp.... Shit.) – thought Phantasia.
(There is a freaking 6th divinity user out there now?!)