Chapter Ten (Patreon)

I had developed a bit of the habit lately of just shutting down my human form and just retreating my full consciousness into my mountain as I realized that when my active consciousness was piloting my meat suit, I wasn't able to process the faith coming from the children my champion saved as well as some of the villagers who learned probably from Reimu that Hiro saved them with my blessing. Funny thing is that I could now feel energies of the old hell from the massive cave with the reverse flowing waterfall coming off my side.

Reason I mention that is the large breasted pissed off Oni with strawberry blond hair roaring in fury at the small barrier I threw up down in the tunnel to match the one surrounding my mountain.

The problem was that the Old Hell wasn't just a whole extra spiritual plane attached to my body as it expanded deeper into the earth. The problem was the plethora of otherworldly energies propagating through it which is why I sealed it off as I wasn't sure if it could distort my consciousness further.

Either way I should do something with the pissed off Oni before she starts crying like Marissa did when she broke her broom on my barrier.

Shoving my consciousness back into my human form I quickly teleported a few meters in front of the Oni.

"Hello there!" I said cheerfully as the Oni sent a fire coated straight at my face with a roar, but the result was only the barrier making a comical 'boing' noise as her first was repelled by the elastic barrier as I didnt want the idiots hurting themselves on my barrier and blaming me for it.

I don't know which was more infuriating to Yokai and other people the fact that my barrier was so strong, or the fact that it would purposefully become elastic and stretchy to prevent the idiots from killing themselves by flying at it at the being's max speed face first.

The Oni seeing me unharmed and not even scared of her attack just snorted and then took a deep breath trying to relax. "What the hell is this barrier doing here? We need to get up to the Human Village to trade for stuff."

I could only blink in surprise for a moment before nodding in surprise as it made sense for the Oni's to basically be Gensokyo's miners with how ridiculously physically strong they were on average not to mention they probably traded the ores and even just the stones in general for the rice and sake they drank like water from the humans.

"Ah well I am the god what is now known as Mount Moria. So, my name is Moria and what is your name?" I asked trying to be courteous as the Oni although extremely boisterous did have a code of honor even if they did seem cruel to those, they considered lesser due to their strength-based culture.

"My name is Yuugi Hoshiguma... Now open the fucking barrier!" She roared and then sent her Sake bowl flying like a glowing Frisbee of doom and I was right as it exploded into a cascade of colors and cute shapes which smashed into my barrier.

One minute later I was still standing there as the Oni continued to pour magical attacks into the barrier whether it be fire coated fist's or her stamping her feet which cratered the ground and causing magically explosions somehow.

Ten minutes later I mimed looking at my bare wrist in the universal gesture of checking the time and Yuugi could hear me mutter about going home for a nap.

"Ok fine! You win... What do you want for this barrier to be removed...? We only have three thousand barrels of Sake left!" She cried out and I could only deadpan at the alcoholic's cries about how they only had literally like a weeks' worth of booze as each of the thousand Oni some living within old hell would go through a whole barrel of Sake in the course of day or two...

"Aren't there other entrances into Old Hell..." I asked tiredly already feeling a headache about how Yuugi was bitching about having to be the leader of the Oni's down here when she just wanted to party and get wasted.

"Yes, there's two but both are guarded and the first is used to pump the exhaust by that bird brain walking atomic bomb Utsuho Reiuji and the other is owned by the Satori sister's and the eldest one is on the warpath because her younger sister has disappeared on the surface and won't allow anyone to leave through her tunnel system till, she comes home." Yuugi groaned and just slumped onto the ground with one leg raised up so she could rest her magical Sake bowl on her knee.

Well damn... maybe I should have let Koishi Satori pass through the barrier a few days ago. But that doesn't explain why she simply doesn't use one of the other ways as Yuugi just said her and her sister basically have their own tunnel.

"Alright I will make a deal with you Oni. In return for you all treating my mountain with respect as you walk upon it. You will be given passage to walk among the path I set for you down said mountain." I said feeling generous.

"Heh that's it? Just respect the ground we walk upon. You don't want a ransom of Oni beauties as a god or want our almost divine quality tools and treasures?" She snorted in derision.

In response a massive gourd made out of clear Saphire with two seeming chambers slowly grew out of the ground with glowing purple glyphs etched into the gourd along with several gently glowing golden ropes were tied around the gourd.

I just negligently kicked the gourd aside, making Yuugi hiss at the sacrilege but my words made her face twitch in outrage. "I just made this divine gourd for the hell out of it, and it cost me all of nothing aside from a couple boulders I had to compress into the gems and with my infinite power I can enchant it with any damn effect I want. This gourd for example is conceptually tied to the concept of alcohol and will provide a slightly better form of alcohol than anywhere in Gensokyo."

For a moment I considered just crushing the gemstone gourd but as I saw it slowly filling up with the obviously divine Sake I shrugged and just teleported it beside my throne to try it out later.

"So yes, all I desire from you is respect and should your people actually worship me I can certainly provide things you couldn't imagine." I said shrugging as none of the material goods they could give would match a person who lived with modern fantasy movies/books and with the infinite power I have within my zone I can do literally anything I desire.

Other than moving my mountain unfortunately...

"Ok Lord Moria we will respect your mountain and follow the path you set for us." Yuugi shrugged seeing how she was out of her depth and just defaulted to just throwing it to the back of her mind.