Divine Chapter 16 Commissioned by Asriels (Patreon)

"Stupid bimbo elf." I cursed as I woke back up with both my body and soul healed from Ereshkigal's lap pillow of a nap. With Ereshkigal healing my soul my God's Hand naturally refilled its charge after being used but I was clearly out for a couple of hours so it wasn't something I could remotely use within in battle.

But I was pissed... Fucking stupid Beatrix wouldn't even let me speak and when I had the audacity not to roll over to her demands she literally killed me.

"I am going to kick her ass next time." I groaned as I sat up and in response to my words, I felt Scathach within my soul send a feeling of pride seemingly at my determination to get back at Beatrix for my defeat.

While I sat up I noticed I was in the back of a carriage and as I looked out I saw a caged carriage being pulled behind us Beta's face lit up as she saw me sitting up in the carriage. "Girls stop the cart, Jake is up!" Beta called out and I groaned as I heard Delta cry out in delight, and before I knew it I had the black-haired young beauty giving me a bear hug worthy of being blessed by Herakles.

"Can't breathe Delta!" I said as my face turned red with the back popping force in Delta's hug as she rubbed her nose into my shirt as though she could force my scent directly into her brain.

Zeta, and Beta just stood leaning against the carriage as they watched with a sly smile as I attempted to push Delta off of me ineffectively with how Delta was shamelessly using both her Herakles blessing and her own magic to bear hug me with her arms and legs so I couldn't get her off!

"Zeta! Help me or she is going start drooling on my shirt!" I cried out as Delta giggled at how dramatic I was being but Zeta just rolled her eyes and didn't get in the way.

"Jake, we picked up three more people with Demon Possession and we need you to cure them so we can dump this slower cart." Beta said more seriously and I gave up on throwing Delta off me and instead just like pushed her around so instead of bear hugging me around my front she was instead on my back so I could actually walk around easier.

"Alright let me just get used to my new heavy backpack ack Delta!" I cried as Delta bit the corner of my ear and growled.

"Grr! Don't call Delta heavy! Delta may be a beastkin and knows she is skinny. But Jake  should never call a girl heavy!" Delta cried out making me giggle at how indignant she sounded but either way I stood up with my wolf girl backpack that refused to get off of me as I threw off the drape holding the other carriage to check it out and the people within it.

"Huh, good job finding three people right?" I asked unsurely as the mass of misshapen flesh in the carriage was kinda distinguishable but the masses of flesh had been obviously forced to fit in the carriage as they were compressed against one another. "Well, either way, let's get down to it," I said pushing my hand through the bars of the cage that surrounded the carriage to lay my hands on the people locked within the carriage.

After quickly transforming the trio of girls back to themselves I now had two darker-haired girls and a girl with light blue hair and I obviously recognized them as the last three of the Seven Shadows in canon being the three elves Gamma, Eta, and Epsilon.

Honestly, it was kind of weird how none of the higher-ranking Shadow Garden members except for the main character were actually human with none of the human 'numbers' or lower-level gaslit orphans being all too powerful.

"Alright, girls here are some clothes to cover yourself with," I said transmuting the tarp that went over the cage into some dresses for them to cover themselves with so that once we got back to the church they could find better-fitting stuff.

"Uhm what's your name?" The dark-haired more developed girl spoke and I told the trio my name and what I had been doing, giving them the whole spiel about the Curse of Diabolos, the Three Heros, and the Cult of Diabolos. Then I gave the girls their new names and surprise surprise they all decided to take new names.

So the most developed girl became Gamma as that was who she was and was the only name I could call her in my head, Eta the sleepy elf that once she threw on her dress just laid her head in my lap to go back to sleep and lastly I gave Epsilon the light blue haired elf her new name.

"So what was your native world like?" Eta asked slowly as she looked up at me from my lap and I heard Zeta growl at the elf from beside me as she scowled at me and the girl for allowing this new girl to use her cat nap spot on my lap.

I just shrugged as my world wasn't that interesting unless there was in fact some kind of super supernatural world hiding in the background of the world so I didn't bother making up some nonsense and just said my world was boring with no monsters or magic but we made up for that with our technology and other stuff.

At the mention of a different world's technology Eta's eyes lit up and I mentally groaned as I recalled how Eta was a complete mad scientist who was capable of making mecha's and doing crazy shit just with a guideline of how science is supposed to work. Much emphasis on the whole 'how science is supposed to' she didn't care for the laws of reality when she had magic to force things her way.

"Lady Alpha is coming." Delta said perking up from across me with her nose twitching at catching Alpha's scent while meanwhile, Beta took over driving the cart. So I gently moved Eta off my lap... And her groan was like a teenager when you pop open the blinds during the weekend and demand them to mow the lawn, take out all the trash in the house, do the Thanksgiving dishes, and finally clean out the oven after the baked potatoes exploded the night before and your parents left the mess to harden into cement and didn't bother telling you.

Her groan was honestly a story in of itself and no I wasn't basing her groan on something that happened in my past life and I wanted to call that day abuse or anything... No not at all.