Divine Chapter 39 (Patreon)

Vaermina despite being a powerful goddess equilvalent as a Daedric Prince was bound to many rules as that type of being so manifesting into the mortal realm was a massive drain on her. To say nothing of how it would be a ruinous drain for her to physically manifest upon this material plane that was still so far separated from the realm of Nirn dimensionally speaking.

Though that would change... But either way, she played her hands too early with this ham-fisted attempt at attempting to steal so many souls for her realm from the humans of this realm.

I smiled and in response bright light formed around my body until a large sun formed behind my head and from that large glowing orb that burned away the living flesh floor that kept this profane connection to her realm alive, came the goddess Amaterasu in the flesh with Vaermina screeching as the conceptual flames of Amaterasu seared the Daedric Princes soul-bound connection to this world.

"From the birth of life and the first morning to touch the world of man, I gazed upon them with the love of a mother... I may have done some regretful things like causing droughts and such but I never supped upon the souls of my followers. Worse, you don't not even gain power for it... But merely to enjoy the crunching noise their souls make as they expire." Amaterasu spoke coldly despite the dry heat of the pseudo sun brightening as the red and black flesh beneath my feet turned white as they burnt away into ash.

Vaermina however was not so willing to go peacefully as she screeched in her crone-like voice. "You dare interfere! you jumped up divine spirit! I will wring your tails from your flesh and make a coat from your tails and skin while I break your apostle's mind!" She snarled hatefully and Amaterasu didn't care for the Daedric as from the mouth that had spun silk to gift to humanity from between her teeth, divine silks bound her Deadric Artifact.

"You say much for a goddess unable to even walk their plane of existence and skulking in the shadows out of fear of the waking world and the dragon god of time that rules your world... But fear not, I am a most petulant and petty goddess, you will not need to worry about this Skull of Corruption." Amaterasu said brightly with almost affection coloring her voice despite the vicious hate that was clear in her voice as Tamamo grew from my shadow and she winked at me as she flashed into light and returned to Amaterasu to return that tail to bring her to her strongest form.

A lunging shadow of a Deadric creature lunged at us but in the powerful divine light being emitted from Amaterasu, nothing could exist beyond what she allowed as the ground turned molten under the heat of her presence with only Amaterasu's blessings to me and the other girls allowing us to stand in honest comfort as it felt like her seat was the warm sun you feel gazing upon you during a cool brisk day. "No longer will this be known as the Skull of Corruption, a tool that devours and gathers souls... Now it shall be known as the Skull of Fertility, that which with faith given to this goddess, shall provide the land in which it rests with the fecund ground with infinite life and soft storms that bring the waters of life."

Amaterasu spoke with an echo to her voice as a crushing weight filled the room and Vaermina was finally disconnected from this world as the room was purged of the heretical flesh that bound the room to the Daedric Realms.

The princesses were dead silent as Amaterasu elegantly turned back around to me with her forming fading slightly with the expenditure of her power. With a sigh one of her tails broke into motes of light that turned back into Tamamo and the single-tailed fox woman gracefully took the newly made Skull of Fertility from Amaterasu to then hand it to Princess Alexia. With Amaterasu speaking formally but not unkindly. "I have come and spent a great deal of effort to save countless souls and release them back to their bodies so the people in a coma will awaken... I hope you that such efforts will be paid in return with your mortal thoughts to return my own energies." She said basically asking for worship but then she looked to me and smiled.

"My apostle, you did well in closing that other dimensional gate, though there are more issues beyond the cults... My shard will explain but you need to go to the Lawless City." She said and although it was clear she wanted to say more but as she broke apart into motes of light with the sun hovering above us also breaking apart and dimming into nothingness I could feel Amaterasu's hollow form return to my soul showing how much effort she went into beating back Vaermina from the world.

I took a breath as Tamamo and Alpha stood beside me and we looked to Alexia who was holding the golden glowing humanoid skull kinda awkwardly as it was clear she had no idea what to do with it. "Alexia." I spoke up making her hands holding the clearly heavy artifact shudder and my body twitched at the thought of her breaking the artifact but thankfully she didn't drop it as she got ahold of it. "Should you or Iris, have questions come to speak to me or my own at my church as I have much to do now," I said with a small frown as I wondered what I needed to do in the Lawless City... Especially when I had that fat asshole who had assuredly cracked that I needed to get information from about the Cult of Diabolos to clean them up.