Touhou/Mountain God Chapter 58 Alt POV (Patreon)

For the last few weeks, The Great Dungeon of Orario had been the biggest thorn in the eyes of the gods and various other supernatural of the world. Due to Moria's game-breaking actions, humanity was hardly their lesser anymore with how they could literally level up and enhance themselves down to their very essence as each level was a uniform increase to the strength of their being rather than being artificial.

Gods and others had empowered humans to great power before many a time in the prior years... But it was fake, a handout that could be pulled back at the will of the capricious gods. But Moria's system... Was immutable to their divine hands.

To say nothing of the sheer fury they felt being utterly denied any chance to get within the sub-realm of Orario and its Dungeon as well.

And thus hearing of Moria opening the realm for the supernatural to finally join. There was a lot of mixed reactions.

The Devil's assured of their natural superiority while in the Underworld only saw it as a chance to get high-end materials that came from the monsters and were directly sourced from the dungeons ever restoring surroundings. And most importantly to scout for strong humans that they could try to invite into their peerages.

As no longer were the devils entirely hunting for Sacred Gear wielders or otherwise special bloodline holders. Now there were people with special Jobs or classes that could do great and powerful things and didn't rely on a Sacred Gear that had special requirements to use.

The only issues the Devils faced in the recruitment of these humans was simple yet utterly infuriating to the old and arrogant devils, and a well of frustration with the hasty and proud younger devils. The simple fact that Orario had two simple services in that you get if you were a human converted into a devil. You could get your Evil Piece removed and allowed entry into Orario as per the norm. And then if you wanted to leave Orario, you could be teleported almost anywhere on Earth that you wanted to make a new life upon.

The Fallen Angels had three branches within them, the first being the Watchers wanted to earnestly partner with humanity hero's and guide them to gaining further strength with their well of experience of millennia after falling from loving humanity too much and falling into Lust. The Second being the Eye's who wanted to watch and study the growth of humanity into a race that matched their own species in power with many times the potential growth speed.

And lastly the Blades of the Grigori. They were torn on using or strengthening humanity as they had fallen out of bloodlust as they killed too many devils, fallen, and other entities during the Great War and beyond. So they were honestly unsure how to deal with humanity's growth.

The last of the Abrahamic faith was the Church and Devils. The churches across the world spat upon the idea of Moria being a god and giving humanity poisoned gifts as was the norm from heretical false gods... That still didn't stop them from sending disposable exorcists and orphans into Orario to gain strength to be used as shock troops that would die against powerful supernatural beings. But... Oddly enough, several upper Bishops and Priests within the Vatican and other churches were mysteriously found dead having asphyxiated via a pumpkin having formed over their heads perfectly somehow.

The Angels however had for the last couple of weeks completely shut themselves off in the heavens. Past the pearly gates, no one knew what the lights of the Abrahamic God were up to. As only the pure souls of their believers were allowed into Heaven, no angels had left since the killing of Cao Cao and the breaking of Khao Brigades Hero Faction.

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"No Kunou... You can't go to Orario." Yasaka the leader of the civilized Yokai of Japan tiredly told her daughter who puffed up her cheeks cutely with nine tails going standing stiffly behind her.

"But Mooommm!" She whined and Yasaka sighed as Kunou continued. "I need to go to Orario to get a spark of divinity for Amaterasu... She literally stole my Gameboy and erased my Pokemon save file with a shiny starter! I want that useless Neet gone!"

The beautiful mother carefully took a deep breath as she massaged her forehead before she spoke consolingly to her treasured daughter. "My dear, Amaterasu is our ancestor. And head god of our Pantheon. We need to give her some time to... Accilmate to her state of being without her divinity and domains." Yasaka finished with her lips twitching as she recalled the once proud and imperial Sun Goddess bawling with the ugliest tears imaginable after said 'goddess' tried sun tanning to get some measure of power.

Only to end up with terrible sun burns across her smooth pale skin.

A Sun Goddess. The previously strongest sun diety getting sun burns...

It was no surprise that Amaterasu had somewhat mentally broken down after being beaten like an unwanted stepchild by Moria and then had her divinity ripped out from her body leaving only her divine immortality.

"Mother... I love you." Kunou said with determination and Yasaka's lips twitched Kunou continued in a deeper utterly serious voice. "But I have trained for this. I have many skills that I will use to do what I must, and in the end, I will accomplish this mission without failure."

Yasaka bluntly retorted. "Stop copying movies for cringe lines."

Kunou just laid back on the ground and rolled around while Yasaka snorted as Kunou whined about the useless goddess who was stealing her snacks that she hid around the castle while Yasaka hid a smile behind a elegant hand as in reality she was using the goddess as a patsy to teach her daughter responsibility in taking care of a... Pet of sorts.

Finally, though Kunou managed to extract a promise from her mother that she would go to Orario with a local human girl whom Kunou knew was working in Orario making potions to sell to adventurers for good money.