Netori: Stealing The Hero's Party!

However, the stark contrast between his size and Raven\'s had already trampled on that possibility, leaving no girls from their group to give him a chance even if he begged on his knees.

\'Ughhh…If he truly dies without breeding, all that potential will be for naught.\' Watching the situation closely while Amedith tired himself to bed and Raven was enjoying the night with two beautiful women, Athenia wanted to do something about the whole situation.

\'A magus\'s child, there have been wars to control such children, to mold them into a nation\'s treasure, and yet, here we land, where the last of them can\'t carry his genes forward.\'

"Possibly the inbreeding didn\'t help, but it was the only way to keep their bloodline pure," talking to herself in a gold-laid sauna, Athenia grabbed a mocktail out of a tray held by her clone. Dressed in nothing but a towel and sweating like the sun was right above her, the goddess, much like the party during their visit at the maze, was taking some time to destress herself.

"What to do? What to do?" She wondered, her free hand browsing through the scenes from Nerva as though she were shopping remotely. "A girl that Raven can\'t take, but one that would also not mind being with a feminine man."

"I heard they call them Femboy on Earth," chimed her clone, chuckling lightly to herself. "Or sissies, but the other word\'s loved more."

"Remind me when I gave a shit about Earth," Athenia responded, and a sudden flick of time took her a few seconds back. Bewildered by what just happened, she glanced over to her smiling clone who\'d just taken her words back by rewinding a few seconds of time. "What did you just do?"

"Just adhering to my mistress\'s command, and since you would never give a shit about…" Faking a cough, the clone leaned closer to Athenia\'s face. "That world, I decided to take my words back so I never reminded you at all."

"If the other gods find out that my clone is messing with the timeline, we\'d both be fucked throughout space-time," Athenia complained, although the clone didn\'t much care. Scoffing at her own stupidity just to spite her victim, Athenia dismissed her clone into a puddle of liquid gold. "I should stop talking to myself, it\'s more trouble than it\'s worth."

Dismissing all her other clones, except for the one torturing her brother, Athenia got out of the sauna with sweat dripping all over her. Her mind still raced about the problem with Amedith, but she eventually came to a solution although it could further complicate things down there.

\'Another faerie? Someone who can actually love him and his tiny cock.\' Walking up her throne\'s steps, she blinked her eyes once and a pair of dark wings appeared on her back. Then as she blinked again, her usual white veils appeared, but then quickly turned a dark gray.

"Ahhh~ It feels so good to be back in my body," no longer pretending to be her mother, Athenia\'s eyes changed from a deep blue to a hazy grey. Taking more and more from her father\'s side, she turned into a gothic goddess that could rain down plagues with every breath.

And though her appearance and makeup changed drastically, her body remained nearly the same as she\'d inherited the goddess of fertility and bounty. "Now to get back to work."

Sitting down on her throne, Athenia\'s dark lips stretched into a crescent smile. Reaching into time with her hand, she planted but a seed–a child not far from Amedith\'s grasp.

A faerie born within the woods, and captured by the lamia, none of it had happened before she defiled the laws of the heavens, but now that it was done, a half-devil fae child was waiting to be rescued by her knight on a white horse.

"I told you," teased a voice in Athenia\'s head, it almost felt mocking since the hint to do what she\'d done was dropped by her identical clone. "And I told you to shut the fuck up."

Following a distant chuckle in her head, the battle with herself concluded. Her clone, however, sassy they may be had, they\'d helped her come up with a plan once more. Although, the plan itself was bound to rattle the heavenly council, because if there were some laws that all gods followed, then reaching back in time was definitely at the top of the list.

\'Doubt they\'ll send another god my way, they must\'ve learned their lesson after their hound dog never returned from my prison. Which only leaves…\' Bringing up the seeing screen, Athenia watched over Raven\'s party once more. \'They\'ll come after my chosen, maybe even send their own chosen to fend them off.\'

The attempt to negotiate with other gods might\'ve gotten a bit more difficult with Athenia\'s new plans. But even so, preserving the magus bloodline, was something she had no regrets about. After all, sooner or later, Amedith would be with her as a demi-god on her council, and if a magus and his children were on her side, it would be far too easy to pin rival gods under her thumb.

"May your children be plenty under the watchful gaze of Stellaris–the stars, Atlaria–the land, the Infernal, and the Divine." Casting down her blessing, Athenia shut her eyes for the night.