Dungeon Tour Guide 3: A LitRPG Adventure by Aaron Shih

Author:Aaron Shih [Shih, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Lucas

The goddess spoke to me for the first time since the Cataclysm while I was trying to coax myself into getting a class.

As it turned out, dealing with the people who were worshipping me was no less awkward in person than it was observing them from afar. More awkward, if anything. Mostly, I asked them what they were doing, and then they had me say a few words of encouragement.

I did start to get a better idea of what they were doing, at least. They weren’t worshipping me because they truly believed I was a being on the scale of the goddess or anything—no, instead, it was just because I was the first powerful figure that had treated them with true kindness in their lives.

Given how little I’d done for them, that was really, really sad.

Goddess, you think this is enough? I thought, watching over them as I bid them a good remainder of their session. Consistent food, shelter, and eliminating the Sword of Damocles from above their head. Is that too much to ask?

“I would make a better god than you,” I whispered. “I know you’re listening. You’re always listening.”

No response.

“Did you feel like you were close to a revelation or anything?” Anton asked. “I don’t remember how you flavored multiclasses when we had them.”

“Neither do I," I replied. “I think I just let you guys do it.”

“Shame. I don’t think the same applies here.”

“Nope,” I said. “Maybe I need more followers. If I can convert people away from the goddess, maybe I can get an alternate class? Something like [Heretic]. Or maybe I can actually do what you suggested and become a god.”

“You’re close enough to one already,” Anton said. “It’s not too many steps from this to actual godhood.”

“Well, I’m doing better than she is at taking care of my followers, I think,” I said.

That was what sent the goddess over the line.

She had, in fact, been listening.

[You are no god. You will never be a god.]

“Welp,” I said to Anton, “the goddess is angry with me now.”

“She wasn’t already? I sort of assumed the ‘kill this guy now’ quest meant that she was.”

We were still at twenty-one days left on the ticker, but time was running out. I tried asking the goddess for hints, but she was clearly in no mood to deal with me.

Huh. I’d started conceptualizing her as a person. As an overly moody teenager, really. I wondered what had triggered the change. When I’d come to this world, the goddess had seemed like an unapproachable deity. Even the way she spoke brought that to mind. Every sentence was a riddle, and every word was infused with power.

Now, though, while her words were no less powerful, the words she put that power into were angrier. I felt the human emotion in them.

That made me wonder. From what I’d read, the goddess had had her bouts of being temperamental in the past, interspersed with long, serene periods where she was closer to what she’d been like a year ago.

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