CH522 Nare’s Reaction

The three of them were trapped under a crushing force that none were used to feeling when in Nare’s presence. Any time any of them had been up there in the past, there’d always been some, it was hard to escape the strength of a powerful god, but never to such an extent before, with Nare not caring to even try and hold back as he quietly stared at them all, thinking on where to begin.

It was only a few more minutes until the feeling of divinity began to let up, though not from any improvements to the god’s mood and not one of them dared to speak up when his anger was still so clear, left to wait to see what he’d have to say.

“Zallith, you are my head priest, are you not?”

The words were cold despite his lava-like form, making Zallith shrink into himself.

“I am, my lord.”

“Then why was someone I personally invited not treated with the utmost courtesy?”

“I, I let my judgment be clouded,” The priest said in his weak defense, stumbling over his words as he went. “But the way I saw him treat Eneth-”

“Do you worship Eneth or do you worship me.”

It wasn’t a question, they both knew the answer, but it still struck Zallith like a blow.

“You! You, of course!”

“Then it couldn’t matter less how he treats other gods when he has my approval. Even though you aren’t learning from him, you will be accommodating during the rest of his time here, do I make myself clear?”

All the priest could do was nod, a deep, intense horror to have provoked this sort of reaction from the one he worshiped lodged within him that the god could sense before he addressed the next of them.

“Xilly… I’m honestly not sure where to begin with you.”

“Who dies from a leg wound?” She asked in her defense. “It was completely unbelievable.”

“There are an untold number of body structures on this world. You’re a healer as well as an enchanter, if someone says they are going to die, you’ll work to treat them, no questions asked. Even if he wasn’t going to die, that was no small injury. You should have helped him regardless.”

She fell silent at that, leaving room for another sigh to escape Nare. “Frankly, there’s a lot I want to say about how you’d been treating him while he’s been here, but unfortunately, it’s confused me as much as anything else. Even if he was a polygamist, why would that be so terrible?”

“…I believe it’s just a holdover from my homeworld.”

“And that’s what’s causing me the most issues with understanding. I see you have your thoughts on your friend’s marriage, but she’s not even the only one of your kind to enter that sort of relationship. There’s at least one other who’s acting as an adventurer whose party is composed entirely of his lovers, possibly more too, but I haven’t looked deeply enough to be sure.”

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