Bellia was impatiently tapping her foot, which started to piss me off.

  You’re a god, you don’t need our help. Just go do it yourself if you don’t like waiting.

  “Our skill set isn’t as specialized as the tailed beasts. When will she wake up?”

  She will wake up when she does.

  Raishin, Greg and Noelle had left with Della. Giana, Yv and I were stuck with this shrimpy. We had promised to meet back up near Boshi Hole after we finished our business due to reasons.

  Bellia, how much do you know of the merging of the 5th dimension?

  “I was there when it happened, what of it?”

  We just came from a city that had been built for the races that joined in the 6th merge. I’m wondering what races joined when the 5 th dimension merged.

  “Wait, how do you know that the most recent one was the 6 th ?”

  Does goddess of chaos, Chiara ring a bell?

  “Hey… this isn’t a threat but genuine concern. Please keep that information to yourself. Other deities will target you for knowing that. I…don’t know if I should tell you this.”

  Because we will stop doing our role if we know?

  Thick vines grew out of the ground and created an enormous dome around us. It was filled with divine energy, so it was unlikely that we could get out easily.

  Yv got ready for a fight.

  “Relax rabbit, I don’t want to fight. You…how much do you know? And how do you know?”

  Well if you guys wanted to hide something like this, you should have done a better job. See these are the mana runes native to most races, including humans.

  I said as I showed off magic circles with mana runes that were ‘common’.

  These here are mana runes that have an over 90% occurrence rate in tailed beasts and elves.

  I showed off magic circles with mana runes that belonged to the ‘5 th ’ as I would call it now.

  And I might not have caught all of them, but these are consistent under the races that had recently joined.

  I just made some dummy circles with mana runes from the ‘6 th ’

  Now you know the role of the 9t and fairies have been plaguing this planet until quite recently and all extradimensional creatures use mana runes that could be regarded as a mark of their origin. So why would the tailed beasts have different mana runes from the common races, surely not because we’re mythical. The mythical race from the 6 th has the same mana runes as the common races.

  Bellia sighed. “We thought that we wiped out all evidence of that… You’re correct but… if you guys stop, everything dies with you in it.”

  So we got held hostage? Work or die with the place that holds our races hostage? Was the 5 th merger an accident or intentional? Heck was the recent merge an accident or intentional?

  “I don’t know about the recent one. It caught me by surprise. I’m not sure about the 5 th , but… it might have been intentional…” Bellia didn’t seem happy. Was she unhappy to reveal this, or did she feel guilty? Her specialty could allow her to be opposed to those events. She did get pissed at tomato bitch for wiping out species, after all…

  Did you perhaps oppose the idea or the fact that happened?

  “I didn’t think that our current system works. It was falling apart… but then suddenly a merge happened and races appeared that could help stabilize it. It looked suspicious to me, and those poor races were worked to death… even now. Of course, I was opposed to it but… I had no choice as everything was falling apart...”

  Yv raised her hand. “What happened to the mythical races that were here before us?”

  Bellia got even more depressed. Maybe I was a bit too harsh on her. She is probably the deity that will help us the most when we truly get to extinction levels.

  “They…they didn’t make it. They had the role to mediate between mortals and gods. The stupid wars that bitch kept waging against Walter and her crusades wiped them all out. The humans got the feeling those races were on the god's side and the gods got the feeling they were on the human’s side, so they got hit from both sides. There was nothing I could do.” She said and fell into depression.

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  A pitiful god but in a different way now.

  “But Bellia…maybe I missed something, but that doesn’t sound as if those races were able to keep the dimension intact.” Yv remarked.

  “That’s right… that’s why I think someone or something brought in the 5 th dimension. I suspect that this recent one had a similar goal; to bring in more mythical races to work to death. But I have no evidence. I don’t even know who could do this. Maybe Chiara in her unsplit state, but they’ve been split up and hard at work even before I existed…”

  Any chance she’s deceiving you in that? Her specialties are similar to 9t right?

  “Well, that’s a possibility but she would be able to fix this mess easily if she combined. Maybe accidentally create several new ones but fixing this should be a piece of cake if she did combine…”

  “Why doesn’t she do that?” Yv, asked.

  Probably because she will create messes like this by just existing if she does. As far as I know, she wants to avoid that, but that might have been deception too.

  “I’m sorry. I will try to keep my temper in check, will you guys please help us?”

  What do you think, Deca? Are you ready?

  “As long as you stay near me, sure.” Giana said as she got up.

  “Hey! How long was she awake!” Bellia said as she pointed.

  Giana smiled maliciously. “Since you appeared, you surely don’t think a vixen can stay asleep while you gods sloppily throw divine energy around, do you?”

  And it would be quite hard to get answers out of you when you’re so hellbent on fixing the forest.

  I gave Giana a high-five.

  “Calm down Bellia, they’re foxes… this is normal…” Bellia took deep breaths and controlled herself. “Can you foxes promise me one thing? When that bitch appears, give her a worse headache than you gave me.”

  Giana and I gave a thumbs up, and the moody goddess had been placated.

  Hey, Bellia. My opinion of you has improved. We will keep this up for a bit longer, but I’m warning you. If our roles put pressure on my teammates; I will rebel and you guys won’t like it. This is not directed at you, but at the other deities. Tell them to not make things harder for us if they want a place to live in.

  “That is understandable. I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to be in your shoes…I can't… even after helping rabbits in Nesher, I still can’t. Maybe gods aren’t meant to understand other races…”

  “That actually makes a lot of sense.”

  Bellia shot Giana a glare but then softened up. “Yeah, maybe it does…”

  So about the native mythical races, is it possible that they could split themselves up?

  “You’ve found one!?”

  It was just a question, but that sounds like a ‘yes’.

  “You found out all of that by studying mana runes?”

  That and some misfortune. At least I got some answers. Thank you Bellia, I will do my best to be nicer but…

  I glanced at Bellia who looked like a preteen and was wearing a silly cape.

  A bit difficult if you look like that. And that cape! Hahaha! Yv, can’t you do something about that?!

  “If you mind Bellia? Agnis, can you give me the fabric I need?” Yv asked as she measured up the midget.

  Sure.

  Yv finished moments later and gave Bellia a normal attire. Just some jeans and a sweater.

  “Huh? Wow this is comfortable! These tailed races are always full of surprises. I have another question, actually. Agnis… what did you do that Rot brat? She’s currently in the divine realm and acts… differently.”

  Rot brat? Hablena? Nothing why?

  “She…has changed a lot….I guess you didn't do anything… Are you guys ready? I want to show off this outfit to Della!”

  Such a kid… but I’m ready.

  “I’m ready too! But… Yv is probably going to do the most here.”

  Well, that’s why I’m ready because I don’t have to do anything!

  “That’s fine! It’s time that I fulfill my role! Show us where this forest is!” Yv said excitedly.

  Hmm wait… Cnidaria forest was in the Igrini Kingdom but… it got annexed by Bizax….

  “Oh no…” Giana and I looked at Bellia.

  “What? Bizax annexed the Igrini Kingdom?! When?!”

  Classic god behavior. Well then let’s get ready to clash with tomato goddess and Zack… it seems 9t are needed after all.

  Bellia lifted the dome of vines around us, and we went off to the Igrini Kingdom! Ehh Bizax! She had some stupidly slow transportation method, so I grabbed her and dashed off.

  “I can see why Biian wants your fur…” She said as she stroked my tail.

  Do you want me to drop you?

  “I apologize…”

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