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Chapter 2

  Tiinra looked down at the woman. Normally she didn't care much about those that didn't follow her faith. At least not paid them much mind. Not that she disliked anyone or didn't want good health and life on them. More like they were background noise rather than a person she held the conversation with. It wasn't like mortals were beneath her notice, she did bless quite a few people. Priests and priestesses of her faith, good people that got her notice. Her husband is quite selective in comparison. He normally only blesses those who dispenses justice and keeps the order, no matter if they're his followers or not. Even his own followers don't always get his blessing. More merit than devotion.

  "Lets help this mortal out a little shall we? Gift of life from me and justice for her summoning. No?"

  Kim stared at the blue screen in front of her. This was getting absurd. More absurd than the situation she already found herself in. Like; what the heck!? She groaned loudly and clasped her head only to prick her finger on the obsidian shard sticking out from her head. How was she even alive with this thing sticking out from her head? She closed her eyes and focused on herself. On her head and the shard. What she saw made her open her eyes wide in shock and horror before throwing up. The bloody thing was poking her brain! The question of how she even was alive came back up again in full force. She had thought that it was just protruding from her skull like the horns. But no, it was receiving and sending signals directly to and from her brain.

  Kim was sitting on the ground clutching her head, rocking back and forth as her breathing started going out of control. Her heart pounding like a jackhammer as she stared into space. This crap could not be real. This situation was already messed up. She frantically stared around her for anything that could potentially bump into her and thus send the shard rocketing into her brain. Her hazy mind didn't realize that she had felt no pain touching the shard. Nether had it budged a single millimeter when touched. All she could think about was how to get the bloody shard out of her head without killing her.

  Suddenly she felt a calming aura descending on her mind. Like if this was nothing to worry about. A voice called out from inside herself that if it was so dangerous then she would be dead already. That she would have died in her sleep due to her rolling nature. That she would have died when she touched it before. It was like someone spoke to her from within, with a calm and collected voice. She could 'feel' that it was herself speaking to her, her other self. The character that she had become. Her logical and cold mind was spilling into Kim's own. While it terrified Kim, of what that might mean in the future, for now at least it was helping her.

  Slowly she looked at the number of screens that she had missed while in her panicked state.

  Kim blinked several times until she caught up with what had happened. Two Gods of this world had blessed her? Why? What was their game? What did they stand to gain from giving her their blessing? Not only that, Gods existed. Sure it was all magical and fantasy here, but it's kinda nice, and scary, to have it confirmed. But still. Why? She could not figure it out. Perhaps they were just bored and hoped that she would do something interesting? She had read enough novels that it might be a real possibility in this world. And she didn't think that they would explain themselves anytime soon anyway. OK, time to get started with that starter race selection. She thought about the subject and another window popped up.

  Now this was one mighty hard choice for Kim. While undead would be the perfect workforce, never tiring or needing repairs like Automatons probably would; would undead be accepted in this world? In most worlds and fictions she had read, undead were the bane of life and most would hunt them down when able. And since there was at least two Gods in this world there was no telling if there were more of them around. And perhaps a few of them or at least their servants really hated the undead. So while she really wanted to choose them, she probably would not. Perhaps she could learn some necromancy somewhere else later on.

  Automatons though were a legit choice. Another workforce that did not tire. Something that could easily be adapted to suit her needs and wants. And if she got far enough down the tech-tree perhaps she could actually have some proper robots and AI running around. But on the other hand, simple Automatons should be easy to build with her skills and knowledge. Perhaps if she created one then she would just learn how to make and improve them later.

  Angels and daemons, especially daemons suffer from the same problem as undead. Other people. When Kim had been summoned they had called her a daemon and attacked on sight. So perhaps it's not a good option. But it did mention in the option that daemons were extremely strong if their were focused right. Their wants and desires, was it? But angels were also powerful enough in their own right. And what was that about 'redacted'? Some hidden race or something that does not exist any longer?

  Humanoids. Where to even start. It was more or less perfect. Unless she was in a really racist...oh who was she kidding, of course it would be racist as hell here. Probably a lot of slavery as well. She had only seen humans in that throne room after all, part from one servant looking person. So if nothing else they're elitist in this place. The fact that she didn't know if there was only one nation in the world, or if all non-humans were servants, or if it was just here made choosing a non-human precarious. She didn't think that she had flown so far away that it would turn into humans being servants in wherever she was currently residing.

  "Fuck...they all have their own pros and cons. I can probably exclude animals, plants and goblins though. They should, hopefully, be easy enough to gather through other means. Even if my own creatures can not leave the dungeon, hopefully I'll be able to without any problems." She rubbed her chin and cheek in contemplation for a while. "Undead probably has to go due to the whole, 'everyone hates em', factor. Fae would be good scouts but it's not powerful enough for me when I can have other things scouting for me. Automatons I should be able to build, hopefully. At least machinery that my other races can operate would be good enough." Kim sighed deeply before choosing humans and angels as her starting races.

  Suddenly two flashing lights appeared in front of her. They then split into four independent beams of light before disappearing and leaving behind four young children. Two males and two females. "Greeting mother, we have come to serve the dungeon!" They all said in unison.

  "Ahh crap..."

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