The signs of battle were a warning to Alex and Nix that there were more people and not just the party that entered before them.

If that wasn't the case, then there was infighting, which, in both people's opinion, was probably not the case.

They were careful with their approach and were on high alert by now. They carefully went about their path and searched for food and water.

Meanwhile…

…..

Elysium.

"Chuuuuu! So boring! So boring!" A Goddess with golden hair was pouting while staring at a screen.

She was lying down on a big soft bed and kicking her own butt with her heels.

The room she was in was blindingly bright and contained a golden hue to it.

There was a pair of white wings on the goddess' back and it was neither too big nor too short, just the perfect size.

Despite the bad mood the Goddess was in, the aura of around her was serene and everything was tranquil.

The Goddess was not though. She was really annoyed right now.

Getting up and once again staring at the big screen in her room with her piercing blue eyes, the Goddess clicked her tongue.

"So boring, so stupid. I don't want to play with these things anymore!"

The Goddess extended her wings out and disappeared from her room after saying that.

Far away from the place of the white-winged Goddess, there lay a realm full of clocks.

Instead of stars in the void of space, there were clocks. Rusty ancient clocks of various different sizes and colors adorned this realm and some had time running forwards while some had time running backwards and some with still time.

In this realm, right on a big still clock showing exactly three o'clock, a Goddess was sleeping soundly.

The hour hand was big and wide enough for her to sleep and this was one of the clocks that didn't have its time moving.

As she lay asleep, the white-winged Goddess arrived right in her realm and said while kicking the clock, "Wake up, you lazy watchman."

The clock shook and the Goddess fell down, crashing down on the bottom of the clock.

"What the—"

Being woken up so rudely, the Goddess looked around with an angry gaze, only to see a certain golden head white doll-like face looking at her.

"What's wrong with you, Lumina? I finally got the chance to sleep and here you are," the Goddess complained.

"Your sleeping has caused some clocks to have their time run backwards, Ava."

"What?" The Goddess looked alone, only to see that such was indeed the case.

"Oh, no!" She exclaimed.

"Leave it, don't worry," Lumina said. "There's much more important matters at hand."

"What? What could be more important?"

"Just come with me, I'll let you know everything."

Saying so, Lumina dragged Ava away.

The clocks that had their time run backwards eventually exploded one by one. Some clocks split apart and turned into new ones with proper time while some came to a standstill after Ava was gone.

…..

The Divine Hall, Elysium.

Around a big round table, there were fifteen divine beings sitting.

Beneath them was the boundless ever-expanding cosmos and at about now, they had a confused expression on their faces.

The golden-haired Goddess, Lumina, the very concept of Light itself, got up from her seat and walked at a raised platform.

There, she made a screen appear out of thin air and showed the live stream of Alex and Nix in the dungeon.

"Sisters and big sisters, I have something very very important to say today."

"Lumi-chan, if you try to break the rules, I'll hit your butt," said Scarlett while leisurely lounging on her chair.

"It is exactly what I am going to do, big sis. But here me out first." Lumina said.

"Alright, go on."

Lumina showed everyone their husband and their sister Fi-chan doing their things.

Surprisingly, she then showed the video of their husband with Lucielle, then with Nicole, and then finally that one incident of Marcelle saving Alex's life.

"As you can see from here, husband is doing stupid stuff. I do not like this and I do not find this fun. Before you tell me about my opinion not mattering, let me tell you, I know for a fact that once husband comes back and looks at these memories, he'll find them awfully boring as well."

The Goddesses were silent.

For the first time, this pervert was speaking something sensible , so they all listened quietly.

Lumina, being in a completely serious mood, continued, "These are so awfully boring, so so much that I hate it. Look, they're thinking of cars, money, blah blah blah. Where's the action? Where's the conflict? Where's the spice?"

Lumina then showed a few more things and continued, "The only noteworthy thing that might, I repeat might, happen with his time there is that there will be an apocalypse where otherworldly beings attack. That's it."

"It's also bloody tens of hundreds of years away! Baaaaaah! I'll die of desperation by then! When will my turn come? When will any of you sisters' turns come?"

Lumina was the last in the list, right at the 17th place. It was understandable as to why she was so angry and seemingly appearing so desperate.

Usually she was a mature perverted lady type figure, but now she seems like an angry horny teenager just because of lacking attention from their husbands.

It was understandable too.

Beings of their level needed very little to get going. If that very little thing was also going to be taken away, they'd be really very mad, just like how Lumina was right now.

"I don't care anymore, I want to go down. No, not just me, I want all of us to go down. He wants a challenge? We'll give him a challenge. We'll all beat some sense into him and drag him back to Elysium and spend eternity, forever locked in one room, doing unholy things together!"

Yup, Lumina had truly gone mad.

She didn't have the ability to speak bad words, even though she was the most perverted among all, but her anger was still visible.

And even in her rage, whatever she was saying still made some sense.

Lumina turned to look at the white-haired Goddess with golden eyes, Athena.

"Athy sis, you are Wisdom, you definitely can find loopholes, right? Why don't you find it and why don't you take us all down? I am so so tired! So very much tired!"

Lumina had a habit of repeating the same words or sentences twice in her anger. This was in the place of curse words since she really didn't have the ability to curse and could only say one sentence twice to convey the effect.

Athena could feel her sister's worries. She didn't blame her for acting like this as she understood her. Deep down, she too felt something similar.

Actually, everyone could feel Lumina. Their love for their husband was so much that they really couldn't live without him even for a day.

However, they were trying to be good wives and wanted to heed to their husband's wishes.

Every Goddess turned to look at Athena as Lumina said that.

Athena sighed. "It's not that there are no loopholes, it's just that… things would go really very wrong. Just for the sake of a few small things, we'll put the lives of all beings in the universe at risk."

"I don't care!" Lumina kicked the screen away. She was really angry. "Put everybody at risk, it doesn't matter. Everything can be restored. If nobody will help restore, I'll do everything myself!"

"Calm down, Lumi," Athena said.

She got up from her seat and went to Lumina's side, giving her a hug. "Calm down, I totally understand you."

Lumina's eyes moistened up right as she got hugged. "Athy sis… sniff… it's so wrong…"

Lumina began crying after saying so.

"There, there…" Athena patted her back.

This poor girl just couldn't live without their husband for long periods of time.

For the whole cosmos, she may be their Light they were looking for, but for her, the only source of light keeping her going was their husband.

Of course, there were her sisters too, but for Lumina, the love of their husband was at the top. It was above everything, even the children in the universe.

"I'll find something, Lumi, don't cry. Please?" Athena said softly.

"Sniff…" Lumina's eyes were red but she nodded her head in understanding and went to sit on her chair.

Before she could sit though, she was caught by Scarlett and hugged tightly like the doll she was.

Scarlett had her sit on her lap and hugged her tightly.

Lumina didn't complain and just rested in her big sister's embrace. She really needed a hug right now.

The other Goddesses simply sighed at Lumina's suffering. They could totally understand her, you know?

If it wasn't for the fact that they were really very strong mentally, much more than Lumina, they would've broken down as well like her.

Athena pulled out a big ancient paper and a slim stick out of nowhere.

She then tapped the front of the paper with it and said, "What husband had said us was this…"

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