I opened my eyes to find myself back in the temple.

Off to the side, Minnera was still painting and it looks like the other Trasifs had returned to their normal duties and were working around the three of us and keeping their distance.

Now I feel a little bad for them since we basically barged into a place where we weren't supposed to.

Oh well, what's done is done.

Also, just for the record, I did not put a shock collar on Drebann or Srii. Which brings me to the fact that I felt something solid in my hand.

I looked down to realise that it was the same button that Hiandoca had given me.

She really gave me the button to her shock collar…

I pressed it, just to see if it would work.

'Ahhhnnn~~ More, Aster~ I've been a really bad fuck toy~' Hiandoca's voice immediately filled my head.

I released my thumb from the button and immediately tossed the remote into my Bangle of Folding, where I decided it would stay there for the rest of time.

A disappointed wail resounded in my head but I ignored it in favour of heading to Minnera's side to see how the progress of her painting was.

Peeking over her shoulder, I found that she was painting a back view of me seated on the ground and meditating in front of Drebann's statue with light filtering in from above to create an ethereal glow around me.

I'm pretty sure Minnera exaggerated the look of the scene because this looked like something that was straight out of a fantasy book instead of being real life.

In other words… It was perfect.

Minnera seemed to think so too as she got up to take a step back and stared at the painting for a solid minute before she finally cleaned up and packed her new painting away.

She then turned to me, "Are you done, Aster? You can pray for a little bit longer if you want."

"Err… No, I'm good. I already got what I came here for. You wanted to pray to Ralaie, right? So let's go."

She looked a little disappointed by my answer but I wasn't going to go back there after already dealing with those three goddesses even if it's so that Minnera could paint another picture.

It took quite a lot of pampering and convincing before they stopped trying to one up each other and get me to stay for a while longer.

Who knew goddesses could be that needy?

At least I was already used to dealing with it since my girls were also pretty much the same so I could just use the same tactics I use on them on the goddesses.

Surprisingly, it worked pretty well on the goddesses, all things considered…

I just had to whisper some sweet words to Srii, 'punish' Hiandoca a lot, and give Drebann a few pats before I was finally freed from them.

They did tell me that they would make me visit them again soon and that sounded pretty ominous to me.

I waited for Minnera to pack up her things before we left the shrine, my lover folding her wings back behind her and letting them dematerialise.

We walked out of the shrine and back out into the forest, this time with Minnera leading the way as we went towards the other shrine that did not have Drebann's carvings on them.

Inside the building were different symbols on each of the walls which I suspect represented each god of this World.

Interestingly, there was even one for Immana despite the fact that the Trasifs were cast out by that particular god.

They could have been petty and decided not to give the god a spot in their temple, but perhaps they knew if they did not, they might get some kind of divine retribution or something so it's better for them to just make one.

There were a few others here to pray as well and pretty much all of them were people of other races and not a single Trasif in sight.

I guess they really made this shrine for visitors to worship their own gods.

And it also shows that most, if not all, Trasifs worship Drebann exclusively.

I followed Minnera who went to one of the symbols on the wall of the shrine and knelt down in front of it.

She turned back and beckoned me over to her, showing that she wanted me to join her as well.

I'm assuming she's going to meet Ralaie and wants me to come along as well?

I obliged and went over to her side, letting Katsuki lay down a mat in front of me before I also adopted the same position as Minnera with my knees on the mat that Katsuki laid out.

Both of us clasped our hands together at the same time and prayed to Ralaie.

I wasn't really sure if this would work for her since I don't think I was as close to her as I am to the other three goddesses.

But as though to prove me wrong, the sensation of falling came over me again and I found myself standing in what looked like the inside of a cave.

Beside me was Minnera who had also appeared alongside me inside the cave.

As we were getting our bearings, the sound of metal hitting against metal reverberated around the cave.

We looked at each other before turning in the direction of the sound, finding another smaller cave entrance a short distance away.

I'm guessing that's where the goddess is?

"Do you think we might be disturbing her?" I asked while walking towards the smaller cave.

"If it was just me alone, I would have thought that way… But when it's you, Aster, there is no such thing."

I wasn't sure what she meant by that but we were already at the entrance to that small cave so I decided to focus on where we're going instead.

The sound of metal being hammered got louder and it was clear Ralaie was in the midst of forging something.

Peeking into the cave, my suspicions were proven true as we see the goddess currently swinging her hammer at an anvil and beating a metal rod she was holding with her other hand.

Both Minnera and I were just standing at the mouth of the cavern, wondering if it would be fine for us to intrude.

Without stopping her hammering, the goddess shouted at us, "Well come on in? Unless you're there to check out my ass, then I say continue."

Because of her words, my gaze went to her body and she was quite literally just wearing a leather apron and nothing else. Her body was shining with what appeared to be sweat and her bottom was quite literally on full display.

I was wondering if this was even safe to be this exposed in front of a forge until I realised I was worried about a goddess accidentally burning herself.

Yeah, that's stupid…

Minnera and I entered the cave and approached the goddess who continued her work, the sound of her hammer ringing in our ears.

"So what brings you here today? Not that I'm complaining about this, of course," The goddess asked, not looking at us.

Oh yeah, what are we actually doing here, Minnera? I only followed along because you asked me to and you never actually showed an interest in praying to her before this…

Minnera didn't say anything and merely materialised a giant canvas in front of her.

I almost thought she was here to paint until I realised that the canvas was already painted on.

Narrowing my eyes at it, it took me a moment to figure out that it was actually a painting of me sleeping on top of the bed.

I have no idea when she painted this but I was in my pyjamas and curled up with my body half hidden underneath the blanket.

This must not be a recent painting since I was sleeping alone and my girls were nowhere to be found. Plus, I was fully dressed while asleep which hasn't happened for a really long time.

Also, how big is this painting?!! I'm estimating it to be at least four metres tall and three metres wide!! That's more than thirteen feet tall and almost ten feet in width!!

Almost instantly, Ralaie threw the thing she was working on aside to appear in front of Minnera, beholding the painting that she had brought out.

I also noted that she was no longer 'sweaty'. Then I realised how stupid that sounded because gods don't sweat. Did she really make her body look sweaty on purpose?

"It's… Perfect. This… This is perfection."

Minnera nodded, "I don't know if I can make anything better… But I am willing to try. I've already masturbated to this at least fifteen times and I still get turned on when I see it."

…

Minnera… This is a painting of me just sleeping… You get turned on by that?

You know what, don't answer that… I've seen Lisa getting turned on by me doing the weirdest things so this is still on the relatively normal scale.

Anyway… Did we really come here just to give your goddess this?

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