Silence, complete and total silence as Loki abruptly stopped laughing when she heard what I just said as with her power as a god she knew instantly that I was telling the truth.
Seeing that Loki was no longer laughing and looked completely serious unlike her usual self telling Riviera that what I said was true shocking her to her core at hearing this.
"It's good that gods in this world can tell when someone tells the truth or is lying, but I will say I did not come here of my own volition, I only ended up here after making a deal with a….. I don't know how to describe it properly in words, something unnatural, a monster, a god, a concept, a thing, a primordial being that has existed since time began or maybe even before existence itself came into, well existing." I said making it clear as I had no clue the response gods had about beings from outside of their world or maybe those from outside their universe as a whole.
Loki's brows furrowed at what I said as she knew I wasn't lying and this worried her, though this confused Riviera when hearing this.
"You made a deal with something beyond your understanding and you were sent careening out of your world and into ours as a result?…. But why? Why would that being do that?" Riviera said trying to make sense of what I just said and too which I just shrugged.
"No idea why I was sent to this world, all it said was that it would be watching and that it desired one thing, entertainment and I'm the star of the show, I wouldn't be surprised if it's listening in on what I'm saying, though I don't feel it nearby, though you would definitely feel it too, it sucks up all the light around it by its mere presence, after all, that thing is the living embodiment of the Void, the God of the Void, The Man in the Wall, or what its most well known for-" I say with a shake of my head before looking at them.
"The Indifference, it's not good, it's not evil, it just doesn't care, and the most terrifying of god is an Indifferent one after all right?" I say looking at Loki who now had a solemn expression on her face.
"But enough about the thing that sent me here, I bet you have loads of questions like, What does it mean that my Race is Voidborn, What this thing is, how can I merge with it, why your legs are crippled, since we are a familia now I can speak freely about anything and everything I know, after all you wouldn't betray my trust would you?" I said before letting them think and mull over everything I had said.
For a moment Loki was deep in thought before turning to Riviera, "Get Finn and the rest of the executives here, they need to know about our new Family member and everything he has." She said to which Riviera nodded before leaving me alone with Loki.
She then leaned forward on her knees as she rested her chin on the back of her hands as she stared at me with a look where she wouldn't take no for an answer before asking, "Hayden, are you in anyway shape or form here to bring harm to the mortals of this world?"
But I shook my head, "No, I have no intention to bring harm or destruction to this world, however that thing…. That's a different story….. That thing is definitely scarier than the dungeon, the three great monsters that roam this world and if I had to guess, whatever is truly is sealed at the lowest depths of the dungeon that you and the rest of the gods never want to see the light of day from everything I have heard in the brief time I have been in this world." From the things I had heard I could hypothesize what this world was all about and everything that the gods weren't saying to the mortals of the world.
"….." She said nothing on that, not that she didn't want to say anything but she can't say anything, revealing the truth to mortals as to why this world came to be the way it is, is forbidden and taboo to do so, and while Hayden is not a native inhabitant of this world he is not a god either and thus the taboo applied to him as well.
But the silence wasn't that long lasting as the door opened once more to which six people entered the room, those being Riviera who had brought along the Familia's Captain Finn Demine who is a pallum which is the name for short humans in this world but until they reach old age they tend to keep child like facial features, executive Gareth Landrock, a Dwarf by every sense of the word, along with the three other executives who also played as mentors to Finn, Gareth and Riviera.
Dane the Dwarf and Gareth's mentor, Noir the old man I had fought earlier who was also a mentor to Finn and lastly Bara, an Amazon who was an all around fighting expert
(These are original characters, they were alive in the backstory of Danmachi but died 7 years before the main story started.)
These six were the current executives of the Loki Familia and were the de-facto leaders that everyone turned to for their leadership.
As soon as Finn got into the room his thumb began to ache more than ever before, in fact this entire day his thumb had been aching, a sign something major was going to happen as it was a way of premonition of sorts for him, when in the dungeon it was mostly for bad reasons, but other times it was for good reasons such as leading him and his familia to find rare resources and other good things as well.
When Riviera gathered them all saying Loki wanted to tell them something and seeing a rather solemn look on her face made his thumb ache even more and now it was so intensely throbbing he almost grabbed his spear from off his back as the one time he felt it throb this much was when his village was destroyed by monsters.
However he held himself back, one was the fact that all the executives were here, two Riviera, while still holding a solemn look, was calm and showed no sign of being tense meaning the situation wasn't one where danger was involved, and lastly as he looked at the kid before him he saw him begin to put on his top once more making it clear that this man was just introduced into the Familia, and as such he just decided to wait and see before acting.
"Ahh Loki, I see you have already brought the kid into the familia, though did something happen with the kid that you need us all here?" Noir couldn't help but ask as after all he was the one to test him and knew he was accepted into the Familia.
But before anyone else could say anything, they watched the kid turn into what appeared to be dust that flowed into the kneeling being on the floor who soon shook to life and stood up before taking a seat on the bed to the confusion of everyone except Loki, Riviera and Noir who had seen this ability before.
"Let me introduce myself to everyone properly, I am Hayden Tenno, the newest member of the Loki Familia, and, well, I'm not from this world." I said to everyone here who all, except Loki and Riviera, were stunned silent by what I just said.
And all I could think was that this will be interesting to explain as to what the hell is going on.
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Now to anyone wondering, 'Why is he revealing that he's not from this world?' As some people have it set in stone that if you are a reincarnation, transmigrator, or world hopper, you never tell anyone about it.
And true in some stories it's best never to say anything, but when a literal eldritch god that is the manifestation of the void, or to explain in visual terms if you looked up at the night sky in a place with no light pollution and saw the sky for what it really looks like, you'd see a vast array of beautiful shining stars.
And you would also see never ending darkness where the stars don't exist.
And the areas of the universe where there are no stars and no light or life? What would you call that space?
Why the Void of course.
And now you take all that space and make that into the power of a Cosmic Eldritch Horror who is watching you because it's fun then yeah of course you'd tell people you plan to spend your daily life with as you have no clue when that thing could just decide to wreck everything and if they are not prepared then there's hundred percent chance they will die as a result.
So yes he is going to explain it to them cause it's best to make allies in this strange new world that he has little info about himself.
Obviously not give them a full on history lesson of his world and universe but enough that they should all know before anyone asks for specific details in the first place.
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