Post Test Meeting

Silence enveloped the room with the sound of ruffling papers in the highest building in Tartarus, the Work Building. The Gold Board room was filled with several deities who were deputies several aspects. Due to lack of manpower for several eons, the deities are filling up lead posts and deputy posts of aspects. Aspects are the attributes relegated to earn devotion and in turn that devotion manages the overall world for it not to descend into chaos. In Zariya's case, they needed the devotion to properly manage the mana to the world of Zariya. Which is why they are having meetings about utilizing the mana used by the world.

"These are the data of the initial test." Horus provided the meeting room with a presentation and hard copies of the items to each attendees of the meeting.

"Looks like we have a good surplus of mana." Morticia smiled. Her pale face is in contrast with her dark business attire as she swiveled her chair. Tartarus has no chairs made of bones or stones but rather looked like a big corporate office.

"Based on the last transfer, we have a surplus worth of about roughly 200 centuries worth. Though the mana that was used on initial connection was about 10 years' worth. We were able to minimize it to somewhere between, 1 month worth of mana instead." Horus explained. Mana is required to run Zariya to keep the magical beings growing. As administrator gods of Zariya, Tartarus has to see the supply that they have. During Ryuji's transfer they received an insane amount of Mana that may last for several centuries.

"If we can maintain that we can use the projectors and re-establish the faith within the temple." Sefie added. Despite Zariya being three times larger than regular earth, the faith has been fluctuating for last several eons.

"1 month? How long was test?" Medusa asked.

"It was about almost 3 hours. We were able to use about 1 month of mana per hour." the power used is equivalent of the mana used by all of the beings in Zariya.

"This puts projector test as a success then. We can move to phase 2 but try to lower it so that we don't need to request soul transfers regularly from the other worlds." Yubis added.

"However, with the last transfer a two-century worth of mana was depleted in a short amount of time and we still need to investigate this, uncle." A middle-aged man with stern and upright disposition loudly claimed.

"It's better to ready do request transfers still just in case, Yubis-sama." Charon added. It is not a bad suggestion after all, it is indeed better to have a backup plan.

Sefie just gave a warm smile to the middle-aged man. "If our Rhadamanthus can do it, I will feel secure." It was already an emergency when they had issues with the mana which may jeopardize her vacation. Hades promised ever since they had met up to get at least three months off ever since. Initially the vacation is for visiting her mother Demeter but ever since the fall of Olympus at the end of the ancient era, Tartarus moved to Zariya. They still visit the old site where the Olympus realm was.

Hades gave a calculating glance around the table for a few seconds then gave a loving gaze at Sefie who was smiling. He then uttered. "Rhadamanthus, you shall be in charge of that investigation since everything has died down with the sudden mana depletion." He then gave a glance to the middle-aged man which looked weird at one point because Hades looked like a young master from most cheesy romance novels, a cold, handsome young master.

"It is indeed better to check where the leak is coming from." Horus quipped. It is indeed better to solve the root cause of the problem.

"Relay to me and the other judges immediately if there are any updates." Hades commanded.

"Thank you, uncle, sister." Rhadamanthus bowed solemnly. Calling Hades and Sefie according to his relationship with them would cause anyone to flinch but by this time, people in Tartarus already know about it and they do not look beyond the human concept of familial relationship taboos amongst themselves after all prior to Olympus and even to earlier myths, relationships are very weird.

"This meeting has ended everyone. Yubis and Horus come with us." Hades and Sefie stood up and exited the room first.

"Charon, please help us with the materials later, we just need to talk with Hades" Yubis smiled as he asked a favor. Horus immediately unhooked his laptop from the projector.

"No problem Yubis-sama." Charon bowed.

The two animal head gods went to Hades and Sefie's office. The God and Goddess of the underworld has joined office which is decorated with white marble and dark and black tone furniture. Plants are also around the room which looked like a hotel room suite at the first glance.

"Have a seat." Sefie quickly prepare some tea at a small pantry.

"Horus, I called you today with Yubis because of our recent transfer. As you know from Morticia, our recent transfer is quite unique. Ryuji Takeda is the brother of Takehiko which was summoned prior to him few years back. He was also a peculiar one because the mana transfer is quite higher than the usual ones that we do." Hades starts to explain. Horus was not around for a decade due to him being on the Heaven Realm's Technological Institute that would cause him not to be familiar with the Takeda brothers.

The Falcon God nodded as he listened with Hades explained.

"From your judgement, what do you see with him?" Hades asked without beating around the bush.

"As swift reported, he is indeed a peculiar. He has a very faint divine power within him." Horus honestly answered.

"It may be my divine power earlier." Yubis looked at Horus with doubt. "Is it not mine? The wolf kids felt mine."

"No, definitely not yours. Swift knows your specific divine aura after all these eons. Even if you are a hundred kilometers away, he knows your divine power in one glance." Horus explained. While swift is Horus' pet, it is also a mythical creatue that can be at par with Suzaku, the phoenix god in terms of divinity. The only difference is, Swift has no aspect to rule with and he has been with Horus ever since.

"This may explain about the sudden surplus with the mana transfer. However, I did not feel it before the transfer occurred." Yubis stated. He scratched his head and continued to speak. "The only anomaly was when the transfer went haywire."

"Vreta-chan did not also feel when he entered the divine realm." Sefie said as she served the teacups to each person. There was a moment of silence as they all think about the situation. The sound of water being poured to the teacups can only be heard. After she was done, she went to Hades side and leaned on the chair where he was sitting.

"Is it possible that he might be a Demi? Since each our divine powers are individual. " Sefie asked. Divine powers are like fingerprints to each god. It is a unique signature to each divinity from demigod and up.

"It is indeed possible my wife." Hades smiled lovingly to Sefie as he wrapped his arm around her. Yubis in the other hand flinched when he saw this public display of affection. Horus remains unfazed with the sweet couple and Yubis silently glanced at Horus and admired his bird god's imperviousness with this affection attack.

"King Yan also brought up that Ryuji has only one life file which may mean a first reincarnation. They did not have any problems with his record." Sefie added.

"Bishamonten also reported that the binbogami that was attached to him, had some sort of a seal that was regurgitated at some point." Yubis spoke since he was the one who dealt with the transfer.

"If he is indeed a Demi, we need to find out what aspect he is aligned with? Right hubby?" Sefie smiled. But she was a bit worried. They only wanted their adoptive son reunited with his brother. It was not a big request since they coincide with the world's mana depletion. But now she feels they plunged into a situation which is unfamiliar to them.

Hades sensed his wife's uneasiness and held her hand to show his support. Sefie smiled to his husband.

Yubis witnessed this sweet nothingness unfolding in front of him and flinched.

"I guess we should start with how he glitched the system." Horus suggested. After all Swift reported him all what the giant falcon had witnessed from the time of delivery of the papyrus parchment until he departed. He also was viewing the first test for the holoprojector and observing him remotely. Definitely what happened with what he can call a contract signing was not a fluke since there were two test subjects that had the same result. Its no longer a coincidence but rather it's the process of the taming or an issue with the caster.

"Explain.