Deceit is something ever-present in human society. We as a species are not the strongest or the fastest. We call ourselves the smartest and that trait has helped us survive throughout the time. As it is said, where there is intelligence there is deceit.
Very few rarely don't indulge in the drug of deceit, because the convenient white lie that lets you off without having to confess the embarrassing truth. The trait of human deceit was at times viewed as something heroic when the weak battle the strong. The same trait is shameful or deplorable in a different scenario.
The expression of deceit always keeps changing, but the only thing constant to it is that it is never real. The strength of deceit also mirrors its weakness. Deceit is formless and without substance, it is all false. Deceit has value only until the target is deceived, a vigilant mind, and a prudent sight shatters all deceit.
The Goddess of Deceit is the same, she can only lord over those who she can fool, and to those vigilant, she is but an attractive weak woman.
Terasume, the Goddess of Deceit, is but a weak Goddess who is sent out to the mortal realm on a mission, her divine domain of deceit allowed her to successfully fool the immortal runes of the mortal world and ignore her decent.
There is a God or a Goddess for every rule and emotion of the mortal realm. However, these Gods and Goddesses are nothing but mere influencers of the immortal rune that corresponds to the respective rune or rule that a God has mastered.
However, to establish yourself as a God of a rule, the gods need to sever all of their ties to the mortal realm after their ascension. Any god trying to manipulate the immortal rune in the mortal realm will be hunted by all the immortal runes altogether and be destroyed from existence.
If a god wants to descend into the mortal realm the only known option is to seal down his or her powers and become a weak mortal again. There was no other way until Terasume; the Goddess of Deceit was given an important mission by a Higher God.
He lent her a rune artifact, which is a rare thing even in the God realm. It is with the help of this rune artifact and her naturally stealthy divine domain that she is able to descent into the mortal realm with a portion of her powers.
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"Obey me and I will give you what you are scared to desire. You lucky mortal… Hehehehehehehehe…"
Though Terasume only has a fraction of her true divine might, to coax a mortal into subservience is a child's play for the deceptive goddess. She went through such lengths only to make her nasty little play more believable and to hide her aura.
'Hehe, struggling for scarps in the God realm, lording over humans is very blissful. Now, I understand why the higher gods fight over the meager faith energy from these pitiful humans.'
'Heh, to control what is forbidden is a transcendent experience… Now, let's go prepare the female protagonist of my little play…'
Thinking about all that, Terasume whispered something to Ryan, after which he walked away in a wooden manner with a lost look in his eyes. Her blazing passionate eyes observed Elizabeth with undisguised passion.
With a smile. Terasume let of silver of her God aura. For the people in the party hall, they felt no disturbance, but for Elizabeth, it was as if an atomic bomb has gone off.
Elizabeth's face went pale as she quickly looked at the bar counter. However, before she could catch a glimpse, Terasume melded into the shadows and completely disappeared.
Though the God aura was undetected, as an attentive caring husband, Charlie was quick to notice the change in his wife.
"Darling, what's wrong? Should we head home?"
"Ah… its nothing honey. The party is for you, leaving early would not sit well with the guests...," smiled Elizabeth trying to assuage the worried face of Charlie.
"Nothing is more important than you," smiled back Charlie.
"Oh honey, don't worry, I will better once I freshen up a bit. I will take a short break to the ladies' room."
As soon as Elizabeth turned her the gentle smile she had on for her husband was gone, now there was nothing but a cold glare in her face and her eyes were searching for the remnants of the God aura.
Elizabeth is not a normal housewife, her shining iris made sure of her supernatural origin. Faint rune marks start to swirl in her iris and very soon she found the traces of God aura trying to dissipate quickly.
'Hmph! Trying to hide from?'
'Futile!'
The whole crowd ignored her presence as she shuttled through the shadows with a mystifying blue blaze…
Blitz!
Woosh!
Screech!
Elizabeth kept flashing in and out of shadows tracing the faint God aura, she traced it into the most prestigious presidential suite of Ebony Paradise Hotel.
"Got you now."
"Come out!" thundered the valiant Elizabeth.
When suddenly a pitch Black Hand with demonized long nails silently broke the space barrier behind her and in a micro-second, it accelerated faster than light to thrust the sharp talons into Elizabeth's heart.
"Heh, you think you can surprise me with this?" sounded the arrogant voice of Elizabeth as her party wear went up in a blaze with flickering blue lightning all over her. Her clothes transformed into a blue medieval gown decked in partial armor.
"BREAK!"
Roared Elizabeth as she turned with a roundhouse kick to the supersonic demonic hand.
BOOM!
The whole of the furniture's inside the room turned to dust just from the aftershock, even the walls developed cracks. However, no noise escaped out of the room. To the people outside the noise was completely void as the faint ripples inside the room indicate a space lock activated by Elizabeth.
In response to the furious counterattack of Elizabeth, thick black chains started to materialize from thin air and start to surround her. However, they all turned to ash with just a single strike of Elizabeth's coiling lightning.
"Pathetic, you wish to hold me back with this?" mocked Elizabeth in a cold tone, looking at a particular area in the air.
"Hahahahaha"
"Hello Elizabeth, or should I say Eija Clibatius, the Goddess of Celibacy…"
"…So, you're a remnant of the past Empyrean era?"
"On the contrary milady, I am a nouveau goddess. Fresh and young, unlike you."
"I am Terasuma – the Goddess of Deceit."
"Heh, such high sentiments for a divine servant, calling herself a Goddess with a beseeched divine flame."
As soon as Elizabeth/Eija mentioned about the blessed divine flame, the smile on Terasume's face turned ugly. Not just for her, the term 'blessed divine flame' is a sore spot for all nouveau gods and goddesses. Though the term sounds prestigious and noble amongst the mortals, in the God realm they are regarded as mere slaves of the High God that blessed them.
"b***h, I will show something gut-wrenching very soon, just stay here for now," uttered the Goddess of deceit with gritted teeth.
"Hahaha, you think you can hold me here with your power?" Goddess Eija nocked up an eyebrow arrogantly.
Terasume replied with a weird smile saying, "I never planned to hold you back with my power."
"Then…"
Suddenly, blazing red immortal runes lit up all around Eija. Realization his Elizabeth, the God aura that Terasume leaked is not just to attract her, but also the immortal runes.
"Hmm, I have been played…"