Grounded

Grounded

Once they all recovered from the bomb I dropped on them they were all eager to understand what the fuck actually happened for me to suddenly get such a massive jump in abilities. I revealed my enlightenment of reversed curse technique and how that worked with my current abilities and gave me healing as well. My ability to regrow limbs wasn't exactly a secret in the familia at this point but it was not truly healing so much as manipulating the body to replace the lost limb or fuse the wounded flesh back together.-

Reverse cursed healing though was true and proper regeneration that didn't starve the receiver to do but used the positive energy as a fuel source instead. Unlike normal cursed energy however positive energy was extremely difficult to send outside my own body to manifest. It was also really damn hard to control as well but neither of these were surprising for me. Qualitatively speaking positive energy was a super advanced form of cursed energy and thus WAY more difficult and different to handle than the basic cursed energy. I may as well have been learning a brand new energy type in fact as a result.-

Unfortunately this good news wasn't enough to get me off the hook with Hestia and she grounded me for a month. That meant no dungeon, limited crafting and training. She initially wanted to entirely remove crafting and training but I managed to negotiate it down since I did still need to replace my equipment and master my new abilities. I still only got four hours of "free" time to train or craft a day though which left me bored out of my skull for most of the day.-

Once I had this thought it took root in my mind and I couldn't help but ask Hestia if my idea was right. She clammed up at the question though and made it clear that no god would answer that question, it was taboo. Syr/Freya was more able to enlighten me as to why it was so thankfully. See while we mortals were allowed to know that the afterlife existed we WEREN'T allowed to know what the details of it were exactly unless we discovered it by accident or personally went there somehow.-

Oh yes we mortals could indeed go to the divine realms however it was way fucking harder for us to do so than it was for the gods to come to the mortal realm. The reason for this was perfectly natural really. Gods could "fall" by suppressing their existence to a level acceptable in the mortal realm. Like a skilled fighter holding back to spar with a newbie. Naturally it was a much more difficulty process for that same newbie to match the skilled fighter without themselves growing to a skilled fighter themselves.-

In this case for a mortal to go to the heavenly realms they needed outside aid and lots of preparation. It was also something few mortals had ever actually survived doing as once in the heavenly realms they were subject to the full unbridled power of the beings that lived there. To put that into perspective that was like every ant being as strong as the level seven monster rex, Balor. And that was just the starting level of power for the things over there so obviously you'd need to be level eight or nine just to possibly survive in that place.-

Learning that insane shit killed any idea of me trying to make a trip to the literal Hell in the fucking cradle. Sure I might make vast leaps of progress in my cursed technique but I sorta need to be alive to enjoy those benefits no? Though there was also a possibility that I'd show up as a soul in Hell after death with what would basically be a sparkling job history in the field. Could you even fathom how happy the deities in that place would be to have someone show up that already knows how to do the job?