Chapter 1169: Myconidas
Myconidas.
This little mushroom girl... boy, whatever person, was quite strange.
First, they were made out of mushrooms, yeah.
Second, I could tell they had a powerful, very powerful Divine Ember!
However, somehow, they had no idea how to use their powers and were absolutely not developing any since their conception.
And also they're quite cocky, and baby-like, despite being thousands of years old.
"Nooooo! Hel-sama! Don't leave me behind! Don't kick me out! Buuaaaah! I promise I'll get better and stronger!"
They started begging Hel as they grabbed her dress and began weeping over her, leaving her completely covered in a slimy-like mucus made out of a bunch of spores.
"Myconidas! That is enough! You cannot continue behaving like a child after so long! You are already several hundreds of thousands of years old!" Hel reprimanded him. "I have taken care of you since your conception but... It has become quite obvious you're not suited for this place. Your growth is most likely related with the outside world, the surface, where you can find and interact with the living."
"B-But all my friends...!" sniffed Myconidas, constantly crying out loud. "Don't kick me out! I promise... I-I promise I will be better... Sniff. I just can't... get stronger quickly! E-Everyone has their own pace, right?!"
"Geez, Myconidas! That is enough! Maria is your new... master," said Hel. "And from now on, you're her responsibility, not mine!"
"What?! So all of this was just to throw me the responsibility of this... child thing?" I wondered.
"So mean! I am not a child thing!" cried Myconidas. "I am Myconidas! A mighty entity born from the corpse of Ymir! Learn your place, sniff..."
He kept acting cocky as he tried and wept like a baby, serious they got some issues.
"The corpse of Ymir?" I wondered. "So what exactly happened with that? Is that true? I remember hearing that Ymir and Tiamat's bodies merged with the world to...?"
I extended my hand towards him.
"Come on now, let's go," I smiled. "You can call me auntie Maria, I'll take good care of you, Myconidas. There's a bunch of people that would love to become your friend."
"I don't wannaaaa!" he kept weeping.
"Hahh... Myconidas is a special type of being, my father once speculated he might even be a God of Yggdrasil as well, an unseen, mysterious god related to a Divine Throne that has yet to be awakened," said Hel. "But for that to happen, he must grow and develop. So, take him." Hel grabbed the mushroom boy... or girl, or both, or none, and gave it to me.
"Ah, yes..."
As he kept weeping, I grabbed their very light and spongy body, and patted their cute mushroom cap.
"There, there, calm down baby... It's alright."
As he wept over my shoulders, Hel told me something.
"Make sure to be careful with their Spore Aura, use some veil to cover that up," she said.
"Gotcha! Anything else?" I wondered.
"Nothing much than that, if anything else happens, contact me and we can resolve it
together," Hel said. "Now, off you go!"
FLASH!
And I was finally back home.
With a cute mushroom kid in my arms.
"Woah! So many colors!"