"Then I forgive you, Kai!" Aria chirped merrily. The silver-haired beauty seemed to not care too much.
"Thank you. Check your systemic interface. I wonder if you got a power." Kaiden did his best to move the topic along before the gamer girl started slinging fists at him instead of mere curses.
"Oh! I did. I awakened!" Nyx squealed with pure joy. "Space Valkyrie, it sounds very badass! However... It only has one spell."
Having one spell upon awakening often meant that the class would be F-tier once evaluated by the artifact in the Awakened Assocation. Each time an awakened reached a bottleneck, the first of which would happen at level 25, they would face a challenge. If they pass, the class will gain new abilities. However, there's a good reason for the tiering of the classes and why they were so important to decide one's ceiling as a combatant.
While low-tier awakened could put up a fight against higher ones if they were either higher leveled or just much better combatants, the higher-tiered people would gain better rewards, such as more or stronger spells, giving them giant innate advantages over the lower tiers.
"Moon Valkyrie! It sounds so beautiful; I love it so much." Aria was not at all disturbed by the fact that she also only had a single skill based on her ethereal, happy smile.
"Storm Valkyrie... You overgrown pink bimbo; you just dissed my language skills, yet you failed to read the added text. It says we will grow in strength alongside the Successor of the Heavenly Demon. When he ranks his Demonic Pornstar System up, we will gain new abilities. Furthermore, we can strengthen ourselves like normal awakened can by leveling up."
"Oh!" Nyx exhaled with surprise before swiftly checking the validity of Luna's statement. "You're right! This suggests that unlike normal awakened, we don't gain new spells by leveling up but by ranking up the Demonic Pornstar System. Levels for us mean upgrading our current spells as if our class is very strong already but is partially sealed away from us. Each rank-up puts us closer to the true potential of our Valkyrie classes and Kaiden to his Paragon of Sin class."
"A good theory," Kaiden nodded, thinking the same thing. "What are your spells?"
"Stormblade... Says I can summon a blade that's made of pure storm."
"Lunar Arc, a crescent-shaped energy projectile."
Both Luna and Aria had revealed their innate spells, and now it was time for Nyx to do so.
She had a mischievous grin tugging at her lips. "Master, open wide. [Telekinesis]."
Nyx focused her gaze on a salmon nigiri and started making motions with her fingers as if she were touching it despite the distance between her fingers and the sushi.
She dipped it in soy sauce, and once Kaiden realized what was going on and parted his lips, the piece of sushi was already floating in front of his mouth. She gently lay it down on his tongue while snickering with joy. The girl was very pleased with her spell.
"Master? Contain your deranged kinks, please," Luna grumbled.
The pink-haired beauty shook her head disapprovingly. "Don't you know? Valkyries are Odin's loyal subordinates. We don't know if Odin exists, however, the Heavenly Demon sure does—well, did, if he passed away. There are so many similarities between Odin and the Heavenly Demon that I think he might be the embodiment of the manmade concept known as 'Odin,' and as his successor, Kaiden is the new, up-and-coming 'Odin.'"
"What similarities? I never cared for mythology." Aria asked.
Nyx coughed into her palm before eagerly beginning her lecture session. "The first and most obvious is that both have an army of warrior maidens serving them, both 'coincidentally' called Valkyries. Second, Odin rules over Asgard and oversees other realms that are a part of his vast dominion. With the secondary epithet of 'Celestial Tyrant,' it's not at all a far fetch on my end to say that he must've had his dominion where he reigned supreme before his defeat.
Third, Odin is known for both war and wisdom. War should be obvious with titles like 'tyrant' and 'demon.' His wisdom, on the other hand, is best displayed by the fact that he created such an elaborate system. We don't have enough clues to validate my theory, I know, but I strongly believe myself to be right."
Nyx shocked all three listeners of hers. None of them expected her to be this smart and especially this knowledgeable about this niche topic.
The girl in question wasn't bothered by the three wide-eyed individuals staring at her with disbelief as she seamlessly continued with her reasonings. "The wording sense the system uses implies that Kaiden is our god and we are his angels or something along those lines. We derive everything supernatural that we have from him, and he can take it all away from us with a single thought of his. Furthermore, we already know that we will become stronger not just through leveling up but by making our 'god' increase his strength as well. In exchange, he will bless his devoted angels with more and more power as he grows."
"That's pretty hot..." Aria said bashfully once the three came out of their stupor. She seemed to not have any issues with Nyx's analogy and being subjected to being his warrior woman.
"You forgot your tinfoil hat at home, Miss Sub. Also, how do you know so much?" Luna asked before scoffing, "You're like a living Wikip*dia."
Nyx smugly snorted, "Hmph, you call me a bimbo and a bitch a lot, but I'll have you know, I'm a smart girl, and I like to read all kinds of stuff. I had a month where I got really into mythology when a romance book I read was about them, so I did a lot of research."
Kaiden interjected, offering his opinion. "You are my Valkyries, but I don't think I have anything to do with Odin or being a god in general. I think the Heavenly Demon was just an incomprehensibly strong dude who got bested at long last."
Nyx shook her head coyly, "We can't tell that for now. However, the wording the system uses makes me think that you will have more Sinsworn Valkyrie slots unlocked later down the line. At least, Odin surely had more than three Valkyries."
Luna suddenly grimaced with her beautiful features contorting from sheer disdain, "More slots mean opportunistic gold-digging sluts begging to occupy them..."
"Hm!" Aria gasped, realizing the possibility that there would be more members of the Valkyrie squad in the future.
Kaiden spoke up next, trying to be as diplomatic as possible. "We don't know what the future holds. Instead, we should form a plan. How are you ladies doing with money? I was thinking that if you need more, I would take Zadie's offer up on a few filmings."
"I'm good for this month," Luna replied instantly, clearly not happy with his proposed solution to their monetary troubles.
"I got enough for a while as well," Aria nodded.
"Yeah, a few weeks for me too."
"Then we should begin planning our future moves in earnest. Are there any roles you girls would prefer?"