Lauren sighed as she leaned back away from her desk. She just sent the message to Alex and was about to get ready for the meeting. Now that they were at the two year mark before the compet.i.tion really started, they were going to have a meeting to see what the other compet.i.tors were capable of. They had access to the information to start with, but they could choose wether or not they looked at it. The meeting was so that they had to compare the difference of their candidates with the others.She looked round her office, in a spare room of her home. It was a modern looking building that any successful businessman would want, but it was in the middle of a divine realm. Each of her coworkers, "angels", had their own domain in the divine realm. Hers was a high end modern home, with an office that she preferred to work in. Others would have their divine realms be wherever they wanted, some were on a beach lounging in hammocks all day while working on their tablets, others would be in the middle of the jungle, or on top of a mountain. If they didn"t like how their domain was, or wanted a new one then it could be changed whenever they wanted.
It was a few more hours until the meeting, so Lauren decided to relax in one of her hot springs until then. She walked up to a dial on the wall leading to her back yard, and turned it, causing the scenery to change. It continued warping until it stopped at a j.a.panese bamboo forest. She grabbed her own tablet, so that if there was something she needed to do it was still with her, and started walking along the path into the forest.
While walking she felt herself calming, especially when she thought about relaxing in her hot springs. Though Lauren usually had a strict att.i.tude, she loved natural hot springs. She would always use her vacations to visit other worlds and try out any hot springs there to use in her own domain. After a few minutes of walking, she arrived at a steaming pool of water. She walked to the stand with towels nearby, and started stripping. Lauren"s figure was one that combined with her business suit, made her look like the stereotypical s.e.xy secretary. She didn"t care about this though, and entered the hot water to enjoy herself.
She was only in the water for about three minutes, when she felt someone invading her domain. She knew who it was, and only groaned while they shot towards her. She felt them getting closer, until,
"BAAAAANNNNNNNNNZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!" The person screamed as they cannonballed into the hot spring. Lauren didn"t even flinch as they did this, and only said,
"How many times have I told you Jennifer, don"t jump into my hot springs." The girl who looked like she was only about thirteen, but had an amazing chest, then pouted as she complained,
"And how many times have I told you Ren, call me Jenny!" Lauren sighed once more before opening her eyes, and looking at the the little girl with bright pink hair.
"I believe the amount of times you"ve told me matches the amount of times I"ve told you my name isn"t Ren. And I still I can"t believe you"re still using that form after how many hundreds of years?" The girl in front of her fit the typical anime girls style to a tee. Jenny had gotten obsessed with anime for some reason a few thousand years ago, and had been trying to copy it ever since. After a moments thought, Lauren realized she was almost a carbon copy of Serafall. Jenny then stood in the water, and without any shame, struck a pose.
"Don"t tell me you don"t like this cutesy form? I mean I"m adorable!" Lauren sighed once more, and said,
"If you call yourself "cute" or "adorable" then you just look obnoxious. Back to the serious topic, how"s your candidate?" Jenny looked slightly more serious, though she was still somewhat obnoxious, and started saying,
"Anne"s still doing amazing! It"s a waste that she doesn"t want to be part of the compet.i.tion, but I guess that means your guy will be better off when she joins him. The world she ended up on is primitive, but that means that the impact she"s having on it is huge. She introduced several concepts that the inhabitants haven"t even touched on yet, and has been actively healing and even fighting the surrounding monsters. On top of all that shes been building houses and walls to protect the ones following her. Due to this she"s being hailed as a G.o.ddess even though she"s only eighteen."
Lauren nodded as she looked up Anne on her tablet. She saw that the girl had chosen quite interesting powers, such as master herbalist guide, a power that grants the user complete knowledge of any plant they see, including any alchemical uses. With this she helped the natives of her current world advance in agriculture and making medicine, as well as poisons that work only on monsters. Telekinesis, with this she was able to help with building new homes and such, as she was able to lift and move many times the amounts of the other people. And finally Sky dragon slayer magic, this was interesting since it was a healing power, but also directly supports and attacks.
With this a.r.s.enal at her disposal Lauren could understand how she became known as a G.o.ddess in a primitive world. They continued talking until it was time for the meeting and started getting ready to leave together. Jenny got out of the springs, and after dressing started to put her pink hair up, causing Lauren to sigh once more. Her hair was only down to just past her shoulders, but she would put it up into two pony tails that fanned out at the sides. It was all an effort to complete the anime girl look. When Lauren stood up Jenny started giggling slightly at the sight, causing Lauren to glare at her.
"Still find it funny huh? I"ll get you back for this one of these days." A few hundred years back Jenny decided to play a prank on Lauren, by magically tattooing several hearts across her a.s.s. Normally this wouldn"t mean anything bad, but for some reason even after changing her form several times Lauren had been unable to get rid of the hearts. Even the one who put them there, Jenny, was unable to remove them, so the only solution was to have someone else examine and remove them. Lauren instantly rejected this idea, as she didn"t want someone, or possibly multiple someone"s examining her a.s.s. The two then went to the meeting to discuss the remaining compet.i.tors.
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Many, MANY, hours later Lauren was finally back at her own home. She didn"t like what she was told about the others. Some of them had died already, not too depressing, but there were others that had actually taken over the world they had gone to. This was concerning, especially since some of them were worlds that Alex planned to go to. However they were forbidden to reveal any information about the others to their a.s.signed person. The purpose of being able to get the others information is so that they would know the best way to advise their candidates for the future, while also keeping all the information they needed from them. It was a contradicting order for them, probably a way to test them as well as the ones they had to guide to see which ones were the most successful.
Lauren was ma.s.saging her temples at the frustration, and returned to her desk to see what she missed that day.