[i]The laughter just made Astraeus confused, her right eyebrow rising up high in curiosity, head cocking to the right, so cutely tilted. Just like Irina with her laugh, the angel could be strangely cute, inexperienced with this realm and its people as she was... Her confusion faded as quickly as it had blossomed up, swiftly replaced by a wide grin at the Vileblood's suggestion. She liked it, for sure.[/i] "Mmhm, yes, show these prissy deities the power of the Legion; our unified strength," [i]She quietly uttered to herself with an eager nod, "our unified strength" undoubtedly referring to the exact same Legion she had mentioned -- her very origins. Her grin widened, the grip her left arm and two wings had on Irina tightening ever so slightly, the armour that shrouded Astra's body fading, replaced in almost an instant by the soft, comfortable, stone grey robes she usually wore when not planning on murdering something... she'd do exactly what Irina had said, no doubt, but not right now, not instantaneously. Currently, she just spoiled her little psychopath with warmth, softness, and little scratches.[/i] "The thing I, personally, find absolutely laughable is that the deities... they came after me. You see, while cycled repeat for every world, they still remain different and unique: never will there be two identical cycles. The fundamentals change and shift. In the current cycles, the gods only spawned once the adorable little sentients started feeling the [i]need[/i] to have them. Belief is power. When enough beings believe something hard enough, they will find it to be true. The gods and goddesses might not have many followers anymore - if at all - but they still exist, if mostly weakened. Even a mere mortal such as you, sweet lady, are capable of snuffing them with the right tools -- tools that exist on the astral plane. There is, however, one that remains superb, though him, we will ignore and spare..." [i]Astraeus' grin turned into a fond smile, her mind obviously shifting to the particular deity she mentioned, even if no names were dropped. It wasn't a smile that suggested she was in love or whatever, but rather, it spoke about friendship... which was strange, to say the least, considering she was the exact same person-angel-thingy that decided to genocide all the deities in the previous cycle.[/i]