A Wizards Misadventures

~~Level Twenty One~~

"Just close the damn portal, Hecate! Any fool can open and close a tear to the gap!" The other participant in the argument, an older man in a tailored suit with a thick beard, had his arms crossed and a snarl on his face.

"The top percentile of magic users might be able to open a portal to the gap given years of study and proper conditions. Any fool can slip through dimensions. It's like tearing a curtain apart and walking around one! Worlds of difference when it comes to effort and completely different effects!" She looked incredibly frustrated.

"And not even given a week can you bother to pull the sides together?!"

"Fucking hell, this is the seventh time I've explained this to you you blundering foo-!" The older man's hand immediately smacked the woman across the face hard enough to make her stumble. My opinion of the older man dropped like a stone.

"You will not speak to me that way you charlatan of a goddess!" he hissed, face red with fury. I sighed quietly and just walked closer to the portal, not bothering to wait for a greeting. The other two people noticed me then. Another elderly man, who looked almost like a fisherman, nearly asleep on a trident, somehow not stabbing his face or hand on it and a man who was literally skeletal and actually looked a lot like Ainz with some wispy hair. Hades and Poseidon if I had to guess. That would make the older man Zeus. I already heard Hecate's name and the labcoat woman was probably Athena judging by the owl on her shirt.

"Oh, you're here," Poseidon said, still a bit sleepy. "Took you long enough." Zeus turned from Hecate and glared at me, the new direction of his fury.

"YOU!" he boomed. I actually heard a rumble of thunder in his voice. The air was charged with storm affinity and the god's aura. "You were supposed to be here seven hours ago!"

"It's two o'clock," I said in confusion. "Oh, you meant two pm Greek time?"

"You UTTER FOOL!" he roared. I scowled at him.

"If you're angry blame whoever sent the call. They should have been more clear about the-"

"HOW DARE YOU!"

"By speaking. Look, I'm really jsut here to fix your portal. Shouting at me is as effective as yelling at the TV repair guy. I just don't really care," I shrugged. Zeus glared at me like I had murdered his dog. I got to the portal and just looked at it for a moment. A flick of void against it was enough to draw a conclusion. "Yeah, this sucker is being held open from the other side."

"One of your pets daring to attack us?" Zeus asked hostilely.

"No, I'd never let them be that dumb with my power. Also, this is an extradimensional portal as Hecate has already figured out." She glared at Zeus. He didn't even notice, too busy looking at me hawkishly. "I keep my followers from shifting to other dimensions. It's too risky that they'd draw invasions back to this world or that they'd try and conquer some other plane or cause some other problem. Anyways, this might not have been made by someone but rather something. Like a void elemental who's curious about this dimension. How was this made, exactly?"

"Athena was toying with the dimensional gap," he told me.

"Could you be more specific?" I looked at Athena.

"I was trying to create a phenomenon similar to the Nordic rainbow bridge," she explained. "I attempted an altered variant of a basic portal spell used to traverse between adjacent dimensions and thought some primordial energy would be enough to create a stable connection between here and a more distant dimension. I was searching for something relatively similar to our dimension if not exactly the same."