500th Time Reborn, A World Only Known By Women: The Karma System

Tallia stepped through another portal into a hall of gold, but she was only just able to stand straight up. The Dwarven halls were not meant for tall people, so Galio would be bent over the entire time here, but that wasn't important.

"So, you decided to come and visit me? Was my first no not enough for you?" Goldy, Goddess of the Dwarves, asked.

"I require an answer from you and not the line that you gave in front of the council. This is not a matter that can be ignored. I also expected the others to be like this, but not you. You are smarter than this nonsense," Tallia asked as she walked over to take a seat on the small gold-weaved couch.

"This is a human problem, not a Dwarf one. You have not been a Goddess long enough to understand why we are all the way we are!" Goldy snapped, pulling on one of her two thick golden yellow hair with strands of gold thread weaved in.

"And I have been doing my best to make up for the last one! I know that she ignored your plea for help. I have a champion that is different than anything we have ever met. That person is fighting for the whole world's safety right now while we argue! If you think this doesn't affect you, you had better think about the purpose of the Dungeon under the mountain! How many of your people have died to explore it? Does that ever stop them, or other people from around the world?" Tallia snapped.

"What of the Dungeon? That has always been a place for those that want to test out their metal! Nothing more!" Goldy retorted.

"And where did it come from?! Do you know? I sure don't, nor do I know why the Undead started to attack in the south part of my island! Does this not seem strange to you? And now monsters that aren't of this world are being summoned! By people that are supposed to be all dead; the Blood Witches!" Tallia growled and poured herself a drink from a golden bottle into a golden glass.

Of course, it was a red wine that splashed into the golden cup. What did you expect?

"The Blood Witch were all killed! I was there and watched Xena be pulled into the pit with the leader!" Goldy declared.

"Then what happened for the next one hundred years? Can you remember? Because I can't see them, and I appeared just after all that happened because Melodious, the previous Human Goddess, was sending out assassins to attack other races. I replaced her and removed all the assassins, but I should have been here before that, but I have no memories of that," Tallia explained.

Goldy stayed quiet and looked away from Tallia.

It was true that she also had no memory of the century, and Goldy had lived through it, but Melodious had killed one of her daughters. Unlike most of her kind, Goldy cared deeply for her children, and the human betrayal still stung.

"I know that you still hurt over the loss of your child, and there is nothing that I can do about that, but I can promise you one thing. The person that is fighting to protect this world is also here to bring order to it as well. Galio is a remarkable creature that has lived countless lives and retains all of his knowledge. He plans to come to visit your island next, and your Dungeon will be his target," Tallia explained.

"So I am just going to ignore everything that has happened, drop everything I am doing and come help?" Goldy declared, and Tallia stood up, nodding.

The Human walked over and grabbed the Dwarf by the arm and dragged her out of the chair, opening a portal.

"I am glad you feel that way. Galio is waiting for us," Tallia said calmly as she dragged a struggling Goldy.

"Hey! Put me down, Giantess! I never said that I was going to help! I have many things to do right now!" Goldy exclaimed.

"You are full of it. You have been sitting here for the last hour doing nothing but stare at your full cup of wine! Do not try to lie to my All-Seeing Eyes!" Tallia growled, pulling Goldy out onto the windy wall where Breya was leaning into a parapet with her eyes closed.

"Where are all the women... Holy cow, what in Fool's Gold is that?! Is that really one of the Riftwalkers?!" Goldy exclaimed as she stared at the massive Undead Riftwalker.

Tallia ignored her and rushed over to Angel, but after laying hands on her, Tallia found that she wasn't injured, just exhausted. Tallia got up and looked out in the distance where Galio was fighting the monster, but it was like watching a fly fight an elephant.

"Is that the person that you were talking about? How can he even be near that thing?! He is even using magic on it! That shouldn't work!" Goldy exclaimed as she peaked between the parapet.

"He isn't using it directly, but it still doesn't matter; we need to help him buy more time. Please use your attack to try and take it down. I don't think that it will be enough, but I am going to go and support him. Just keep on it until Elfenia's daughter, Listenia gets here," Tallia said and then leaped off the wall with an explosive force that blew Goldy's hair back and made her grip the wall.

"Stupid strong woman just thinks that she can boss people around!" Goldy growled.

"We need all the help that we can get. Galio is doing her best to keep everyone safe, but she is only one person," Breya said weakly as she opened her golden eyes to look up at Goldy.

"Yeah, Yeah, I get it. I will help," Goldy said and reached her little arm in the air. "Growling Cannon, Come to me!"

The clouds above turned to gold, and the face of a lion stretched down to the Dwarven Goddess. The mouth opened to reveal a golden Blunderbuss that she retrieved, and the head was pulled back into the clouds.

"Been a while since I have needed to use this, so I might be a bit rusty!" Goldy laughed as she placed the barrel of the Growling Cannon in the slot of the parapet.