He met each one's eyes as they entered, still eating, but nodded to one end of the table, indicating they were to sit on the indicated side. Once everyone was there, he did a quick count, before cleaning off the plate with his bread, and then slowly eating that. He sighed, before looking from one group to another. "A while back, every last one of you decided to jump on me when I came back from the Cave after having to damn near kill myself to get through what I thought at the time was the lowest sensible level. Something about 'don't go throwing my life away when I have so MANY of you to use.' So I nodded nicely, agreed to play nice, and told you to all come forward to volunteer for advanced services or training later."<br/><br/>He smiled, the exhaustion slowly draining out of him as the extra energy helped perk him up, though his smile went no further than his lips, and the shown teeth were ALL fangs. "I will give you all three guesses how you were divided."<br/><br/>He waited a moment, not needing to explain how they were divided, before his anger exploded, and he brought his fist down on the table hard enough to shatter the otherwise indestructible material with pure brute force. "Well, the double standard stops HERE. I have been nice, I have been patient, and now I am tired of it. I am fighting to save the overdeities damned multiplanarverse from being unmade by a goddamn beyonder powered Marilith that just kicked my happy ass around a room in the Cave, so she can remake it as she wants, without myself or anyone else to ever oppose her.<br/><br/>Everyone on the left, your right, side of the table will be reporting to the command center inside of two days for advanced training and assignments, or you will be REMOVED from the domain and told to never come back. The ones on the right, your left, get a month to relax since you have been helping except for Kammy and Ash, before I toss them the rest of the way into the deep end. Everyone staying is going to get promoted to at least semi-divine status so they can at least protect themselves, as seven of you already have. And I will be spending at LEAST one day out of the week in the Cave, improving.<br/><br/>Verdelet did as I expected, but I underestimated the sheer amount of power hidden in the beyonder samples in the high security lab. Nadriina, Serena, and Delvahine are, effective immediately, allowed access to high security labs, everyone else is allowed to enter the medium labs to request experiments for them, or to begin their own. Talk to the constructs in the domain, they will have suggestions on where would be a good place for you all to start."<br/><br/>He leaned back, the table repairing itself as he removed his fist from it, the rage back under control. "I gathered everyone because I can't do this alone, and while I might not have given everyone as much choice in the matter as I should have, you have all had plenty of time to get out if you didn't want the responsibilities. Well, I said last time that that was the last chance but I guess I have to go back on my word, and give you all one last chance to get out."<br/><br/>He stared to the side, his jaw working for a moment, before he turned back and looked at both groups. "There is maybe ten to fifty years before Verdelet is ready to make her final move, and Ragnarok starts. Every ONE of you, except for Keelah who just kinda got scooped up into this, were chosen because you were among the best of your fields I could find. I just got my ass beat, so I am a bit further behind than anticipated, and now have to work to make that up. And this is where all of you start pulling your weight. If you need training, tell the damn command center you need it, and they will get a couple death squad constructs to get you to at least epic level before they give you an advanced assignment. Now, I just blew about four months worth of worshipper power to get OUT of that fight in the Cave, so I am going to go pass out for a day or two."