Hall

"You should dress up more often Vlas, you're looking good!" remarked Duaparc, since the both of them were about to go to the meeting they had to dress up for the occasion.

He was wearing a dark three piece suit minus the jacket, a tie of matching color and grey shirt, his mask giving the impression that he was going to make someone play a game.

"Meh" was all he said.

Duaparc was wearing a dark fancy dress that covered up until the neck up, giving her an haughty look.

"Alright, let's go, make sure to look extra menacing and growl at people" she said.

"I will not growl, Duaparc" he said back.

"You're not funny Vlas" she spoke, laughing as she imagined it in her head.

She then opened up a door that was in her office revealing a room with a complicated magic circles drawn on the ground, walls and even cealing, it was a teleportation circle, each clan leader that mattered had one in their office.

Both of them stepped in the middle of the room and after a bit, the circles shined and after feeling like they were falling, they arrived in another similar room they were in before teleporting.

Exiting said room and they found themselves in a gorgeous and very shiny hall with many tables filled with food of all kinds.

"Is there always a buffet for every single of your serious meetings?" asked Vlasfimia.

"I don't know, I usually skip" answered Duaparc, shrugging her shoulders.

Looking around for a bit, a wicked smile formed on her face as she noticed some people who had already arrived.

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Meydil had been brought here by the leader of his clan to quote, unquote 'man up' socially and he was feeling like he was slowly dying being surrounded by so many stranger, he had never managed this kind of things well at all, it hadn't changed even after starting a new life.

From the corner of his sole eye, he noticed a scary duo approaching toward his position or it would be more accurate to say they were approaching his leader and the other leader she was talking to.

He would have told her about them but she was talking to someone else and interrupting people was physically impossible for him to do intentionally, so he just stood there even more immobile than usual.

"Hey girls, it's been a while" spoke the woman dressed in a dark dress as she approached them.

Meydil's leader was clearly a bit taken aback while the other leader, the one with the thick brows seemed pleasantly surprised.

"Indeed, when was the last time you showed up for a meeting?" asked Kolmin, the woman with thick brows, the leader of the clan called Valiance.

"Why are you here?" questioned Meydil's leader, a woman with a pair of antennas on her head, the leader of the very diverse clan called Alliance, Alistah.

As the three leader started speaking, Meydil, who had been the only one sticking around until now was now left with the absolute unit that was accompanying the newly arrived woman who he guessed was another clan leader.

The dude seemed to be over two meter tall and looked to be twice as large as Meydil, the guy also wore a mask that had no hole for anything on it, making him question if he could actually see anything.

"You must be part of Alliance, right?" asked the man, sounding both friendly and menacing at the same time to Meydil, who started sweating as he was forced into a social situation.

"Y-Y-Y-Yes" he managed to say, he felt proud that he managed to say something.

"Mmmh, are you the only one your leader brought?" then asked the masked man.

"Yes..." he said, repeating the same word again was easier than the first time.

"Shame" remarked the man out loud.

'Shame? Why shame?' wondered Meydil, this guy was weird.

"Say, that eye of yours is pretty fucking big, you must be one those magic cyclops, right?" then asked the strange man.

"Eeeer, yes" it was going fine for now, as long as the answer was yes it would be fine.

The man stopped talking for a while before turning his head to Meydil again, the cyclop couldn't see it but he could feel that the man was smiling, he didn't why but he was certain that he was.

"Hehehe" the man chuckled for a bit.

"What is your name? Mine's Vlasfimia, you can call me Vlas" spoke Vlas.

"M-M-Mey-" the answer was not yes, he was completely lost.

"Alright Mey, since you're a member of Alliance, you must see a lot of people of all shapes and forms, right?" spoke Vlas, cutting Meydil before he could say his full name.

"Hum, yes?" Meydil was a bit confused by where he was going with this.

"You don't strike me as very confident in yourself, so let me teach you the way" said the masked man as he put his arm around the cyclops shoulder and started dragging him around.

"W-What way?" confusion was clearly visible on his face at this point.

He looked back at his leader and seeing that she was not going to help him, he braced himself for what was about to come.

"The way to pick up girls from every species" spoke the man.

"Wha" in his confusion, Meydil forgot a letter of the word he said, did this guy say that he was going to teach him the way to pick up monster girls?

Absolutely ridiculous but definitely interesting, Meydil social awkwardness seemed to forget its own existence.

"I'm listening" he said clearly, he was going to learn something of utmost importance and Vlas was going to have fun, everyone would benefit from this.

Meanwhile, was Meydil was getting corrupted by Vlasfimia's sweet words, Duaparc was having a discussion with some old friends.

"I'm only here because the topics today are interesting, hasn't been the case for years" responded Duaparc, eyeing Alistah's antennas.

"Can I touch them?" she then suddenly asked.

"No" flatly responded Alistah like she had done many times in the past.

"Kolmin?" Duaparc then turned to the other leader present.

"Alright" she responded and Duaparc started rubbing her brows.

"Both of you are fucking weirdos" spoke Alistah.

"I'll remind you that some officials of the holy order will be present today, so would you acting like normal people at least for today?" she then sincerily asked to no avail.

The leader of Rush, Malahad was going to go talk to them and say hello but clearly, he didn't want to be a part of whatever was happening so he casually walked away in the opposite direction.