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"Thank you, friend, this is beyond generous of you to give this to me." The earth king takes the soil and I had already cut a piece off of it to let regenerate for my use. It glows brightly as it merges into his body and the whole earth realm takes on new life.
"Your welcome friend, how long do you need to ready yourself to meet water king? I have his crown of wave and want to give it to him while you are there, my goal is to befriend each elemental king so I can acquire the origin source for my friend." He listens patiently and starts nodding when I am done.
"I will be ready in four days, come back then and we can set off." I nod and turn around to teleport away.
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"Alright, so let me get this straight. Raizen contacted both of you to schedule a meeting and he wants it done in his empire because he feels safe there?" This is similar to when Lord Midnight sun sprung his trap and tried to kill everyone to empower himself. I won't be walking into this rat trap of a meeting and dying like a dog.
"Yes, I agreed and so did Shea. It is the perfect chance to move forward and prepare for Abyss with a united front." I nod and feel like my own words have led me to stub my toe.
"It's going to be a trap, not Raizen it's not his style he would just try to outright crush someone and not be a petty bastard. It's his son Teris, he carries the soul of Lord midnight sun and an artifact that will spring and absorb your souls for fuel." They need to know the seriousness of this before we go there, Raizen would just leave the planning to his 'smart' son and that would allow Teris to trap everyone.
"Lord midnight sun is alive?! Why is he working with a second son of the Bloody empire and not helping his own family?" Shea looks like her worldview took a hit and I just pat her on the back, she doesn't enjoy it and elbows me in the ribs.
"He is, the artifact in question saved his soul on a chance encounter and he doesn't view himself as a Lucifer anymore and views himself as the next Demon god. He doesn't even know there are multiple beings infinitely close to claiming that title and would smash him like a bug if he tried to get worshipped as the main god of the demon world." If he saw Satan he would become a god listing to orders and giving up his stupid dream of being a god. Why does he think he is the first to think this up? Wouldn't there already be a new demon god if it was possible, the false gods keep any over-ambitious people from overstepping.
"What else does this artifact do?" I love how my wife doesn't even ask how I know this and instead moves on to handle the threat. It brings a tear to my eye that I wipe away with great difficulty. "Are you ok?" She scrunches her brows and it looks cute but it's time to be professional.
"I am fine, I honestly don't know its full capabilities, and it's better to avoid it altogether. Let Raizen plan his meeting and then last minute we change the venue to a new location and avoid the artifact since it will have to be set up in advance. I will even try to steal it if I get the chance, I can hopefully neutralize its soul-stealing with the artifacts." I can see why Chen Rui didn't get this could invasion protection armor early in the story because it is capable of just rebounding most of the threats in this world. The mask prevents soul control so that plot armor already saved him a lot, but immunity to invasion is straight-up hacks.
The unique ability of the armor even allows me to apply the effect to one person to save their soul as well. So I can bring someone with me to deal with the artifact, likely the resident genius on team devil, Zola.
"Let's do that then, we will have to compensate him for the perceived insult of accusing him last minute to change the location but we can easily afford it." I nod at Shea's conclusion and bring up my next topic.
"I will need to travel to the human world soon to deal with the matter of acquiring materials to finish Olympus. After that, I can start her up and fly her around demon world and show of- I mean I can utilize the city for many beneficial matters." They both deadpan and turn to talk about other things ignoring my plans.
"Boys and their toys." I hear Shea say.
"Little boys and liking to play with big toys." Catherine says and I feel the need to demonstrate the lack of little when it comes to this devil. I stand up and straighten my clothes up, she can get off for now but later she will pay up in full.
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- Raizen POV -
A response came quicker than I thought and it seems they may want peace instead of pushing their advantage. I wouldn't be so merciful but I respect their decision to save their peoples life's, we wouldn't go down easy.
"Teris, plan out the event and make it simple and no fancy nonsense." He nods and quickly leaves and I nod at his enthusiasm.
Now on to the other matter, Tiffany has become even more distant and is making frequent trips to the forbidden library. The upper floors are forbidden unless wearing special equipment and only for a limited time and yet she stays up there for hours.
I need to talk her into being safer, her life is too important to me to lose.
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- Teris POV -
Finally, it's time to get revenge on them all, they look down on me for being weak but after this, I will be stronger than them all. I will be the one true emperor of the Demon world and then even the human world in the future.
"Send the remaining men to excavate the underground of this location and do it discreetly." My minion runs off to do my bidding and I feel one step closer to my goals, my body is weaker than all of you but my mind is the sharpest.
[ Be calm Teris your emotions are reaching me and disturbing my rest, get this done and we will be the ones on top. ] My lord speaks into my mind and I eagerly nod imagining our future.
My lord will become everyone's one true god and I will be his closest direct subordinate as his leading hand guiding the people. A prosperous future awaits us and I can almost taste it, soon.
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- Nova POV -
"Wow, it's so bright!" Kia says as she looks up at the sun.
"It's beautiful." Athena comments as she looks around the field full of different flowers and plants that don't grow in the demon world.
"Your more beautiful." I counter smoothly, can't miss an opportunity to compliment. I hear Alice make a gaging noise at the shameless flirting and I turn to see a bunch of girls looking fed up already. I give a wide smile and summon a new and improved ship at the dock behind us. "Ladies and Ladies I present to you the Titanic!" I reinforced the hull to the point it could tank a hit from a Demigod-rank opponent, let alone an iceberg. I will do the original ship her justice, mine may be tiny in comparison but she is mighty.
"Didn't the Titanic sink tragically on its maiden voyage?" I wave away Delia's rational answer.
"No one knows, but if they did know it would be because the captain pulled a 'hold my beer and watch this' and it didn't pay off. But my ship can take a beating and keep on tugging along, so no worries." Skeptical looks pass through as they give each other unsure looks. "Look, we have wings and can teleport so nothing can go wrong. Like nothing at all can sink this ship so fast that we somehow drown or something." Alice throws out her wings that came from a rook piece and moves them around.
"Whatever, at least we can sunbathe on the deck like in that one show. I hope you prepared the fancy little mirror things and sun tan oil." I pull out four bottles of different ratings and one even has a special surprise infused, I was hoping for this situation. Isabella frowns when she sees me so prepared and takes a step back. "Why do I suddenly have a bad feeling about this." I shake my head and store the bottles before anyone can scan them, surprises are meant to be surprises.
"I don't know what you are talking about but your worries are misplaced." I guide everyone onto the ship like a sheepdog his flock and rub my hands together.