CHAPTER 38: CONFERENCE AND DINNER

The throne room gates open to reveal at least 12 people entering.

’There are 10 guards and the chief with his daughter... I thought I would have more guards with them’ seems to be no big deal looked at like this, I can say that the chief of the tribe has power equivalent to Elena, so he wouldn’t have any chance of victory if he decided to attack.

They walk up to a few meters from the throne where I’m sitting and bow slightly, Elena who is next to me whispers to me.

"Pandora, we won’t help with the negotiation even if you’re being deceived, in the end the loss wouldn’t be great, so we decided to leave 100% of the negotiation to you so you can gain political experience"

"Ok..." Soon the dragons speak.

"It is an honor and privilege to be in the presence of Your Majesty. My name is Varion Silverleaf, and I am very grateful for the opportunity to meet with you personally to do business."

His tone is respectful and polite, but since Elena never said I can see the emotions of others, they don’t know that lying to me is pointless, the conference has just begun and this guy has already lied to me.

"Tsk" I click my tongue, it’s already obvious what kind of person he is, a false flatterer and liar.

’His color is turquoise...what does that mean?’ I don’t know what that color is since it’s the first time I’ve seen it, it would be great to have a manual or something like that.

"Raise your head" I order as he raises his head and looks directly at me.

"With your permission to speak..." He speaks while leaving the implication for me to give him permission to speak, I nod for him to continue.

"We have come here to renew the agreement we had with the demons, the caravan in the castle courtyard carries a cargo of 10 tons of gold, silver, iron, diamonds, copper, Mithril, rubies, emeralds and titanium."

"..."

’All trash...in the end, as I imagined, the demons only maintain this agreement out of benevolence...’ during my studies I learned that a great alchemist can literally produce common ores with magic, that is, common ores have practically no value to me.

That’s why 10 tons of this is just trash compared to magical ores, and he’s not giving anything in magical ores, in the end this negotiation practically doesn’t favor us.

"You must have a great alchemist" I cite to see his reaction, he trembles slightly as he tries to disguise, probably he thought I was someone naive for only having a few months to live.

"Y-Yes, my daughter here is a great alchemist hahaha, but nothing compared to the great alchemist of the demons..." He speaks trying to disguise, he even tried to reduce the value of his own daughter in my eyes.

’It doesn’t matter, I never expected to gain much from this anyway...’I was slightly disappointed, it’s obvious that I have a total advantage and that even if I don’t do this deal, I won’t lose anything.

"Ok...so what are the basic terms for our meeting after?" This initial conference serves only for him to cite the standard that will dictate the meeting, now I understand why Lilith doesn’t like this and it’s boring, very boring and I don’t like this guy.

’His daughter doesn’t do anything...I thought it would be more interesting but it doesn’t differ from a porcelain doll...tsk pure waste of time, I’d rather be fucking Elena, masturbating or training than wasting time with this’

"Of course, Your Majesty, I would like to maintain the original terms, a 10-ton cargo of minerals every 6 months in exchange for protection for our tribe in times of need."

"Ok...we’ll discuss that at the meeting, now that we’ve been formally introduced, let’s go to dinner..." I say, getting up and guiding them to the dining hall, out of "Etiquette" I should personally guide them instead of entering the shadows.

’That girl... Zephyra Silverleaf...her father didn’t even introduce her, he does everything to make her invisible, and in the end the only reason he brought her here is because he has to show that she is alive in my presence so that the agreement happens’

I think about this girl’s ability, is this a passive? An active? Or a special condition of her eyes, if it’s a special condition, if I tore out her eyes and put them in someone else, would they gain the ability? If her eyes are torn out and regenerated, will they still maintain the function?

If they are transplanted, will they carry the ability or not? There are many doubts, I don’t care about the ability if it’s to conquer someone, I’ll do it with my own power.

But if it’s possible to pass an ability through the transplant of limbs and organs, it would be interesting...although I doubt that passives and actives can be passed in this way.

After all, I noticed this when I had limbs separated from my body, they lose their general functionality, while the magic simply dissipates, so abilities, whether active or passive, don’t stay in lost parts, although racial abilities must stay in the lost limbs.

I got lost in this useless daydream and we arrived at the dining hall. I walk to my seat at the farthest point of the table, soon everyone sits close by based on the hierarchy.

’I didn’t know Freya had a higher position in the hierarchy than Thalor...’ The two people who will sit at the table closest to me are Freya and Calypso, which surprises me and in a way explains the rivalry between the two.

However, Freya is on my right side while Calypso is on the left, showing that Freya is the person with the highest hierarchy outside of me, who is the king.

But Lilith has the highest position outside of me, so if she were here, she would be the one sitting on my right side.

’How would it work for Lilith, Nix and Kaos to sit together here?’ I decide to ignore this question.

"..." I notice how their plates are different, which is obvious, practically everything I eat is based on human meat prepared in some way, I doubt there are many races that eat the same as me.

Ironically, even though I’ve tried various foods, humans are still one of the best, I think it touches a primitive part of me, I like the thrill and feeling of hunting and devouring something still alive and raw.

Although much of what I eat is no longer raw or has been dead for some time.

Zephyra "looks" at my plate in a strange way, it may not seem like it, but anyone who smells the scent can recognize that my plate is a steak made from the chest of a girl, fried and au gratin with honey, onion, garlic, bell pepper, a variety of spices, and then marinated in some drink that I don’t know.

I like this part specifically, I’ve acquired certain preferences when choosing body parts and among them are the breasts of girls, they are soft and juicy, probably because they store fat and nutrients so they are a nutritious, delicious and soft part.

Zephyra is probably uncomfortable seeing me eat a slightly differentiated dish, but I won’t change what I like just to satisfy the tastes of others, she’s lucky I was still generous enough not to serve humans for them to eat.

"Zephyra, what do you think of your plate? Don’t you think you should at least take a bite? My maids spent a lot of time researching and cooking this dish for you, I see you’ve been looking at mine for a while, if you want to switch just tell one of the maids behind you" I say to her in a polite tone.

I look, her color is what I see is a Carmensin color, I’m not sure what that color is but I think it’s anger, I’ve seen that color a few times when the maids fight with each other.

"Forgive me, Your Majesty, I didn’t mean to stare too much, I’m satisfied with this plate, no need to switch" She says as she cuts a piece and puts it in her mouth.

"It’s delicious" She says with a smile.

’False...’ I don’t need to look at the color to know that this smile is fake, but it doesn’t matter, I never expected them to like me. I cut my steak into small cubes and put them in my mouth.

"Hmmm" An involuntary moan of satisfaction as my tail wags, it’s perfect, the juiciness of the chest has reached perfection, it has the right amount of fat, the meat juices are in harmony.

The flavor is wonderful, I’ve never seen the cook, but she is a divine chef, or a divine chef, with such marvelous meats I wonder where they get the "Livestock" that makes this meat.

It’s not possible that they just randomly kidnap people, the quality of all the meats is too perfect for that.

Soon I see the colors of most of the dragons change to greenish while they try their food, and obviously the reason is they are disgusted, so they are lying in their actions to mask the disgust.

Seeing them disgusted by what I eat is a bit annoying, but I understand the reason, so I won’t judge, at least they didn’t say anything and tried to accept it silently, if they had said nonsense, then I wouldn’t let it pass.

"Mr. Varion...ask your daughter to remove that veil now" I say to Varion respectfully but directly.

"Y-You can just call me Varion, Your Majesty...t-the veil of my daughter is so she doesn’t use her ability, I fear it would not be g-good to remove it" He says a little nervously.

"That wasn’t a request, Varion..." something bothers me about this girl’s eyes, I need to see them myself to check, since the moment I saw her, this has been bothering me, if I don’t see this girl’s eyes soon, I’ll just get annoyed.

"I-I understand...daughter, you can remove your veil, but never use your ability, do you hear me?" Varion is already scolding his daughter, I see Zephyra’s color change to a very dark Carmensin.

’So it’s true that she feels a lot of anger and hatred towards her father, that’s stupidity, this guy doesn’t see that letting the girl be angry will only increase her rebelliousness? Sooner or later this girl will explode and do something stupid, and I want to see how this "Father" of the year will fix the mess this girl will make’

She soon removes the veil, I see her beautiful red eyes that match her pink hair, in general she is a girl who can easily be called a beauty, I start to look into her eyes.

’It’s not what I expected...in the end the eyes are not really relevant...’ I initially thought that the eyes would carry her ability, but that’s not the case, in fact, when I look at her magic, it seems normal, so no one was able to notice.

But when I look at her magic and feelings at the same time, I can see as if I had some kind of eye on her magic, basically her ability is in her magic, not in her eyes, her eyes are at most the "tool" that the magic uses to activate.

’In the end she doesn’t even need this veil, it’s impossible for her to activate this unintentionally, after all it’s in her magic’

This answers my question, so I see no more reason to focus on her.

"...I’m done looking, Varion, if you want, you can have her put the veil back on" soon I see her colors change.

’What is she going to do, she seems to have reacted to my speech of returning the veil’ First it turns a deep purple, which disappears and turns cyan, then it turns red and suddenly turns Gold and Turquoise.

’What is she going to do? Why did her feelings vary so much? What is cyan, gold and turquoise?’ She starts to stare at me.

Suddenly I feel a shock as if an electric current ran through my body, I wrap my tail tightly around my abdomen because it suddenly became very agitated, I start to blush as my heart beats fast in my chest.

’Did she use it on me? DAMN...Elena said she didn’t have a chance to use this ability...what do I do, I feel for her the same as I feel for Mikael...now I love both of them...you know what, it doesn’t matter, I just need to make both of them mine, I have enough love to give to both of them...besides, if she used it on me...and why does she love me?’

My tail squeezes my abdomen tightly, I’m glad I didn’t grab the table, with this squeeze the table would break, I never thought I would fall in love twice in such a short time.

I breathe heavily as I try to regain my composure, if she used it on me, she must love me, so one of those 3 colors must be love, so she must have fallen in love at first sight.

The prospect of her falling in love with me at first sight excites me, because it shows that she disobeyed her father’s orders for me.

I don’t care that she used an ability to make me love her, in the end love is just a response to chemical reactions in the brain, so if she loves me, there’s no reason not to love her back.

I try to compose myself, while I can’t stop observing her, she was already beautiful but now she seems divine, I think I’ll declare myself to her before the meeting.