74 Party, Ambassadors, Harem, Children and Wine?

Right now I am sitting together with Carne and Mawu at a table. We arranged a big hall in my crystal palace for about sixty people. Mostly just ambassadors and their confidants. 

I was concerned about Carne. But not any more. Looking at him I believe it's very unlikely for him to be manipulated by the Council from behind the scenes.... 

"We are fellow rulers aren't we? So why do you have just one woman!? Isn't there a whole world of them for you?" Carne takes another sip of the expensive wine, while trying to hold onto the four girls, who are his confidants. 

Carne has steel blue hair and looks like an average human in his thirties. Strangely enough he could be some guy from next door, if it wasn't for his gaudy clothes. 

He is an idiot! His community should be called the Carne Harem and not the Carne Empire! Why do these girls stay with him? It can't be because this alcoholic is a prince charming. 

"But I have to admit that your wife is quite the hot device if I found someone like her, I could go monogam for a little while too." -Carne 

I smile at him. "If you even look at her, you will wish yourself back to the times when you were a mortal." Why did I say that? 

"Aw! Come on. Don't be so bound up!" -Carne 

"It's rude to say something like that to your host." -Girl number one 

"Yes honey, don't make a ruckus here." -Girl number two 

"Yes. Yes. My lovely birds! Carne would never do something to make a woman sad!" -Carne 

"Maybe your girlfriends are the true rulers of your community in reality." Mawu takes a sip of his drink and closes his eyes to savour the taste. 

"THAT! Can't be ruled out!" Carne points to the sky and takes a comical pose. 

"Back to the topic. Are you sure that the Council members, who fell into your hands don't know what's going on?" -Mawu 

"It's unfortunate, but it's true. Enyo's mind is toast. After looking at her for quite a while the healers are sure of that. It's the same for El Shaddai's soul. That I blew it to pieces didn't really help. After we pieced it back together, there wasn't much more to do than releasing him as a mortal again." I shrug my shoulders. 

"Hoh? You released him!?" -Carne 

"He was reborn in a medieval world as a female slave." I take a sip of my drink while the others stare at me. 

"I am sure you had a hand in that?" -Mawu 

"Karma is a bitch. Making me angry doesn't help either." I grin viciously at them. "As for Tjenemit." I take out my Tjenemit globe and show it to them. 

-I told the master everything, I swear!- 

-This unworthy one doesn't know anything more than he already told- 

-The trash is ready to be redeemed by reincarnating as a mortal.- 

-The grace of god would be limitless if this one was allowed to die and reincarnate as a mortal.- 

-Forgetting this one's path to salvation would be the greatest mercy.- 

-This one awaits the end of his …... 

I put the globe back into my pocket. "As you can hear, he isn't really helpful. He wasn't influenced by this black hole thing. His mind is still intact. Though I don't understand the reason for it." 

"You, mister! Know some evil spells! I never would have imagined to see a Council member begging to return to the cycle of life and death. And we really need a better name for that black hole thing. Calamity doesn't really strike it either. Those Ascended had a bad naming sense." Carne salutes me with his glass. 

"That didn't sound like his mind is still intact. But I understand your point. And about the name, how about Mind Fuser?" -Mawu 

"Too complicated." Carne scratches his cheek. "How about just Fusion? It's a conglomerate of souls, which are fused together." -Carne 

"I don't really care about the name. As long as we have the same opinion about how to deal with it."  -Me 

"Crush on sight!" -Carne 

Mawu nods and enjoys another sip of his wine. "I could get addicted to this wine. Where did you get it." 

"It's a pretty expensive creation from a very well known winery on this planet. Drinking it every day would make even me a poor guy in no time." -Me 

"I still have to get some of it for my collection." Mawu takes another sip. 

Looking around, I find Celes with the ambassador for the Gaian Pact, who is an old cranky woman with white hair. 

They are together with the ambassador for the Unity, who is a strange fellow. He decided to alter his physique to the point where you could think that he is on the brink of starving to death. The blue and red stripes of veins are visible on his almost white skin. 

Gods are often an eccentric bunch and they like to express it by using spells to change their appearance, but this guy tops most of the extremes I know of. 

Probably they are talking about the best approach to create another planet for gods. 

The ambassador for the Arcane Community is disinterestedly listening to them. He looks like a cyborg out of a bad movie. His right arm is completely mechanical and steam puffs out of two exhaust pipes on his back. 

At least the rest of him looks relatively normal. 

The girl who is speaking for the Path is talking to some guys who belong to various other, smaller factions. She looks very young. Just twelve or thirteen at most. Many gods like it to hide their age but she overdoes it. 

Suddenly someone tugs on my sleeve and I turn around. 

"Daddy! Can I go to Sandra's place and play with the quintuplets?" Seria looks up to me. 

"Kyaa! So cute! Is that one of the rumoured children?" -Girl number four 

"Carne! I want one too!" -Girl number two 

Drops of sweat are forming on Carne's forehead. "That's not so easy..." 

"How old are you?" Girl number three bends down to Seria. 

"Next month I will be eight and my brother is nine!" Seria gives them her cute little princess smile. Of course I know that it's completely fake! She is still a false snake. When she is grown up I will have a lot of trouble with her boyfriends. That's for sure. 

"Kyaa! Carne! We need one like that!" Girl number one 

"That's not so easy!" Carne's face distorts a little. 

He sounds like a broken gramophone record. Did the mentioning of kids fry his brain? 

Kukuku.... A harem is very desirable as long as you don't have to deal with kids, right? Well surprise! On this planet children are included in the relationship! That's what your stupid talk about me and more women is worth hmm? 

"Actually it's very easy! You just have to forget about birth control and do him. Afterwards you stay for about two weeks on this planet. That should be enough time for a soul to catch hold of the fetus." I smile at the ladies, whose eyes are beginning to sparkle. "And if you want to make sure, you should look for my wife and get some of her chocolate for him." 

Carne looks at me like I just hammered the last nail into his coffin. 

Then I turn to Seria. "And where is your brother?" I look around with a concerned expression. 

"He went for that girl. He said he likes the older ones!" Seria points towards the ambassador for the Path. The ambassador is looking with a troubled expression at Aengus who is talking to her unconcernedly. Maybe she will think over her appearance in the future? 

"Maybe you should join him and the girl. She is a strange one and a little lonely at this party. It would be a big help Seria." I pat my daughter's head. 

"Really? No problem daddy! We will show her how to have fun! And I will introduce you to the quintuplets some other time Mr. Mawu. The last time I tried to, you just disappeared for no apparent reason." Seria runs off into the ambassador's direction. 

"You... are an evil man." Mawu smiles at me while the left half of his face twitches a little. Seems like he still remembers his long and through discussion with Seria about gods and the world and where the children come from. 

He didn't realize that Seria was just playing with him and perfectly knows the answers to those questions. Mawu fell into the assumption that Seria and Aengus are like normal children of mortals. 

Then I avert my gaze from Aengus and Seria, who are pestering the ambassador for the Path. 

"Huh? Where did Carne go?" The ruler of the Carne Empire is gone! 

"While you looked away his four confidants carried him off like a cow on its way to the slaughterhouse." Mawu shrugs his shoulders and takes another sip. 

"Hah! We won't see him before tomorrow then." I grin while I see one of Carne's girls skipping towards the exit. She has a very familiar small box in her hand and is humming something. 

"You are an evil man. I am repeating myself... . Do you think he will start to curse his harem?" -Mawu 

"That's for sure. That's for sure." I grin while I think about it. "Maybe one or two of them will have twins or triplets?" 

"You are drawing a very dark picture of his future." -Mawu 

We continue to drink wine and talk about everything of interest throughout the multiverse....