A Visitor

~21 February 2007~

"Come on! Drink Drink! This amount of alcohol will not make me drunk! Bring more!"

Did he didn't know that it was our personal alcohol he was drinking?

Who is the person drinking our alcohol? Well, it was Lugh, the god of the sun of the Celtic pantheon. He came here to talk about trade agreements and offer an alliance between Celtic and the Vongola family, but somehow he turned a formal meeting into a party.

Now with the Dwarves joining the party, the alcohol consumption rate increases by a Two-Hundred percent, and I can predict the other will come to this party as well.

"I'm sorry about this. Lugh always starts this mess every time there is alcohol in the room."

"It's okay, Lady Morrigan. I guess we can have some parties first before we talk about serious business."

"Please call me, Morrigan. Discard that Lady part."

Morrigan, the goddess of Death, War, Fate, and Discord. The great goddess of the Celtic pantheon.

"Of course, Morrigan."

"So, I have been wondering for a while. Why do you have the original Medea on your rank?"

"I beg your pardon?"

"Heh. While you can fool the other, you can't fool me. The girl next to you is not the descendant of Medea or the spirit carrier of Medea but a real Medea of Colchis."

I can feel my back stiffen by hearing her word. How does she know about her real identity?

"I'm a goddess of death, boy. Of course, I can see the difference between spirit carrier or descendant. However, she is neither of those things, and I can see the magic circle of ancient greek from a few kilometers away."

"So, what will you do about it? Will you tell the Greek?"

"Hahahahahaha! Of course not! I hate those bastards, especially that horny Zeus. Don't worry. I will not tell anyone about her."

"Thank you."

"Heh. Just send a few barrels of your strongest alcohol to Ireland."

"... You just want to drink, didn't you?"

"Heh"

"Tch, Irishman, and their drinking problem."

I look at the mess Lugh, and the Dwarves make in their drinking party and smile a little. I like the Celtic people more than the other pantheon. They are more casual than others. The Shinto want us to follow the tradition and make it too formal. The Greeks want us to respect them to the highest level, making speaking to them difficult as they want us to bow to them and give the best item we had to them without giving something in return. The Pendragon family has the same problem, but they are not worse than the Greek pantheon. They see us as a lower rank in nobility because of how the Vongola family is not as well known as the Pendragon family, but they still see us as humans, which allows us to negotiate with them.

On the other hand, the Celtic sees us as a drinking buddy and equal that should be treated with respect, even though their kind of respect is somewhat twisted. They respect us, so they treat us like a drinking buddy. They also didn't beat around the bush and talk straight to the point. They didn't need us to treat them like a God or Goddess that needed to be praised to the high heaven. They only demand one thing, Honesty. They didn't want sweet talk or praise while people spouted lies right and left. They want honest trade and honest friendship. They are a simple being like that.

"So, while ignoring Lugh having his fun over there, can you tell me the reason you ask for this meeting?"

"We want your potions."

"Really? Why?"

"The Land of Shadow has been packed with monsters recently. They become more agitated than usual, and even Scáthach has a problem dealing with them all."

"Scáthach? The queen of Land of Shadow?"

"Yeah. While she is strong, the massive amount of monsters in the Land of Shadow even she cannot fight alone. So we sent our troops to help her, but sadly it was not enough, and many of them were injured, and some of them are on the brink of death. The only thing that can heal them completely is the Phoenix Tear, but it will cost us a lot. The only potion that has the same effect as the Phoenix Tears is your potion. Not only that, your potion is not as expensive as the Phoenix Tears, so we can buy it in bulk without making a dent in our coffer."

Land of Shadow. I read about it in the book inside the library, but it was very different from the one Type-Moon universe had. In the Type-Moon universe, the Land of Shadow is the place where a near God-like residing. While in this universe, the Land of Shadow has a limitless monster that has the power of a High-class being.

However, while they are only a High-Class being, their number is the one that should be feared. The monster in the Land of Shadow will continue to respawn after a certain amount of time. Usually, it ranges from one minute to ten days. The monster inside the Land of Shadow also reached almost ten million monsters, and usually, they are docile and will not attack unless people approach them.

The only thing that makes them agitated is…

"Monster wave…"

"You… How do you know that?"

"I read it in the book."

"... You didn't lie to me. So you really read it in a book."

"Yes"

"I see. So will you sell us the potions?"

"Sure. After this party, I will write a document about our trade agreement."

"Will you also give us a discount?"

"Nope"

"Even… If I let you do something to my body?"

"Nope"

"Awwww."

Sorry Morrigan, but I already have six women. I don't need any more women in my life. Pleasuring six is already hard enough for me, and you want to join? With your Divine stamina? No, thank you.

"But we will lift the limit of these potions. You can buy 60 per year."

Yeah, I decided to limit the potion people can buy. 15 potions per year for a pantheon or faction—3 potions for a Magician group, and one potion per individual. We also put a failsafe for people that have Ophis snake inside their bodies. If the people have an Ophis snake or any Ophis power inside their body, it will turn into poison and destroy their body from the inside out.

We also closely monitor the potions sold to the other. We didn't sell them to all people, but a select few, and even a Pantheon and Faction did spare from this rule. You can ask the Greek Pantheon as they are the ones that make me annoyed enough for their arrogance that I cut any tie of Trade with them and their merchants. They keep saying that Romania is their domain or something like that.

Well, this is not the time to think about that. This is the time to enjoy ourselves at this surprise party.

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*Morrigan POV*

"What do you think about this city, Morrigan?"

I look at Lugh, who is completely fine even after drinking all the dwarves under the tables. Right now, we are in the guest room Lexian provides for us.

"It is nice."

"I know, right? At first, I thought it was just a rumor, but look like the rumor about this city is true."

City of Comfort, City of Rainbow, and the City of Harmony. That is the title this city has. That title is created by the people that visit this place and spread it across the world, and I must say that the rumor about this city is correct.

"So! What are you two talking about when I have a drink competition with the Dwarves?"

"Our trade agreement. The young lord agreed to sell their potions to us and even let us buy 60 potions this year."

"That is good, right?"

"Yes, but there is something that makes me nervous."

"Oh? The goddess of Death and War, nervous?"

"He somehow knows about the monster wave of Land of Shadow."

"What? Are you sure?"

"Yes"

Land of Shadow is our greatest mistake and fortune. It was intended to create another dimension where we can train our believer, but instead, it becomes a monster dimension that keeps spawning monsters every time we kill one of them. The dimension also becomes more and more powerful as time passes by. At first, it only had a thousand monsters, but gradually it began to spawn new types of monsters, making their number increasing every year. Right now, the total number of monsters in the Land of Shadow is Ten Million of monsters. Lucky for us, they only have the power of High-Class beings.

This is the reason why the Land of Shadow is our greatest mistake. Not only the number of monsters keep increasing if the other faction knows about this, but they will also see us as a threat in fear of the Land of Shadow being breached and making the monster inside attack the human world. It will cause a war between factions and weaken our force defending the Land of Shadow.

Right now, the world only knows that the Land of Shadow as the realm where I judge Celtic people, and the one defending the gate to the Land of Shadow is Scáthach, the Queen of Land of Shadow.

However, The Land of Shadow is also the fortune for our faction. The soil in the Land of Shadow is VERY fertile. If someone took the soil to the human world and planted a plant on the said soil, it would boost the said plant's growth by a hundred percent.

Not only that, the monsters inside the Land of Shadow have a core inside their body. This core can be used as a fuel to any magic equipment we have, and not only that, it also can be used as a training item. It can increase someone's magic by a little amount, but it only works for a certain amount of people, and not all of them can ingest the wild magic inside the core. That is why our faction did not grow in size even though many magicians want to join our personal rank.

"So, what should we do?"

"We do nothing. Lexian already promised me not to spread the news everywhere."

"I see…. Also, Lexian? Really?"

"Shut up!"