Demon Continent Alsace in 291 after the Shattering of the Empire

With some day's distance, he could say better what had happened when the demon had knocked back the tarpaulin to use them all against the adults so that they stop resisting and let themselves be captured.

Of course, he hadn't thought of it right away, how could he have. There had been no living member of the family who had ever activated the blood of the Basilisk. Except for the founder of House Basilisk, who had slain said Basilisk and adopted its abilities.

In the formative days of the Empire, a time which was written down, but which nevertheless lay in the distant past.

Who could have guessed that there was a spark of truth in the family legend. Whereby he should have known better, he had reached level ten. A level, which was also only known from records from the founding days of the empire.

But who could have known that the abilities of a Titan inherited in his family would be taken into his next life.

Once again, he could only shake his little head to try to detach himself from his reality. Again, the three sisters did not want this to happen to him. Thus, he could only continue to observe the hustle and bustle in front of the wagon's stand. Which Sappho and Sia were running.

Something he had already done the last few days.

What the two operated one could probably not call a stand or store, since the two operated a puppet theater. They seemed to perform various locales fairy tales with lots of jokes and shenanigans and a good dose of meanness.

Thus, all public servants were ridiculed or were absurdly incompetent to prevent the stealing of bread and the like. Sometimes they even paid the thief for the stolen goods. Or stories were told of brave demons who went into battle against monsters and villains to save a beloved demon or for the sake of luck.

It was also told how the demons came into being or stories of other gods of the pantheon and their emergences or escapades in the mortal world.

It was clear to him what was being accomplished with these performances, not that he could disagree, much less wanted to. He had never learned so much about the demons as he had in the last few days.

They resembled those of humans, only that the gods were different and that the law was based on the strength of the individual than on the good in people and the ability to rise above themselves. Even if this was to a certain degree also a topic.

But this had been expected. After all, they were demons and he was a former human, the cultures had to be different, already because of the different gods and histories of origin.

Demons were created from the blood and ashes of a long-forgotten war between the gods, in which Asmodus and Lilith had fought on opposite sides. Their blood and the ashes of the deceased gods and creatures had given birth to the Demons. After which both of them, as parents of the demons, had stopped fighting to watch over their new children. Over the following millennia, other demonic gods were added.

Until it came to the war against the enslaver, Meinoume. In which the demons lost their former demon realm and since then live fragmented on Alsace. Waiting for the true rulers of Alsace to take the throne again. Since that day Meinoume has been lying in wait, waiting for Asmodus and Lilith to make a mistake. ... Wah" with that, Sia had jumped forward, causing the children all to cry out and the adults to laugh.

"Thank you." With that, she bowed and pointed to Sappho, who then bowed as well. The children stomped on the floor and clapped their hands.

"Thank you." With that, they both bowed one more time. With great murmurs and mutterings, the children headed home with their parents.

"Ah, that was another successful day." Sia beamed at Sappho. She was taking everything down and putting it away for the night.

"Yes. "She turned to him. - "What did you think of today's performance, little Cali." Already he was being picked up and carried around.

"Cali say, Lilith... Come try it." This was one thing that was new Sappho and Sia always asked her to recite names from their plays.

Gladly complying with that request, he tried today's word.

"Li, L, Lllilllth. Liliiith, Lilitttthhh." Whereby some spittle flew, but this did not seem to bother the two further these only wished him luck and encouraged him to continue, so he went on and on, while they so strolled through the camp. Well he didn't, he was just taken for a stroll. In the end, he got a quite passable "Lilithhh", which was quite close to the right one. So he thought, and so did Sappho and Sia.

The day after their arrival, Sappho and Sia had already taken him around the city. After they had recovered from their stressful night. The same had been necessary for him. The basilisk's gaze had cost him a lot of arcane energy. But then they had shown him the city and introduced him to everything with names, after which she had recited them to him again and again until he repeated them and could pronounce them somewhat correctly.

They had done this the last few days too, only not today, today there seemed to be other plans.

He could see that all the others in the camp also wandered to a certain point. From the murmurings of the bystanders, he could gather that there was a meeting. One that he could attend, even if it was by chance.

He could already guess what exactly it would be about. Using his basilisk gaze, he had dared to look into the attacker's head and had been surprised when he managed to do so more easily than ever before. This suggests that said demon is more often exposed to mental attacks and his mind already did not resist at all. In fact, he is so used to them that he needs them like an addict needs his drug.

Sappho and Sia made their way through the throng of demons to get a better look further ahead. Just as they arrived further ahead, Panos and Naima emerged from their tent.

Both, along with others of the group, seemed to be offering their fighting prowess to eliminate monsters or other problems with force. This explained why each member of the group was armed and had armor, they seemed to act like the militia in his old life.

Momentarily silence fell, everyone present anxiously awaiting news from their two leaders.

"We talked to the Dikili Tash City Council and presented them with our evidence, which only meant showing them the bodies of our attackers. Furthermore, we told them about the incident with the priest of Meinoume. However, since this is a city with a large community of followers of Meinoume, little attention was paid to our accusations." Stronger murmurs were heard and a certain restlessness set in.

Both leaders waited until everyone had calmed down enough to continue talking. This time Naima did the talking, for them.

"Those were their words, not ours. Unfortunately, this has meant that we are only allowed to stay in Dikili Tash for three more days. After these, we must be gone." Louder murmurs than before sporadically already shouts became loud. Calls against the injustice, that it was not their fault, but that of the others and why they had to answer for the mistakes of the others.

This time it took quite a while for the tempers to calm down enough for one of the two leaders to continue talking.

"I do understand you.-" Panos began, only to be interrupted by a torrent of angry comments. This is why he simply talked over them in a loud voice.- "I don't like this any more than you do. This is why he simply talked over them in a loud voice. - "I don't like this any more than you do. Nevertheless, we must abide by the laws of the cities in which we dwell. We are, after all, dependent on their goodwill." He gave his wife a help-seeking look.

"That's enough!" She thundered out, instantly silencing everyone. She let her gaze sweep over those present before continuing.

"You know how it is, which is why I won't bother explaining it to you again. And you also know that we are only approved. One wrong step by us or other families and we have forfeited our lives of freedom. At best we will be killed, at worst we will end up as slaves."She let these words hang over the heads of those present for a few breaths.

"Therefore, we can only accept the city's demand with dignity and hope that they will be more kind to us next time." With that, she looked at her husband, who nodded at her and continued.

"Three days we have left, after that, we must be gone, so bring all your business to an end so that we can leave here without any problems. We have also already received a new order, we will accompany merchants to Kirra." With that, he ended and sets about disappearing into his tent.

"To Kirra, mmm.-" Sia made a thoughtful sound.- "Isn't that near the colonies of the other races?"

"Yes, it seems we are moving to the front."