[Luna POV]
After lunch, we continued walking down the road. I was about to start singing a little to stave off the boredom when my presence detection skill started going off. I used my space magic to see what was coming and noticed what it was.
“When I say down, all of you drop flat to the ground, we have company closing in fast from the sky.” (Luna)
They all nodded at my words and prepared to move. After a few more seconds the monster was close enough.
“Down!” (Luna)
All three of them dropped flat and I jumped and did a backflip over the monster. Since it didn’t expect us to dodge it, it was surprised and slammed into the ground.
“SSSKKKRRREEEEEEEEEEE!”
“Big bird. I wonder what it tastes like?” (Luna)
It tried to get up, but I froze it to the ground.
“Soleil, how about you add some heat?” (Luna)
“Shouldn’t we pluck it first?” (Soleil)
“Just burn the feathers off, I’ll keep it cool enough so the meat doesn’t burn.” (Luna)
The both of us had hungry grins on our faces that seemed to intimidate the bird. It started to struggle even more against the ice keeping it grounded to no avail.
“Yol-Toor.” (Soleil)
The bird went up in flames while I regulated the heat with my ice. When the flames engulfed it, it died instantly and soon after a nice smell started wafting about. I pulled some salt out of my inventory and sprinkled it onto the cooking bird.
“While I’m not going to complain, didn’t we literally just eat lunch?” (Velvet)
“So, are you just going to pass on a meal that delivered itself to you?” (Luna)
“Like I said, I’m not complaining, just curious about why the first thing you thought of is eating the thing once you saw it.” (Velvet)
“If you look at Ophidia, your question should be answered.” (Luna)
She did as I said and looked over to Ophidia. She had a crazed look in her eyes that she only ever got when we ate something I put effort into making good.
“Hehehehehe. To think I would run into one of these so far from home.” (Ophidia)
“You know what this is Ophidia?” (Velvet)
“I don’t know the name, but I do know that these are delicious. These hardly ever left their nests on the mountain peaks, so I rarely ever caught one, but when I did, I enjoyed them immensely.” (Ophidia)
“Think this was the monster that was reported in the area?” (Soleil)
“Possibly.” (Luna)
I walked up to the now cooked bird and tore a piece off. I ate it and was surprised.
“Oooooh. Even with just salt, this is great. Not as good as wyvern, but better than something like high orc.” (Luna)
The others came over and ripped a piece off for themselves.
“You’re right.” (Soleil)
“I agree.” (Velvet)
I looked at Ophidia since she didn’t say anything and saw tears of joy flowing like rivers down her face.
“Want me to save the rest for later Ophidia?” (Luna)
“Mhmmm. Mmm. Hmmm. Mhmmmm.” (Ophidia)
“I’ll take that as a yes.” (Luna)
I stored the rest of the bird and we started on our way again. After that, we had another uneventful few days. Right now, we were walking up a large hill. When we reached the top, we could see a town in the distance.
“That should be the town of Mid. Do you guys want me to fold space to get us there faster, or do you want to walk like we have been?” (Luna)
“““Fold space.”””
“A unanimous decision. Actually, before I do that, do you want to try Ophidia?” (Luna)
“I can’t do that yet master.” (Ophidia)
“Oh. Anyway, lets go.” (Luna)
Everyone grabbed onto me, and I folded space. We ended up half a mile away from the wall.
“Why did you choose this spot rather than right in front of the wall?” (Soleil)
“I didn’t want to surprise any guards.” (Luna)
“Makes sense.” (Soleil)
When we got to the town, we ended up in a line. There were several merchant wagons in front of us, but the checks were efficient and we only waited for an hour before making it into the town. The guards’ reaction when they saw me and Velvet’s guild cards was hilarious. One of them even wanted to show us around, but we turned him down and just asked for directions to an inn. He told us where to go and we made our way there.
“While I don’t mind camping, it’ll be nice to sleep in a bed.” (Velvet)
At Velvet’s words, we all nodded our heads in agreement. Then after a few minutes of silence, Ophidia spoke up.
“Come to think of it master, you have infinite mana now, right?” (Ophidia)
“Yes.” (Luna)
“Couldn’t you have made an illusory house and given it physical form instead of us needing to camp out in tents?” (Ophidia)
“…” (Luna)
“Master?” (Ophidia)
All three of them looked at me because I stopped after hearing Ophidia’s question.
“I never considered that. I’m so used to not being able to do that without Tamamo’s help that it completely slipped my mind. I feel like an idiot now.” (Luna)
“It’s ok big sis, it’s not like we hate camping out. If anything, it’s more fun in tents than a portable or illusory house.” (Soleil)
“While I agree with you, if some people from my previous world heard that, they would think you were crazy.” (Luna)
“Really?” (Soleil)
“Yep. In that world, camping can be seen as a leisure activity. People even make portable homes just for the sake of camping.” (Luna)
“Did you ever do any of that?” (Soleil)
“Several times, both in a tent and a mobile home.” (Luna)
“Interesting. Which one did you prefer?” (Velvet)
“Depended on where I went. Hotter places I preferred the mobile home, cooler the tent. Though my favorite places to camp were mountains.” (Luna)
{I see. Maybe I’ll change the scenery here a bit then.}
‘As long as you keep the tree, then go for it.’
{Of course.}
“Speaking of trees, the next time we go back to the island, want to help me find a good place to plant the Lunar Sakura seed?” (Luna)
“Sure.” (Soleil)
“Sounds like a good idea to me.” (Velvet)
“What’s a Lunar Sakura?” (Ophidia)
“Think of it as a magical tree that is very pretty.” (Luna)
“Then I’ll help as well.” (Ophidia)
As we continued to chat, we came up to the inn. It was fairly large at five stories tall. We went inside and paid for a room with three beds. On the way to our room, we passed by two employees that were arguing with each other. They both stopped when we passed by them and up the stairs. As soon as we entered the room, we all sat on a bed and relaxed for a few minutes.
“Does everyone else think we should take a break from travelling tomorrow and look around the town for the day?” (Luna)
“I second the notion.” (Velvet)
“I’ll agree to it as well.” (Soleil)
“What was it you said earlier today master? A unanimous decision?” (Ophidia)
“Yep. It means we all agree on what to do.” (Luna)
“Then the decision to take a break tomorrow is unanimous.” (Ophidia)
-Back downstairs-
[Mordred POV]
“That was them.” (Mortem)
“I know.” (Mordred)
“Finally. Now all that’s left to do is put the plan in motion, so don’t get in my way.” (Mortem)
I was about to say something back to him when I suddenly felt dizzy.
“What?” (Mordred)
“Don’t think I don’t know you, Mordred. I know you were planning on going and spilling everything to then in order to get rid of me and my brother, so I decided to get you out of the picture as well. Of course, I don’t plan on killing you yet, I haven’t gotten to torture you for all the humiliation you put me through throughout the years, so for now, just sleep.” (Mortem)
As my consciousness started to fade, I managed to say one final thing.
“Heh. I can’t wait…to see…you fail.” (Mordred)
I saw a look of fury on his face just as my vision went black.
Chaos Realm:
Tamamo: Does Mordred know more than she let's on?
No, I think she was just trying to set Mortem off. He's a prideful one, so any insinuation of him failing will make him angry.
Skadi: Doesn't Mordred think he would just kill her on the spot then?
They've known each other for years, so she knows how to push his buttons in just the right way to make him mad, but not mad enough to kill her on the spot.
Grey: Aside from that, I don't think they'll keep their plan for exploring the town the next day.
Skadi: I get the same feeling. I do wonder how well his plan will go though.
Tamamo: With Luna's healing magic, I don't see any future where he succeeds.
Skadi: I had the same thought, but I guess we'll just have to see.
Grey: Any input from you?
Nope. If I say anything, it'll ruin what will happen for everyone here.
Atmos: Hey, do you have any more lemons? I'm making a giant cake to drop on Tamamo's stalker and I need more.
I'll go get them, how many do you need?
Atmos: As many as you can bring me.
Got it.
"69,420 Lemon Shipment here for a Payto?"
Do I need to sign anything?
@Paytoechip no, just give our regards to the unwilling recipient.
@Paytoechip
Delivery of 100% pure lemon juice from 30,580 happy lemons to Payto
Please have the involuntary recipient sign it
when paytoe gives you lemons don't make lemonade....etc. invent a combustible lemon that burns delusional vamps house down.... LOLOLOLOLOLOL HEHEHEHEH
Thanks for the chapturr~
Lemons... Why do I kept thinking about angry Cave Johnson with lots of Lemon Grenade?
You could say he has... lemonades.
did i read that correctly and they didn't gut or blead out the bird? they simply froze it to the ground and then heated it? isnt that super Nono in cooking?
Shhhh. Just think something was done with magic.
None of them are human either. They don't got some weak-sauce stomachs.
Not bleeding and gutting the meat is bad, not plucking or killing it first is fine... level 10 cooking tips from Luna?
*I open a portal that is overing horizontally above the ground. I jump through it and land on my feet.* Hello everybody! Glad to be back.*the portal closes.*
I heard you needed some lemons, Atmos? I got some from a company where they were selling them super cheap in big quantity because they were liquidating everything from their storage. A pretty good bargain. I can even show you a picture. I just need you to show me your "isolation room", and I can put up a portal in it and put all those lemons there. Here, I'll show you you the content of my warehouse.
*I go near Atmos, bring out my phone and show her all of my lemons.* I think I have more than 100 of thousands of lemons in there. Obviously, I'm not doing this for free. If you can make... twenty lemon cheesecakes for me, everything is yours for the taking. What do you say?
Atmos: They’ll be done by tomorrow, follow me.
*Atmos then proceeds to show Claytonto her isolation room for the delivery*
@Paytoechip *We enter in the room through a door in the hallway* Oh wow! This is pretty spacious! I thought previously that this would be some kind of void, but I never thought I would see this!
*I stand there, amazed at how big the place is. I can see a big kitchen on my right with various sizes of kitchen utensils. I can also see a pot that was 2 meters tall and a stove matching the size. In front of me is a big library on the left, with a lounge on the right. And on my left, there is a gigantic storage space filled with shelves. I can also see a big Metal door with a window at the opposite end of a straight path through those shelves. It's dark inside. I look behind me, and the door from where we entered was nowhere to be found. The walls where minimum 6 meters tall.*
This is amazing! But is it normal that the door behind us is gone?
@Clayton4956 Atmos: Yep. Don’t worry though, it’ll show up again. Eventually.
@Paytoechip Ok then. (that is absolutely not ominous.......) Sooo, I just have to teleport all those boxes of lemons on those shelves, right?
@Clayton4956 Atmos: Yep. Also, you really don’t need to worry about the door thing, you’ll end up teleported out of the room soon anyway. This room only allows other people in for like ten minutes at most. Wouldn’t really be an isolation room if it did.
@Paytoechip Interesting. I was going to use a portal if there was no door, but cool. I'll get to it then.
*I create a portal in level of every shelves and so, the shelves were quickly filled. While I was filling those, I asked Atmos a question.*So Atmos, if you can cook so well, I guess there are a lot of cooking books in library, right? *There's no reply. I turn my head-* Atmos? Is everything ok?... ATMOS! *-to see Atmos watching what I do in a daze. I yell at her, releasing her from that trance.*
Atmos: Ah! Yes? What is it?
I asked if there was a lot of cooking books in your library, seeing that you were a good cook and confectioner.
*Atmos looks again to the shelves with amazement in her eyes, before replying.*
@Clayton4956 Atmos: I guess there are a few. A lot of those books are actually archives. Part of being the Goddess of Fate means that I have to archive stuff. If you went and looked through those, which I highly recommend against doing, you will see the record of everything that has and possibly will happen. I know that that sounds like that would be more Gear’s line of work, but it’s more a collaboration.
@Paytoechip So everything is recorded in that library? Damn, that means it's even bigger than it looks like. But you were in a daze there for a bit. Did I do something wrong?
@Clayton4956 Atmos: No, I was just wondering how you did that. I mean the only people who should be able to do anything like that in this room are me, Payto, and Luna when she gets her full Space Authority.
@Paytoechip I don't really know. When I think of doing something and I imagine it enough, I feel like I'm able to do absolutely anything I want, or that the process to achieve what I want to do is ingrained in my mind and then I do things naturally, like I always have done all those things. It's really a weird feeling, to have all that knowledge put in your head.
I have some hypothesis, but it's not really anything conclusive. For one, my soul belongs to another dimension entirely. So there may be something about that.
Another thing is that this body, or vessel, was made when I came from my world. So it may have been created from the chaos from Payto's place.
Those are some leads, but there's a lot of other questions after them. I tend to not worry about it. My head would hurt if I did. Maybe I'll talk about it with Payto, but not right now.
There! Finished! That was pretty rough. I'll come back for the cakes tomorrow. I'll go and say good bye to Payto and go home. I've got some things to do.
@Clayton4956 *As Clayton’s finished speaking, he disappeared from Atmos’s isolation room and appeared in the living room.*
@Paytoechip *I shiver because of the sensation of forced teleportation* uuurgh... That was really unpleasant.
Oh, Payto! * I go next to Payto as he makes his way to the kitchen.* I finished with Atmos. I wanted to say good bye because I had some things to do at home and that I'll come back tomorrow for the cakes Atmos will make. So, good bye.* I turn to everybody else in the room, as they were watching Mortem finishing putting his plan in motion.* Bye everyone! See you tomorrow!
@Clayton4956 *Everyone aside from Tamamo waves goodbye.*
@Paytoechip *I wave back and create a portal. I go through, and close it behind me.*
@Paytoechip *appears from his portal before he closes* Excuse me, may I join in?
@Crisis The more the merrier.
@Paytoechip Yay! Well, first off I should introduce myself correct? You can call me Crisis, I am the auto nominated future Chaos Apostle! I just need to level up that magic some more... Anyways, I wanted to talk to Tamamo a bit if I could?
*I sit beside Tamamo and look at you all*
@Crisis *Everyone introduces themselves then Tamamo goes back to glaring at the tv. If looks could kill, Mortem would have died several million times by now.*
You can try talking to her, but I don’t know how much of a response you will get.
@Paytoechip
What if I say...
*I approach Tamamo's ears*
It is about Luna?
@Crisis *Tamamo's ear twitches.*
Tamamo: I'm listening.
@Paytoechip
Ehe, I knew this would work.
*I get a shirt with Luna and Tamamo drawn on the front, with letters sayin 'Lunamo' on the top and show it to Tamamo*
I'll give you this if you want. The price will be having to use it and show it to Luna on the next full moon. Of course we can negotiate it a bit if it's not possible.
@Crisis Tamamo: I can do that, but what do you get out of this?
@Paytoechip
Fun of course!
@Crisis Tamamo: Then I’ll show it to Luna and use it as pajamas.
@Paytoechip
Yay! Thank you Tamamo.
*looks over at Payto*
It seems my time is up. It was great meeting you all! Remember me, Crisis, the auto nominated future Apostle of Chaos! Oh, and send hugs for Luna for me!
*slowly starts fading*