I looked out over the meeting, and I greeted the elders with a slight bow. My mind was still clearing from the amount of sex I just had, and my mind was still compiling the reports that I would need to make.
"Thank you for arriving so soon," My father and I nodded.
"It is only what is expected of me. I am wondering though why this wasn't asked through letters which so far I have received none yet." I told them.
"Ah, that is simple. Things are moving faster than we believed on this side. The Gathering of Tribes has been moved up by the Dragonics, which is understandable when we told them about what happened with Ralph. There are many things in the works, and we need to move faster than the plans originally allowed for." An elder replied with a deep voice, and I looked at him.
"That is not all, and we need to know the progress of the Potion's testing and your contract with the illusionist's tower." My father said this time, and I looked at him instead.
"Well, To be honest, that is the best news that I have for you, Elders," I replied. "I have signed a working contract with Queen Mira in representation for the Illusionist Tower of the Succubi. So far, I have reported that Mira had composed a large following of C rankers with B rankers to guide them.
That is in pair with the fact that Queen Mira herself will be joining us and that there may even be reinforcements since Queen Mira is allowing any Illusionist C rank or above to join if they wish to volunteer." I finished with a significant smile.
The elders all looked back at me with surprise. "Wonderful!" My father exclaimed; relief was evident. I could see more going on with that exclamation as all the elders nodded and looked at each other. They were saying something to each other, but I couldn't hear since they were using mana to communicate without letting me know what they were saying.
The conversation seemed elated but intense as they talked to each other.
A minute went by before they turned back to me, "That is fantastic to hear, Chelsea," My father said with a large smile. "The Tribes know that we the Bunny-kin are the source of the leak to the Empire that one of ours told them. The Empire, to our knowledge, hasn't gotten to full readiness either.
It is unknown why or maybe the information that they have in the knowledge Ralph gave them isn't forthcoming. We have just gotten our hands on him, though, and we will be talking to him very thoroughly about that."
The smile on all our faces as he said that made it clear if anyone was watching that, he wouldn't enjoy the experience. "The Empire plans on something, or it could be that Ralph was an asset that they were just retrieving." I shrugged, and the Elders nodded.
"There could be many reasons for why they haven't started deploying military assets, Chelsea." One of the Elders said seriously, and I nodded with him before he continued, "That is beside the point. We will recall you and your replacement will be there in two weeks at the latest.
When they get there, you will be taking Christina, yourself, Florine, and anyone close to you to bring back within the week. If you can, please request, politely of course, to Queen Mira to join you so that we may discuss details with her face to face." He finished.
"Yes, please do that," My father suddenly said. "We could use an insider look into illusions so that we may plan tactics and strategies with her in conjunction with the potions." I nodded at the point, and he went on, "In regards to the potions, we have gotten many Alchemists producing potions here to make up for our lack of them.
They have been working on building up a stockpile and useable assets for the war, but we haven't gotten a best deployable device yet." My father looked at me with a much more severe face. "Has Anthony come up with something yet with the Succubi?"
"He has come up with several. But in two weeks, much can change," I replied and thought quickly, "I can bring the best he can come up with me when I come back on the ship or use the Emergency communication Crystal in about a week to let you know his best results. From what he is telling me, though, they are coming up with several methods to be used in different scenarios.
They might even be useful with other potions in the future." I finished answering with a smile.
"That is okay at this point. Most of the potions are being stored in large airtight vats, but they can only hold so much. We are at three quarters storage capacity.
Soon we need to put them in smaller potion bottles." My father said, and he leaned back, "This is a bad solution to the current problem, and we might lose a little potency when putting them in new potion bottles, but it will be best this way for now."
I sighed and shook my head about the think about the downsides to this when my father continued, "Now, how is the Free trade agreement going?"
"Not well," I replied, "Negotiations have stalled with the fishing part of the free trade agreement, and the conditions are too long term for us to eat the loss in the long term. I told you most of the details, but I know some coastal tribes will veto making this law with that prevision in the free trade agreement.
It will destroy our maritime businesses in the long term as well." I sighed, and I saw my father's serious expression.
"The short term would help us, but you are right," My father sighed and looked at the elders. Another conversation came, and they started to talk through mana. Many this time began to look pissed off. I could almost see the yelling going on between some of them. A hand came down, and one elder glared at the other, his face red, and the other looked pissed.
All of these exaggerated movements from others seemed like a silent movie of a pissed-off meeting.
It went on for longer than I thought, and the only person, in the end, to remain calm seemed to be my father. That was until one elder pointed at another, and my father's open palm slammed to the table, making all the elders turn to him. They all looked at him with various expressions that I couldn't see, and it seemed that this was the moment that many elders no longer looked angry but embarrassed.
"That took longer than we thought," My father said while the Elders seemed to settle down as he took control. "The decision has been made, and it will be that we will look at the long term in this. We will not bring something that we know will not be cosigned by the Gathering of the tribes.
Instead, we will hold out for what you want in this Ambassador Chelsea; if there is this Fishing stipulation in the agreement, we will not even bring it back home to be asked about."
I barely held the relief in my voice. I did not want to bring a piece of legislation that would be positioned. It would slowly intoxicate relations, most likely into war with the largest and strongest nation in the continent. Or I believed they were they were the strongest. It didn't matter at this point, though, as I nodded.
"Yes, I will work according to the Council's orders on this," I replied formally, giving a small bow of acknowledgment. "I will do my best to bring this agreement through for our nation!" I announced, and some of the elders looked sore, but most looked happy.
"Good, Do your best I do wonder how far you have gotten?" My father asked. His expression seemed to expect something.
"Honestly, I have been stopped at the goal with Six votes on my side. If I can secure a seventh, I will be able to get my form of the vote passed. But I haven't found another race's representatives that are willing to vote in my favor." I told them. They all nodded gravely because this would help a lot with funding the war and influence trade.
There was a ton of other benefits that could come out of it if we got the best piece of legislation possible.
I remembered that one piece of information, and I nodded to myself. "I have a plan on the seventh, but I do not know if it will work. The details on it are very slim, but I will see what I can do with the time offered to me to do it." I told the elders, and many nodded.
"That is great to hear, and we expected nothing less from you," My father said, and he grinned, "I hope to hear great things, and unless a real emergency instead of a face-to-face meeting is needed, then we will not be contacting you this way."
With suddenness, the meeting came to an end, and feelings began to hit me like a truck.
It was finally happening and would be leaving the Demon lands within three weeks. Many emotions hit me even harder, and I felt like I was being run over by a bus. The fact that I would have to fight soon. The fact that I could see all my little daughters. I would be leaving some of my women behind that, have been with me for years every day. It was turmoil in my head and heart.
I slowly turned from the crystal mana dispersing around me, and my head was in a constant state of flux. I would be leaving my other kids here. Ones that I never even met, and I hit another round of self-loathing about what probably had to be an instinctive need to spread my semen into anyone who spread their legs for me.
I brought out an open palm, and I charged my muscles with mana before slapping myself. The pain woke up my brain from the self-loathing with sharp pain across my face. All of those things were things for later. First, it was time for me to finish things here in the Demon lands.
My spine straightened, and I moved out of the room back down the hallway to where I left Mira, Se Mon, Julia, and Yuri. Alexia walked in step with me as I moved through the corridors and remained silent as she noticed my determination as I moved through the embassy.
The world would change, and I will damn well do my best to make it in my favor.