Will of chaos

The city was kind of destroyed, I watched the residents rebuild their houses and shops as I walked down the street, I must say I found it a little interesting to see the different types of Demons.

Some Demons had wings, others didn't, they had different eye and hair colors, different eye iris shapes, some had tails, and each one's skin color was also different, but what they all had in common was the horns, even That horns have different shapes, colors, and sizes doesn't change the fact that everyone has horns.

It was interesting to see everyone interacting in such a normal way, they don't look anything like the Demons from the myths, legends, and games of my ancient world.

They look just like another race like any other I've come across so far.

"This is the first time I've seen Demons, they look different than what I've heard."  (Karina)

"Let me guess, you thought they were all beings with murderous and cruel intentions?"  (Lilian)

"They've always been portrayed like that to me, I knew they were exaggerating, but now that I see them up close they look just like Humans or Beastmen."  (Karina)

"You must not fully believe other people's judgments, you must know both sides before having a clear view of the situation."  (I)

"But that's also normal here, Demons hear similar things about Humans."  (Lilian)

"The dispute of the two continents is old, old prejudices are hard to forget."  (I)

"I've never been prejudiced against Demons, but I must say that I may have been a little influenced by the things I grew up listening to."  (Karina)

I left the unloading of goods in the hands of Ivan and Nira, the Ghouls are helping them along with the Ogres.

While they took care of the things we are going to sell, I'm going to see the merchant of this new government, if what Lilian said is true then I can access a lot of hard to find items, I'm bringing Lilian, Erica, Karina, Irius and Irina with me.

As none of us are Humans, we are able to walk peacefully around the city this must be the first time Erica walks on the street without hiding her Demon appearance.

As we were walking through the city I saw a commotion in what looked like a square, people were gathering to hear some kind of announcement.

Even without approaching us, I could hear everything that was being announced, it was a representative of the new ruler who seems to be the wife of the previous King, in addition, the person making the announcement was the Runic Mage that I saw fighting a few days ago, but this time the Runes from his body were hidden without glowing because he wasn't using magic.

I heard a bit of the announcement, but it was just various reasons why the coup d'état had to be done and crimes that the previous King was said to be committing.

I think it's easy to say that a Lessa committed crimes when she's dead, they can say all they want without worrying, but I'm not going to get involved, each with their problems.

I walk back to the Commerce Guild place that is close by, when we enter I go to the counter and show my Commerce Guild card and my Adventurers Guild card, I think this is the first time I use this card of the Commerce Guild.

I tell the receptionist why we're there and he takes us to a room where there was a makeshift office where a chocolate-skinned woman with beautiful brown hair who also has a single gray horn in the back was tending to dozens of piles of stacked paper, there was also a blue-skinned Demon with a tail who was standing to the side arranging the papers in different piles and a Werewolf race woman helping to review the paperwork.

When we entered it looked like the three of them hadn't noticed our presence, I could feel the tiredness in their Auras seeing the dark circles under the eyes of the two Demons, but even thinking that the Wolf woman looked exhausted I can't be sure since I can't see dark circles under their eyes at all this fur.

The receptionist had to knock on the door that was already open to draw attention to us, after they noticed our presence the receptionist falls away closing the doors behind him.

"Good morning, I assume you are the merchant in charge of the government of this place, correct?"  (I)

"Exactly, my name is Eleanor, these are my assistants, please follow me."  (Eleanor)

We follow Eleanor to the other side of the room where a small conference table is set up, she waves for us to sit opposite her.

She seems to want her assistants to continue the work while she talks to us.

"My name is Zenos, from your attitude I assume you already know why we're here."  (I)

"Nice to meet you, lord Zenos, isn't it whenever I see a Vampire looking so young, can I assume it's a noble Patriarch?"  (Eleanor)

"A Patriarch yes, about nobility no, I'm just someone who likes to travel."  (I)

"This is already the 8th time I have taken on this role, I just hope that the current ruler can stay at least 100 years, this would be the first time in the history of this Kingdom."  (Eleanor)

I can feel the discontent and sarcasm in her voice, from what I can see she is tired of these situations and at the same time it demonstrates her competence for always being assigned to this type of work, in addition, she demonstrates a commitment to her work by the tiredness in her expression and still be working.

"I imagine you came to buy the confiscated items or to sell something directly to the new government, right?"  (Eleanor)

"I'm just here to buy today, I'd like to see if there's anything that catches my eye."  (I)

"Here is the list, it has the description, quantity, and price of the items being sold, the Commerce Guild has already rated all the items as genuine, there are also no illegal or restricted products on the list."  (Eleanor)

Eleanor pulls me a reading crystal and a storage crystal which she starts to use before handing me a well-described list of items with values.

During our short conversation, she is being very objective as if she wants to get her work done and I'm getting in the way.