Chapter 109 - Coversation

"Azazel, how are you? Are finished making something from the ingot we sold to you?"

Azazel swallows the food inside his mouth, looks at me, and says.

"Yeah. I made this ring."

Azazel takes out the ring he wears around his right index finger and places it in front of me. I pick it up. As my finger touches the ring, I can feel the holy energy inside the ring is massive. I think it was ten times the energy inside Azazel. If I did not know it was a ring, I would have thought that it was a Holy Energy equivalent of a Nuclear Reactor in the form of a ring.

"You decide to make Holy energy storage from all the Adamantium I give you?"

"No! I'm a pervert, not an idiot. I only need a few grams of the metal to make this ring."

"I see. If you don't mind, why did you make this ring?"

"Meh, I don't really mind. I made this ring to be the energy reactor for my artificial Sacred Gear."

Is he talking about the Down Fall Dragon Spear? I read that the Artificial Sacred Gear can cause fatigue to the user after a long time.

"I see. I guess it is a good thing because I hear an Artificial Sacred Gear drains the user's energy faster than your usual Sacred Gear."

"That is true. That is the only thing I cannot figure out. I don't know how to decrease the energy consumption of the Artificial Sacred Gear. That is why I create this ring."

I nod my head and continue sipping my sake.

"Can I see the ring?"

I look at Lucina, who asks Azazel to see his ring. After taking the ring, Lucina begins to use her Physical Energy and spreads it around the ring. It takes a minute, but it looks like Lucina successfully figured out the main component of the ring.

"It is made of four metals. Adamantium, Mithril, Pure Iron and other metal made of pure energy."

As Lucina mutters it out loud, I can see Azazel widen his eyes, surprised at Lucina.

"Wow! You can tell it by only touching it? How did you do that?!? The only one I know can do that is a Dwarf!"

"Well, I'm a dwarf after all."

Welp, it looks like Lucina blurted her race identity without thinking. She will realize it in three… two… one...

I chuckle a little when I see her face. Combine it with the face of the other; I almost laugh out loud. The shocked expression of Yasaka, Azazel, and the devils is hilarious.

"You are a dwarf?"

Lucina sighs a little before nodding her head.

"Yeah, I'm a dwarf."

Azazel looked at Lucina for a few seconds before nodding his head.

"I guess that makes sense. You two don't really care about money and only care about knowledge. However, usually, the one that collects a different knowledge is the elves."

Azazel then looked at me before saying.

"Are you by any chance an elf?"

"Nah. I'm one hundred percent human."

"I see."

I know that Azazel wants to talk more and even ask Lucina to have some collaboration with him. However, what makes me frown is the expression of the devil in front of me. Both Rias and Sona have calculating eyes. It was the eyes of many merchants coming to Sea Dragon City that tried to scam us.

I don't know what they are thinking, but I wouldn't say I like it.

Nothing is happening for the rest of the feast other than the devils and Azazel trying to dig for information from Lucina. Lucky for me, Lucina already knows how to deal with the people that try to dig for information.

The teaching Richard gives to both of us is really useful.

Dealing with people trying to dig for information from you is not to answer all their questions. It sounds rude and childish, but it really works, especially if you decide to give the people that ask the question a sweet, too sweet, smile.

~3 hours later~

The feast was over a few hours ago. However, before we could get away from the palace, Yasaka asked us to stay here. She said that there is a person that wants to meet me. So here we are being spoiled with all kinds of food or drink we want while waiting for Yasaka.

"Sorry for the wait."

"Announcing, The goddess of the sun, the Queen of Japan island, Amaterasu!"

Suddenly the room is filled with thick energy. This energy did not make us hard to breathe, but rather it was warm like the morning sun.

The one that walks inside the room is a beautiful woman wearing a white and red Yukata. She has golden hair and eyes. On top of her is a crown-shaped like a sun. There is also a golden chakram (?) like an item.

"The god of the sea and storm, Susanoo!"

The next one walking inside the room is a middle-aged man. Susanoo has appeared that of middle-aged men with a body that would put weightlifters to shame. He is massive. I think his height is around 2.1 meters. Not only tall but Susanoo's body is also filled with muscle. Hell, his muscles have muscles.

He is currently wearing a white haori. However, instead of tying it together, Susanoo let it open, showing his ċhėst and stomach to the world.

Around his neck is a necklace of magatama with a bright red magatama in the middle of the necklace.

I get up from my seat and bow a little. I sit on the chair once again when I see them sit down in front of me.

"I heard from Yasaka you are a direct person."

"I can use a sweet word, but where we come from, a direct way of speaking is more appreciated."

"Then I will not beat around the bush. I hear you have an Adamantium in your possession?"

"That I do."

"I know you already sold us Gram even though you don't need to, but you sell it anyway. Anyway, the reason why we come here is to buy as much Adamantium you are willing to sell to us."

I don't have any reason not to sell the Adamantium to the Shinto faction. They are nothing but a great host to us. They treat us with kindness and never see us as their enemy. We also did not lose anything in this transaction.

"Sure. Let us talk about payment."

"Of course. I heard from Yasaka you don't really care about money?"

"A mundane money? No, we don't really care about that."

Because Lucina and I cannot use it in our world after all.

"However, we accept gold or silver."

"Really? While obtaining a large amount of gold is rather easy for us, is it really okay? Nowadays, the people ask for documentation where you get the gold."

"Don't worry. We will take care of it."

By taking care of it, I mean bringing it to our world and making a coin out of it—the same with silver.

"Very well. Is there anything else? Depending on the weight and size of the Adamantium you are willing to sell, we are willing to give you the books and scroll we have in Takamagahara."

Without saying anything, I summon two-kilogram Adamantium from my pocket dimension and place it on top of the table.

"I am willing to sell two-kilo worth of pure Adamantium to you."

I know both Susanoo and Amaterasu are surprised by me showing them two Adamantium ingots, but both of them did not show it on their face.

"Can I look at it?"

I nod my head at Susanoo. A second later, Susanoo takes the ingot and begins to examine it. A minute later, he nods his head and says.

"You are correct. This really is a pure Adamantium ingot. Where did you get this?"

"Sadly, I cannot tell you about that. It is a secret, you see."

"Heh. Worth a try."

Amaterasu nods her head and says.

"Tell us what you want for the ingots. We will try our best to give it to you."

"Other than the golds and silver, I cannot really think of anything. We could take the books, scroll, and Grimoire you can give to us. What do you think, Lucina?"

I look at Lucina, who is feeding Ophis with her hands. She looks at me and a few seconds later says.

"The herbs. You need those, remember? You forgot about it when we sold the Adamantium to Azazel."

"Oh yeah."

I look back to Amaterasu and say,

"As she said, we want as many herbs as you can give us. I prefer an herb that we can plant. So we need a full plant, not only part of it."

"Easy enough. Do you want the herbs in this country, or do you want it from around the world?"

"The world, please."

"Very well. Anything else?"

"Metals. We want as much metal you are willing to give to us. We want the metal in Takamagahara."

"So you want an Nth Metal?"

"Nth Metal?"

"Yes. That is what people called. Nth metal is the metal formed after absorbing a large amount of Divine Energy we release into the air."

"Hmmm, we will take it. If you are okay with it."

"Of course, we are fine giving it to you. Anything else?"

"Nope. You can take the Adamantium. We will come here when you are ready to deliver our payment."

Amaterasu thinks about it for a few seconds and says.

"Come here in a week. Your payment will be ready."

"It is nice to have a business with you."