70 A new sport? (2/2)

~But it's really fascinating that a society like yours came to be. In a way, you are everything the Ascended Ones yearned for. A normal god always chooses to return to the flow of life and death at some point because his mind can't deal with the eternity any more.~

~But your society will probably go on forever because you can just decide to reincarnate and drop the burden of some memories in order to lift the stress.~

~From what I see, you are already immersed in the process by collecting the souls of your fallen comrades to release them at your homeworld.~

I nod my head. At that moment Celes enters the room with Aengus under an arm and Seria wrapped up in her tail. ”They really jumped off the tower just to see how long they would fall! They gave the guards a panic attack!”

I smirk at them. ”Who won?”

”Aengus impacted one second before me. It wasn't fair! He is heavier!” Seria complains with a moody voice.

~I told you that Aengus would hit the ground first. Physics never lies.~

”Booh... Why should we trust in something like that if we can test it!” Aengus tries to wriggle himself out Celes's embrace, but she doesn't let go.

”You two are grounded for two days! This place isn't a playground.” Celes sits down and wraps Aengus and Seria together with their backs to each other. Her tail is the rope....

”That looks like you roped up two criminals....” I give her my impression.

”They ARE criminals!” -Celes

~I see! So that's the motherly instinct to protect their young. Very interesting. I had never hoped to being able to study those interactions.~

”You shut up too! Because of your talks about calculations, they jumped in the first place!” -Celes

~...~

~I will try to learn how to interact with children.~

What a noble thought. Unfortunately not even parents themselves are able to interact with their children properly most of the time.

~An ambassador just arrived and wants to speak to the highest authority.~

”Ambassador? From what? There is nobody you could negotiate with!” I almost fell out of my chair.

~He probably belongs to one of the newly forming powers.~

”Newly forming powers? Why don't we know anything about this?” -Celes

~Oh I forgot to tell.... Well I can make up for it. I foresaw that the disappearance of the Council leaves a big power vacuum. Obviously such an oppressing dictatorship like the Council can't just disappear over night without consequence.~

~The formerly oppressed people will start to form their own communities. Ascended beings are social and they yearn for contact with others on their scale of power. The multiverse contains enough gods for seven to eight societies of the average size of yours.~

”Well.... I anticipated that something like that would happen, but not so fast.” I tilt my head and look at the ceiling.

”Should we suppress them? We have enough troubles with the Council! What if they get influenced by them or already are? Multiple powers within the multiverse could lead to the same situation we just escaped from!” -Celes

I sigh. ”You are right but how should we suppress them? The Council had the Sphere and we can't watch the whole multiverse at once. Maybe our best chance is to tell them everything we know about the current state of affairs and wish them luck.”

~The multiverse is big enough for everyone. There is no need to step on each others toes. The ambassador is waiting at the plaza in front of the central tower.~

”Tell him to come to the throne room. I will talk to him there.” I teleport and reappear on my throne. It's located in a big room in the central tower. There is a nice 360° view on the whole city. All walls are windows to ensure the best view.

There are no doors to enter the room. It's an architecture that would only come one to someone's mind who could teleport around like taking a walk.

I didn't adopt the Council's idea of a floating table above the city. There has to be something under my feet, otherwise I feel uncomfortable!

Celes appears in a chair beside me and I nod to the guards.

A pair of guards with a person between them appears before me and I wave for them to step aside.

The ambassador has black skin and very long earlobes. His clothing consists just of a single robe. And there are more accessories on him than I can count! Rings, amulets, pearls, chains. Whoa! Are you a god of female adornments?

”Greetings. I am ambassador Mawu. I am here to greet you in the name of the Perseides Alliance.” Mawu nods to me and smiles.

I smile back at him. This guy is lucky that I told my guards to forget about the etiquette. Normally nobody speaks to the king first, so the old school guards would have dragged him out of the building by now.

”Greetings too. What's this Perseides Alliance of yours?”

”We are a big society of gods. Our aim is to protect the worlds under our supervision. In order to do this, we chose to form the Perseides Alliance. After we managed to establish our group, we thought that we should introduce ourselves at the very least.” - Mawu

”Then I welcome you to Asheim and I wish you luck. As long as you don't commit any atrocities, we will not bother you.” I continue to smile at Mawu who arches an eyebrow. Obviously he didn't expect my reaction.

Then he speaks. ”It's nice to hear that you don't feel offended by our community. Good that the ones who kicked the Council from their throne seem to be reasonable people.”

”No, we could never keep order in the multiverse by our own. It's wonderful that others are willing to take up the task! So we will have to talk for a long time about the current state of affairs. How about joining my family and me for dinner? Do you want to set up an embassy in Asheim?” I throw my thoughts at Mawu without waiting for an answer.

Mawu just stares back at me with curiosity in his eyes.