The Insider System

Chapter 379: The Deal Pt.15

As he slowly made his way to the city he got to watch as the cloud in the sky eventually opened and let a few things out. They looked like people to him but because of the distance he was able to see them he was pretty sure they were giants not just regular sized people.

This finally gave him the real reason the Demon Lord had shown himself again, which was that he was dropping off the forces necessary to hold the Holy Domain now that the Temple of Light left. This didn't mean he had been wrong about his guess that the Demon Lord was organizing a force to go after the people from the Temple though.

Either way it made him feel that as long as he just acted normal he would have no problem entering the city or the Alchemist Guild because he didn't really look like a member of the Temple of Light other than his shoes which had come from there.

He could just get rid of them now and fly his way to the guild barefooted which would solve this problem. Thinking about what he would want for his next pair of boots, Lake remembered one of the items on the list he had made earlier that were theorized to be a level 60 pair of metal boots and wished he knew if they were close by so he could stop having to get a new pair every few days when the ones he was wearing started to fall apart.

It was something he really wanted to fix but for now he was just going to have to deal with whatever the guild had laying around when he got there. It would probably help if he was to ask someone like Lucas what he did to get shoes because he had seen how fast Lucas could move so he was sure the man had dealt with this same problem at some point.

After passing through another set of trees that had blocked his view, Lake saw the cloud had closed again and had started to shrink in the sky. At first he found this weird because he didn't understand why the Demon Lord wouldn't just stick around to keep an eye on his new territory but he quickly remembered the Demon Lord was currently in hiding from the God of Light.

This meant that the Demon Lord probably didn't want to keep himself in the open for too long at a time which was why both times he had seen the Demon Lord's cloud recently it had only lasted a few minutes.

Now that it was gone, Lake went back to his top speed and was at the edge of the city in just a couple of minutes. He didn't go in right away though because he wanted to make sure the giants weren't doing anything like attacking the city or the Alchemist Guild. Once he was sure the city wasn't dangerous he quickly walked towards the guild.

On the way he was tempted to use Detector to look for the Demon Worshipers but he decided against it because the giants were Demigods and therefore even looking for them using his skill might make them notice him. He didn't know if that was actually true or not but it was better for him to just mind his own business for now.

As he made his way through the city Lake saw lots of different groups walking the streets and while he wasn't sure he was pretty sure they were the same ones he had seen inside Lucas' office earlier, probably returning to their buildings after the meeting had ended. The fact none of them seemed overly hostile made him think peace was going to be the norm for a while which he found a good thing.

The war probably wasn't completely over but if the Holy Domain was now no longer a battlefield it would make his life a lot easier. He did find it odd that the Demon Lord didn't seem to be interested in killing anyone though since he had been brought to believe that was the entire goal of the war.

Making it all the way to the guild without being stopped or even looked at a single time, Lake started the process to be let inside and ten or so minutes later was on his way to Lucas' office. Stepping inside Lake saw the man looking through the books on one of the walls and cleared his throat to get the man's attention.

"Hello Lake, how have you been?" Lucas' attitude made it clear the man was in a much better mood than he had been recently and this was a good sign he was right about the peace that was about to take over the Holy Domain. "Good, how about you?"

"I'm fine as well. Are you going to be here for a while or will you be speeding off again?" Lake planned on staying long enough to do a few things for Lucas so he told the truth because the man should like that. "I'll be staying here for a while. Is there something you want me to do for you?"

Lake didn't think Lucas had an idea of his current abilities but the man knew about some of the skills he had gotten early on so Lucas having a task for him wouldn't be surprising. "No, I just want to know if you've been sent by the Temple of Light to gather information about what's going on."

Lake couldn't help but smile a bit at this question because if you knew him this was a ridiculous thing to think he would do but it wasn't Lucas' fault for having a bad read on his personality. Lake was a huge liar and included in this was him pretending to be much more friendly than he actually was so Lucas thinking he cared enough about the Temple of Light to spy was normal.

"No, I came back to avoid getting caught up in what they're doing currently. If you would like, I'll keep to myself till you stop suspecting me of spying." Lake knew this wasn't the best defense but rejecting the possibility of being a spy too much could just make Lucas think that he definitely was one.

"No it's fine I just wanted to see what you would say. I honestly don't care if you feed them information or not. As far as I can tell they're going to be forced into accepting a similar peace deal by the demon Lord as everyone else soon enough." Lake liked what he heard until the Insider reacted in a negative manner to what Lucas had just said.

He had no idea why it wouldn't want this war to end earlier than anyone could have ever seen coming but he guessed there was a reason it was bad so he asked Lucas a question to get more information. "What do you mean? I know the God of Metal had to make peace with the Demon Lord because of the attack but have other gods already done so as well?"

"The God of Fire just did a few hours ago but to be honest that's been a long time coming than there seems to be a good chance the God of Wind will be also making peace with the Demon Lord because an attack like the one in the Metal Domain will be unstoppable for her followers with the weak fighting power they posses and that's two out of the five origin gods that are currently alive so I'm sure you can see where this is going."

Lake could indeed see how this could continue to spread from god to god until all the gods except for the God of Light had made peace with the Demon Lord. "Does that mean he'll be ascending soon?" Lake knew the other gods had somehow been stopping the Demon Lord from ascending for a very long time so if they were signing some type of deal he couldn't see a world where this deal wouldn't include him being allowed to finally become a god.

"It looks very likely but I haven't actually gotten to see the details of the deals he's making with all the gods so it's still to be seen when or if it will happen." Lake had never been here for a god's ascension and normally he wouldn't ask but Lucas was already aware of him coming from another world so Lake wanted to know what was going to happen and asked. "What happens when a god ascends?"

"It's always a bit different depending on the Element but to be honest because of the fact Unholy mana is already everywhere and people are born/gain the affinity I think we can disregard the period of adjustment that comes with that and just focus on the economic changes that will happen as new trading opportunities arise. These will probably still be less drastic than normal though so I think there's nothing to worry about this time around."

"What do you mean by this time around?" This clearly signified there had been problems with some of the gods in the past and Lake wanted to know why. "The God of Antimagic is the best example of a god's ascension causing problems. For the first few weeks magic all over the world stopped acting as it had for all of history and it took all the gods forcing him to restrict his influence for it to go back to normal. Nothing like that's going to happen this time since Unholy is a more normal element like the others and at most the people who live in the Dark Domain will have to adjust a bit to the new balance of elements there."

After hearing Lucas say nothing bad would happen, Lake started to wonder why the Demon Lord had ever even been blocked in the first place. He could understand the fact that he was a demon being a problem since the gods didn't like the race the God of Fire had taken from his old world but surely there was more to the story.

"Do you know why the Demon Lord was stopped from ascending?" Lucas probably knew more than even the Temple Head because he was older and owned the building that had once been the Mages guild so he felt like there was a good chance he was going to get his question answered but Lucas disappointed him when he shook his head and said. "You would have to ask the god of Light when you meet him. I'm going to get back to work now."

Hearing Lucas wanted him to leave, Lake started to walk up the stairs even though he had wanted to ask the man about new shoes. It honestly wasn't that big of a deal and he would be fine with whatever until he got his hands on one of the items on his list.