Devil Slave (Satan system)

On seeing her, Father Black stood up from his seat and walked towards her. He gave a bow, not too low to be submissive, and not too high to show contempt. Just enough to be elegant and inviting.

"Welcome to our home, goddess!" he presented a hand, and once she took it, he placed a shallow kiss at the back of her palm. "I am known as Father Black, Regent of the plane, eighth earth and primary plane Demeter!" his words made her frown a bit.

However, father Black pretended not to see it. Instead, he turned to the rest of the Lenny family, "Family, this Lady Demeter, a Major god of the God mountain. and yes, Our king, His Majesty, Lenny Tales had named the plane after her."

Everyone on the table except Clawed and Morgana who was in on the plane long before were speechless. All at a loss for words.

The thought in all their heads was one thing. Where they not in battle against the gods? Since when did they become ’Honored guests!?’

Those were indeed very focused questions. However, on the spot, Father Black sent telepathic messages to all of them, talking to them through the Crest that connected them not to ask stupid questions that could embarrass the family and allow him talk from beginning to end.

Being a gentleman, he led her gently to a sit directly opposite from his own. After she was seated comfortably, he returned to his seat. By now, Demeter had retracted her aura.

She looked around the table a bit. "such a motley crew for a family. Halfborns, humans, and even a Demon. But..." she paused as if to place emphasis on her words, "...NO king!" she frowned as she stared at Father Black. "I came as agreed, but it would seem like your king does not know how to honor the presence of a respected god. He dares to not show his face?" her aura flared up a bit.

And instinctively, Victor’s Werewolf instincts kicked in and he wanted to dive on her in defense. Even Morgana and the others were the same thing. After all, this god only showed up a few minutes ago and she was already showing disrespect to their king. Such a thing should not be permitted. It was an abrupt insult to them.

However, Father Black was seemingly unmoved by her outburst. In fact, he had a gentle smile on his face that even extended to his low opened eyes. While at the same time, he reminded his family members again in their minds.

Father Black suddenly spoke up, his voice cutting through her aura using the power that the Plane granted to him as regent and Lenny’s representative.

"LADY Demeter, I understand your plight. However, if I am not mistaking, you have also not been truthful to us. If I am not mistaking, though very beautiful, this is not your true form, or is that not so?

How do you gods call it? Erm... An Avatar I believe?"

Demeter gave a smirk and then she leaned back into her seat, "not bad, you were able to see through and know that this is not my true form.

Yes, I decided to attend this meeting today using an avatar, a chosen human of this world. A new believer of my faith, if I might add. As I am quite busy at the moment, I am unable to attend personally, besides, the plane’s restriction, though weakened significantly by the invitation, still exists."

Father Black nodded in his mind. This was exactly as Lenny had told him. gods were very prideful beings. The higher their power and ability, the higher their pride.

Besides, the idea of using a second party as a point to pass across a message was essentially a power move.

A man precedes his reputation. Lenny had the memories of different creatures he had consumed including the Primordial beasts, and from those memories as well as books, he had studied how the gods behaved.

With this, he was able to predict the probability of Demeter not coming in her true form. After all, the invitation by a family member negates the laws of the cosmos that would oppress a person of her power. Meaning that she was just shooting excuses.

Father Black was only at the Deep Demon rank. There was no way he was having such knowledge and power to know if this was an Avatar or not.

But he was a shrewd man. Coupled with the information Lenny gave him before hand to be used, he was currently in Game mode.

"Lady Demeter, you will please forgive my King. He is in deep work. With the damaged caused by the entities and the invasion of the Abaddon royal family caused by a ’god’ from the God mountain, he has indeed been very busy." father Black bowed his head again, "but no matter, just like you use this mere mortal human body to represent you in this very delicate matter, allow me, Regent and second in command of the Plane to represent my king."

Demeter frowned in her mind, but not in the open. After all, she could hear the hiding meaning of his words clearly.

Since this was not a gathering of power, but status, it was clear to say that Father Black was in the right. After all, he had a title that qualified his representation of Lenny who was king of a primary Plane. While Demeter, though being a god, had used an ordinary mortal woman to represent her.

One could say that in this exchange, Father Black had won, putting the Shrewd old man on the winning strike against a god.

Nevertheless, this was just the first round, qualifying the subject known as negotiation, whether it would be on equal grounds, or not.

Father Black, representing the Eighth Plane known as Demeter and Demeter, the goddess, and representative of the god mountain.

Lady Demeter wanted to take back a point on this negotiation ground, and then so she spoke up, action that she soon regretted as she discovered that she had been baited in again...