Mare smiled and turned, starting to walk down the hall towards the exit of the castle. Knights and other staff around the castle bowed to the pair as they saw them leaving, which made James feel a little prideful but brushed it off. Mare was greeting all the citizens of the city as they walked by. An older demon merchant saw them, and she called them over. "Mare? Oh its great to see you! You're getting so much taller, I remember when u were but a little imp!"
Mare giggled, "its nice seeing u back in our circle Izzy! Will u be around here for awhile?"
"yes, for the time being I've set up shop around these parts, but you know how often I move around."
"I see, well its glad to see you around again, I'm sure father would like to see you at a point if u can!"
"Yea, maybe I should go see the old demon sense I'm in the area. Oh! and who is your friend? I don't think I recall meeting them before?"
James responded, "My names is James Morningstar, nice to meet you."
"Ah, so your that mans spawn. Well I don't wanna take up too much more of your time, here as a gift," She handed them both some fresh bread in a bag so they could take it with them. They both thanked Izzy and went on their way.
James looked over at the various demons and other people walking about, "Your people all seem to like you a lot?"
"Hm? I suppose so, I grew up and always wanted to mingle with the people and see and learn about those we govern and such. Did you think my people would not like us?"
"Well... no, its more so that most governing powers aren't very well liked by their people most of the time or they like to at least complain about the smaller things, especially in the past of the humans realm, where there's been plenty of it. But so far both the Pride circle and Wrath circle seem to all at least be supportive of their rulers. "
"Well, our circles have been around much longer then any of the human country's," she laughed before continuing, "Demons live for ever really, and the rest of Hells inhabitants tend to live still longer then humans with some exceptions. Obviously that's only the natural life span, but things can occur outside of this."
"How have the circles managed to last so long without falling?"
"How? Well most people can never even dream of fighting against the princes in terms of power other then other Princes or maybe some Spawn that have come around through out history, as there have been a few very powerful ones. Plus, not all the circles like their rules as much as ours."
"There have been Spawn who were strong enough to challenge the Princes?"
".... Yes, there has been a few who were able to, but most of them had no interest or died at one point. The strongest of the Spawns in history had died a few thousand years ago after fighting a group of Spawn who used a ancient dragon to distract him while also fighting them."
"I'm assuming this lead to some conflict?"
"Its lead to a few small scale conflicts between the circles, but as of late there's been rumors of a war coming. See, the spawn who was killed was actually one of Pride, and those responsible were Spawns of Envy, and Greed. Ever sense the circles have all been warry of each other to some degree. Two circles are neutral in this all, being Lust and sloth respectively. Where as our Wrath and Pride circles are hostile with Envy and Greed Circles to some level as ever sense then they have caused a few conflicts, some resulting in real damage. "
"What about the gluttony circle? I haven't heard a whole lot about them whenever I hear about the circles."
"They aren't friendly with any circle really, and just try to take what they want when they want. But The Pride circle is strong enough that the Prince of gluttony has been avoiding conflict for a long time. Although in a war situation, he may be one of the most dangerous, as his goals seem to be more akin to just expanding his circle and not caring too much what the others do."
"I see. Actually where the hell are we going????" James looked around realizing they are in a totally different part of the city.
"Oh, were heading to a place to eat and then I figured after that we could head to a park or a movie place? I mean there's also library's with lots of information and arenas, etc, if you'd rather that kind of thing?"
"O-oh, no, I'll go with what you had planned, I can always come another time to see the other stuff"
They arrived at a building that was very fancy and extravagant in appearance. Marble pilers, gold trimming, beautiful windows, the whole thing.
They ate expensive food until they were stuffed, and then went to the movies and enjoyed the day together. On the way taking Mare home, she also pointed out were the other fun locations in the city were, including some site seeing, the arenas, museums, library's and some other stuff. Ness put noted it down for James in case he would forget it later.
'well, I think the trip to Wrath so far has been quite fruitful. But next I should help them deal with those guys from before... then after that maybe I should go see what the other circles are like... maybe if I can make allies with more Spawn i can even stop conflict at all between the circles... No I doubt that... but I might be able to lessen the blood shed, or find a way for us to win easier... sigh who knows, but as I am, I'm too weak. There are other Spawn probably in the level 100 or higher by now at least, considering those guards were over that and I don't even know if they really were elites or not? *sigh* I have a feeling this is going to become a pain for me down the line. Oh well, Might as well have some fun with it right?"
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