Suddenly, I hear a knock at the door, I think that's the first time anyone's knocked.
"Come in!"
[Marceline Abadeer 'Marceline the Vampire Queen'
Alignment - Neutral Good
A demon/vampire hybrid daughter of Hunson Abadeer. The unwilling heir to the nightosphere and a legend with the bass.
Currently wary and confused.]
"The doors appear at random, I assume it appeared near your home or workplace? But no need to worry Marceline, this is just a place for people to relax or trade."
"How did you know my name?" Her fingernails begun to grow, canines elongating. She was getting ready to attack me, I suppose it makes sense she is royalty.
"I just know a little bit about everything that walks in, nothing amazing, just enough. Your full name, race and your ability with the bass is all I know of you. Ignoring that, do you want a drink? We can ethically source blood here." I slide over a menu showing images and a small description of all the corses I have in storage.
I then realised she was just told I keep dead people so I had to say the whole thing eventually, I fight it every time but it never works. Marceline hung out here for a little bit, as it turns out she knew Finn and Jake. She was telling me how she met them, occasionally sipping on the glass of Varrick blood, when Peppermint Butler came back.
"Oh hey man, back so soon?" I asked him, I thought he'd be busy.
"Ah yes, I finally got something good enough to trade for Mohg!" He rushed back out and in holding hold a golf club…
[Hunson Abadeer's Former Golf Club-
A very nice tailor made golf club designed for Hunson specifically. Does not possess any special properties.]
"Hunson's golf club? I appreciate the effort but it has no properties making it valuable enough to equal a demigod's body." It was true, a cool memento, that would lose all intrinsic value once duplicated.
"Arhg!" He ran back out, me and Marceline exchanging glances. He came back a moment later holding a book 'Advanced Exorcism 3'. I picked it up and added it to my mental library, "Sorry I have this series already." A lie but now I have a free exorcism books.
"Ah!" He was getting more frustrated now, but it was kind of funny, he did have to keep running through the legs of whoever was coming into the bar though.
10 minutes go by and he comes back with a dark magic book series copy. I give him a nod and brought out a nude Mohg body, in return he left the 12 books on my counter and dragged the body off with a smile on his face.
"Was it really alright to give him that?" Annie asked me, she became a regular when Hughie left her.
"Mohg's body held no secrets, and his connection to the formless mother is now severed. So he's basically just got a big corpse with horns growing from it, not even that good for necromancy." Maybe his body could be valuable, but I don't know enough dark magic yet to say for certain.
I'll rectify that though, I set my clone to work and I go in the training room to read through the new additions to my mental library. Each of the 12 books is apparently a different subject from demonology to plane shifting, though some do have enough content they need 3-4 books. The exorcism book is what I read first, with it being how to get the right to bless salt and how to touch ghosts.
[Exorcism lv2]
Peaking his head around the corner, my clone said, "Something you need to see here man." At least I got the straggler book in.
In the bar was a skeleton with a black cloak covering him, floating above his hand was a portal. "Hey kids, wanna learn how to do portals? It's free, absolutely free."
"I'm stuck in this bar, portals are of no use to me. Any takers from you lot?" Everyone else was skeptical, aside from a sorcerer in the back. "Go on then, I'll go" As he went, he dragged one of his friends with him, through a portal leading to who knows where.
"I'd go but I don't want portals, do you have anything else?" I said to him, it's not like I'll die if a clone dies after all.
"Uh let's see here… I got demon hearts, wizard powers, a witch wants a long-term apprentice, magic beans… ah a watch that stops you being affected by time magic." Nearly all of them sound tempting.
"Can I pick only one? Or more because I can clone 3 of myself." With self-cloning levelling up so did the number of clones I can make.
"Go ahead kid" So I sent my clones for the demon heart, wizard powers and the watch." They all got taken through portals so I was going to have to man the bar like I used to for a while.
Taking in everyone's drink orders, kitchen domain was making life easy by floating out the orders to people. Kalé got his slow cooked boar stew as usual, I made myself it one time and it was really nice. Melina had fish and chips, Butcher had an American burger and Sellen, who just appeared again once more, had 7 racks of ribs.
I'm considering that I haven't paid enough attention to my actual job here, sure I've got the clones but I think Homelander really shook me up. I've been way too focused on magic and power that I think I've been ignoring my customers somewhat. How about I have a full focus on my customers for 16h shifts, then have 8h off for research, practice, whatever. Because I don't think I'm progressing in the right path now, I'm more of a market that serves drinks than some multiversal level relaxing bar.