Natalia looked at Krishna,"Sir Krishna where do you wish to go, I am at your service."
"Do you know of a pub in America named 'The Lost Club'"
Natalia opens a Portal, "This way"
"Efficient as always" Krishna smiles and walks into the portal.
Natalia blushes a little and follows him.
{Outside of the Lost pub}
A portal appears out of thin air scaring the guard at the door and then a 195cm tall man walks out of it which scares him even more.
Natalia walks Behind Krishna as they enter the club, the guard did not even try to stop him since ... that would be just stupid.
Krishna walks up to the bar counter attracting the attention of the many people there.
He sits in front of the bartender, " Hello fox, could you call your master."
The man just looks at him shocked while Natalia is also a little surprised and confused but decides to simply stand behind and see what Krishna was doing.
The man composes himself and looks at Krishna with a small smile
"Right this way sir" He leads Krishna to an office on the first floor of the club.
"Alright, you can head back now." Krishna smiles but his tone was indication enough that the bartender understood he was not asking but telling him to go away.
Krishna walked in with Natalia following behind him.
The room was the main office of the owner of the club the Clandestine witch Esther.
Clandestine witches are witches who do not serve the Witch queen and hence are not under her protection. This makes them prone to attacks but Esther was pretty high up in the hierarchy under the queen witch but left her post and became a clandestine witch.
In the room, Esther was sitting in a comfortable chair behind a pretty big table.
"Hello Esther, I will spare us the introduction since you should already know me" Krishna says as he sits in front of Esther.
"Yes I do Krishna Godkill, Disciple of Scathach and the only Human male who can use magic properly or precisely to say who can use mana properly."
"hahahaha correct, I see your information network works properly..."
"So what do you wish to talk to me about"
"First of all" Krishna suddenly covers the whole room with his mana and disables the traps around the room then he casts a silent spell around the room and then adds another layer of mana to ensure no one and by this it means not even the witch queen can see through a dense layer of mana such as the one Krishna put around the room.
"!!!!" Esther is alarmed but is able to keep her cool when she does not sense any hostile intent from Krishna.
"Ok now that peeping eyes are not looking, Esther the Clandestine witch Join my Faction"
"what.....!!?" Esther and Natalia have the same reaction
'He is making a faction!!! since when' And the same thought.
"I can force you to sign a contract or I can blackmail you into one .... these two options are available to me but instead I wish for you to join my faction of your own free will."
"..."
"Also if you refuse I will simply refuse but after a while you will have a guest who was wronged by you quite some time ago and she will force you to join her faction."
"how can I believe you....."
"A few years ago a young Vampire girl of high standing came to you for help and you helped her but then charged 10 figure price for your services, rings any bells?"
Esther's face loses colour.
"She has info on your toy , the fox who led me here"
Hearing this her face became deathly pale.
"Calm down I am not even blackmailing you all this info is just so you would listen to me properly... As I said you will be forced to join either mine or my brother's organization and believe me it is the best offer you are gonna get since war is coming. There is no indication and there will be none but there is a war coming and it will happen on Earth, the sad thing is even though it happens on earth Humans are like ants in that war."
Esther's mind start going through the info she has but there is no signs of war about to happen anywhere.
"It's up to you to believe it."
Esther thinks for a minute more and then sighs.
"Look even if what you say is true how can I trust you? The name Krishna has no value right now on which you can ask anyone to believe you.... even if you have power that is not something that can build a faction you need money and connections and so much more.... you have none of that, anyone you tell this 'faction' dream of yours will think of it as a bad joke. Why do you want to build a faction what would be the purpose of said Faction"
"What I am trying to say is for people to join your faction you need to plan and have at least one of the requirements to begin the said faction. The strength you have shown is enough to call you powerful but not powerful enough to start your own faction. After you gain power people will still underestimate you since you are a human and that is like being an ant in the supernatural world. To change that you need to do something big or at least at a stage where everyone is looking to show your strength, something like that. Right now you just seem like a little kid who wishes to make a faction because he is fascinated by the term faction and wants to be a boss."
Krishna looks toward the ceiling and closes his eyes.
Rory who was reading a book suddenly starts speaking,'Child you need to think of the path you wish to take. Do you wish to rise up in the world to prove Humans can be strong or are you getting stronger because you wished to be free and keep your family safe.
'Pick a path child because if you try to do everything then you would just bury yourself in the multiple things you try to do.'
Krishna appears in the inner world falls to his knees and places his head in Rory's lap,' Grandma I always wanted my family to be happy and safe. I wished to be strong enough so that I don't lose anything.'
Rory smiles and pats his head,'Then grow a stronger child, growing stronger is something that you do every day, every time you train yourself to grow stronger and with the strength, you have right now if the gods don't come after you nothing can kill you.'
'Child you need to calm down and stop thinking of the future you know. What is being planned for probably over 100 years will not stop just because you wish for it to so focus on the people who are important to you.'
Then she slaps the back of Krishna's head,' Even though you know of the future does not mean you have to stop every bad thing from happening..... you have no obligation to help anyone!! if you wish to help then help and if you don't then do not!... why are you even trying to create a faction??? just because Victor will have one? what are you, a copycat?! even if you don't have a faction what if you have strength enough that your word matters.
Gain that strength.
Krishna in this world strength speaks for all and no amount of money, planning, tricks or ambushes will stand against absolute strength.... run after that strength but don't forget about your family or you will be like Scathach before she met you...Just a powerful bored being.'
Krishna gets up and gives a sweet genuine smile,' Thank you Grandma as always you are the best.'
Krishna leaves the inner world as Rory smiles and goes back to reading the book she was reading before.
" It seems I have been making a fool of myself. Esther, you are correct I have nothing that would entice someone to enter my faction but this also shows that faction is not really what I am looking for here. I wanted a Family who trusts and works for each other without any ulterior motives or similar goals. They just help each other because they are family...And I already have that. In pursuit of the story I seemingly lost sight of my goal....I don't need a faction, I will grow strong enough that I alone would be more powerful than a faction.... I must not lose sight of my goal again, A nice life with my family...."
"You are right Esther it seems making a faction is a futile dream.... I also need you to teach me spatial spells."
"Why would I do that"
"Because I can kill you right here right now and even if you escape your life here will be over and I will be hunting you actively."
"Good enough reason"
The next few hours were spent on Esther teaching Krishna about the various Spatial spells there are.
After learning the spells Krishna went back to his home and spent a few hours with Hanako, Julia, Cathleen and Sabine...
Julia also agreed to make a loyalty pact with Krishna since she now seemed fond of the three women she was living with and decided to join their little family.
Krishna got an earful for not contacting them much and not coming home every so often since Natalia told them she could have brought him back.....essentially she sold him out.
After leaving the house.
"I will remember this one Natalia."
"What so ever do you mean sir Krishna"
Krishna smiled and simply walked ahead.
"Before going back do you wish to increase your life span to vampire levels of lifespan?"
Krishna asked Natalia nonchalantly
"You will also get the physique of a superhuman which means you will not grow fat."
Krishna said as he looked at the little overgrown tummy of Natalia's.
"!! You can do that!?"
"Yeah but to do that you would have to become a part of my family which means you would have to prioritize this family first and your own clan second. I hope you understand what that means."
",...."
"I know this is not a very enticing offer but it is what it is I could really use your help and in return, you will grow stronger, and more beautiful and I will keep you safe as a member of my family. as simple as that .... there are not many rules since the family is pretty small but we will grow slowly and hopefully into a strong happy family."
"Now let's head back to the mansion..... Julia's wish is for Sasha to be happy and she is gonna be pretty pissed soon... I should be there for my little sister."
Sasha had been promoted to little sister since now Krishna considered Julia to be an elder in the family and Sasha was a daughter to Julia.
'Little sister????'
"You do know Julia is a maid for the Fulger clan"
"No Julia is now part of the Godkill family and she sees Sasha as her daughter so that's how I see her.... there is nothing else to be said about it. Alright enough talking let's go"
Natalia opens a portal and they both walk into it.