The groaning of adult men was heard outside the establishment. Devina had arranged a meeting room with our methamphetamine distributors. They would come to this establishment every Tuesday and give Devina the money. They would keep a small sum to themselves as per the contract.
We were inside a concrete building with three stories. With security on each floor. The first floor consisted of the party room. Which people could dance and sing, basically a nightclub with alcohol and drugs.
The second floor was for personal use. Personnel could come up to the second floor and talk or smoke. They could play bedroom games if you know what I mean.
The third and last floor was only reserved for important people and their leaders. It was a heavily guarded floor. It had a giant circular vault door that you had to punch in a combination.
We had already made it to the third floor, the music and cheers could still be heard from down below.
The three men handed us 4 duffel bags filled with cash.
"Those 200 packs of meth had one of the greatest yields I have ever seen in my life."
The other man followed up.
"Nah, you wouldn't believe it! That shit sold! Like 5 hours in and all the packets are gone."
200 bags, 200 livis per bag, that is 40000 thousand livis. They take a 10% cut and we have 36000 livis. That is enough to buy three mansions.
I lean in towards Devina.
"Pst, what are we going to do with all the money?"
She looks at the money and then at the drug mules.
"Come back next week. I will give you 500 more bags and we will sell them at 250 livis."
A 25% increase? Would customers still be willing to pay that?
"Dude, that is like a lot. You think the customers gonna still buy that shit?"
The other guy looked at him and reassured him.
"Bro, all the folk I sold this to, they all said they were willing to pay 300 livis or more for this."
Devina grabbed the bags and we headed out. We passed the disco hall and we were out in the underground streets of Nautilus.
"Well, Devina? What are we going to do with 36000 Livis?"
"Hmm, maybe some ice cream?"
"Sure sounds nice."
We walked around the cold streets until we ran into the small children we met before. They were playing with the football Devina gave them.
Devina turned back into her child form changed her clothes and ran into the field.
All of them took notice of Devina and immediately surrounded her.
"Teach us new tricks!"
The kids were really surprised and happy to see Devina again and Devina was more than happy to show and teach them new tricks.
But after a little while we had to go. But before that, Devina asked them where the ice cream shop was and that was our next destination.
We had gotten our preferred ice cream flavors, I got dark chocolate and Devina got vanilla strawberry. We sat down at a quiet place, where no one passed, and ate our ice cream.
"Devina, how long is it going to take for this to work?"
"Probably a few weeks. Zerstörer most likely already knows about our meth, but he isn't going to take action himself immediately. He is going to send out scouts and try to get info before moving out."
"So we just mass produce our methamphetamine until he does something?"
"Until he does something, yea."
Then a question came up that I wanted to ask Devina.
"How do I conceal my presence as an Aeon against the other Aeons? Like Zerstörer hiding from your Aeon of Dexterity."
"Well, to put it very simply, he has a negative barrier that warps space-time around him, which makes it so tracking him is impossible."
"Wouldn't it leave him vulnerable at his feet when he needs to walk?"
"Well, the barriers are very very thin. You could say you just need a micrometer of the barrier to cover yourself in a protective barrier. So putting on shoes works perfectly fine with the barrier."
"Can I make one?"
"Depends."
"In this world, there is energy floating around all over the place called Loxes. Well, you could use these for many purposes. You could kill people with it but it isn't its main function. The main function of Loxes is to balance the world. But every organism uses these Loxes just by living and thus it fluctuates which makes it unstable. Using that unsteadiness, you can empower it and make it explode. When this happens, many things may occur, like a barrier a really big explosion, or just a small bang. It all depends on the user and how they empowered the Loxes."
"So you are saying everyone can use these?"
"Yeah, but most people don't know how. But you could say Aeons are the ultimate Lox empowering tool. They easily manipulate and change the balance of the world so the Loxes are easy work for them."
"So that's why it is so why we Aeons can unleash abilities and normal humans can't. We are better Lox empowerers."
Devina stood up and told me, for just one Livis she would educate me on how to control Loxes. I looked down at her with dead fish eyes. Really? One livis for a lesson? I handed her one coin and she put it in her pocket. Alright now… 5 minutes later…. Yoooo I feel so weird. Devina said that my barrier was still a little wrong but after some time, I would get the hang of it.
As I was still trying to figure out how the barrier worked. I felt an ominous presence behind me. Devina's eyes widened when she saw the person standing there.
"Wassup, Sekito's baby sister, how are ya?"
I turned around to see Zerstörer holding an ice cream cone. He then started licking it and eating it until it went down his stomach in 5 seconds.
"What do you want?" Devina glared at him with an annoyed face.
"Hey hey! It is you that came up here and started your own business here and you ask me what I want?"
Devina put her head in her palms and started shaking her head.
"You know, you would be cuter like your sister if you didn't have that attitude."
Devina stood up with her fists clenched. Her eyes were sealed shut. Her mouth twitched and twisted into a smile. She started punching Zerstörer in the leg.
He stood there watching her use his leg as a punching bag. He turned his head to me and then gestured with his index finger down at Devina.
"Alright little girl, say to your sister I said hi alright?"
Devina had enough and pulled out a gadget from her dimension and it wrapped itself around Devina's hand in an instant.
"Woah, woah!"
Zerstörer tried sliding away but a tiny bit of him was touched by Devina's hand. That tiny pit sent Zerstörer flying through six different buildings. He crashed through cement and stones, his body was swirling around like a spinning bottle, he ended up hitting the waterfall and splashing water all over the place.
"What was that Devina?"
"A punch."
"I know it was a punch, but what are we going to do now?"
"Well, I planned on talking with him whenever we would meet him but I guess he pissed me off a little bit too much and my hands got possessed by a demon."