49 Red Troll's Cavern

Sona was... Nice. At the time she was still cute and I could see she had a favourable impression of me. The problem is that I knew how she would be like in the future. She would end up too strict for my taste, and a sticker to the rules.

Furthermore our hobbies and aspirations were too different. She wished to improve the underworld as a whole by upgrading the education standard of the mass, while I simply couldn't care less about what was happening since I had no intent to live here in the future. As for hobbies... She only liked chess and training. While I'm OK with a game of chess here and there, I didn't found the game that interesting.

So no, I would not marry her.

And after I finally discovered my father plan I decided to take another long term vacation. And being sure someone would try to track me and bring me back if I went to Asgard, I decided to go to my house in Kyoto. The place was warded like crazy, especially against scrying magic.

This is why my family discovered a sheet of paper in my room when coming looking for me after I did not come down for the mandatory family dinner. In it was written "Since I'm bored and father's lesson suck hard I decided to take some vacation again. Don't look for me, I'll come back when I feel like it. Bye".

I learned later my father was pretty much enraged that I gave them the slip and insulted him like that. And I also learned he DID hire people to track me and take me back. The problem is that everyone though I was in Asgard, and when they said I wasn't nobody believed them.

another funny thing was regarding my earlier commitments regarding painting orders. Since I did not intent to go back in the underworld for a while, I send all my clients a single message :

"Following the wish of my father lord Zeoticus Gremory, I have been living in harsh condition for the last few months. Since I see no reason to continue living in forced seclusion in an attempt to break my will and become a nice little puppet, I decided to run away. You will of course understand why I will not be able to commit to my previous engagement in these circumstances. If you have any complaints, please address them directly to lord Gremory.

Best regards,

Alexander Gremory"

Why is it funny ? Because they actually DID sent complaints. Once again I was floored when I learned that. Asgard even filed an official complaint against house Gremory when they learned they were sequestering one of their citizen. I did tell the truth of the matter to Frigga since one of her painting was in my house in Kyoto, but she still told me what my father did wasn't acceptable. So the complaint was maintained and father got a lot of bad publicity.

Tough for him, fun for me.

Now back into my true workshop I could initiate another big project.

I wanted to create a fixed space accessible from any door in the world, as long as you had one of the key leading to it. Aside from it's individual use, it would also become an integral part of my grand plan.

I wanted this space with a rule assigned to it : no fighting. This way this space would become THE place for mediation as well as a great place to foster inter pantheon relationship, or simply relax.

Why would I do that while I didn't care about the possible civil war in the underworld ? Because I believed that the current underworld is doomed with it's current political structure. Furthermore, I don't live in the underworld, so if it goes in flame, it's not really my problem.

On the other hand, I would be more bothered if an inter pantheon war would suddenly start. I am part of this world after all, and I don't want to see human butchered left and right as collateral damage.

This is why I wanted to create a bar in a pocket dimension. That's right, a BAR. It would be called 'The red troll's cavern'. And it would be glorious.

So just like that I took a breather my magical coding project and first started to create a pocket dimension. The creation of the pocket dimension in itself didn't require a lot of component, something obvious when you have access to some of Ophis scales.

So what I did was basically create a spherical wall in the dimensional gap using a remodelled scale as an anchor and magically said 'inside this, it's mine'. Sounds simple but it's actually super complicated to do. But after a few weeks of work, helped by Celina, I was able to do it.

Celina and I were now the owners of our own pocket dimension. At first, Celina was reluctant to be an owner with me, saying shit like a servant shouldn't have as much power as her master, but when I told her she was the only one I trusted in this world, she just beamed at me and said "You're right young master, it's a maid duty to manage her master's pocket dimension after all".

Once again, I'm pretty sure a maid isn't suppose to do this but well, as long as she's happy... Why should I care, right ?

Afterward I extensively engraved the anchor with runic magic to create the 'laws' of the dimension. Things like 'impossible to attack or oppress another individual', 'impossible to use magic, divinity or powers to influence someone's mind or emotion', stuff like that.

And so after two months, I had a stable and peaceful dimension. It took another month, but I had a fully decorated and furnished bar. The entire design was done by Celina. Why was she responsible for the decoration and not me ? She told it was a maid's duty to decorate any property owned by their master.