-Vita (hivemind?)-

Well well well. It seems that this little boy, this little baby boy, is related to someone powerful! You hear that, people! People who are strong but still weaker as myself and I!? For too long, we have been eating mediocre beasts from different parts of the natural world! But no longer! This pushover with his dragon daddy will be the first step we take to being a hashtagging "cool guy".

We won't be attacking him, no, no, no. That would be primitive. Let's just play it cool, be the "cool guy". And since I am supposed to work with Diana for the next couple of years, until whenever her life expires, let's do something nice for her. Humans die in like, what, 5 years in these types of worlds?

-normal world-

The silence continued for half a second before Vita spoke up again. "Now that we are friendly and all, then a handshake is in order." A large, clawed hand reached out from the wall of vines. Jacob stared at the pseudo hand, feeling unsettled by its shape, but still reached out to shake it. And with that, Vita collected every piece of loose DNA that was easily available.

Sweat? Stolen. Dead skin cells? Yoink-ed. Jacob, without knowing it, has gotten the surface of his palm and fingers cleaned and salvaged and deep inside the wendigo, Vita would have smiled if Vita had a mouth to smile with. Sure, there wasn't really all that much diversity to take, but with the small chance that Jacobs 'normal' DNA had anything related to his draconic side or even his daddy? It was something Vita was willing to take. All this happened in less than a second, and the handshake was ended.

But the awkward silence still continued. Jacob looked somewhat unsure of himself, rubbing his hands. Rachel stared straight ahead, lost in her own thoughts and finally little Diana. Poor Diana was staring at the ground, still shocked by what was said to her. Was she truly useless? Her ability to fight on her own isn't the greatest, this she knew beforehand. But to the point that someone would act this way didn't make sense to her, since she has been training and trying to be useful. Her sight was turning blurry, but she did her best to blink away the tears.

This was quite clearly noticed by Vita, but it was of no matter at the moment. What did matter was keeping up the facade that everyone present were happy with each other.

The guests tried to start some small talk, but to no avail. The previous aggression shown by the monstrous trio had simply ruined the mood for many, some of them even used various degrees of mind related magic to calm themselves and their nearby acquaintances. And while that wasn't an uncommon occurrence to use such magics, it did seem to strike a nerve with Rachel. With a sigh and a slight drop of her shoulders, she spoke.

"Well, Rubert-Ree Jacob Firebrand, thank you for your visit, but as you can see," she turned her head to look at the people huddled together further away, "the people present doesn't seem willing to continue this party. Therefore, I am considering to end it here." She continued, speaking to Jacob, with her eyes looking to the old servant still standing by the entrance.

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"Ah, what a shame. I better leave before anyone passes out. It was a short but pleasant talk we had here, goodbye." Jacob said, short and to the point, opening the door and leaving before the servant standing there could do it for him. The crowd, worried, looked at Rachel as she signaled to the same old servant with a sigh. And as the people started to walk out of the area after an announcement that the party was over, some saying their goodbyes to her, she called for one of the elementals to come down and pour her a drink.

"I do apologize, Lady Diana, but that Jacob fellow is a troubled one. This is an open secret in the higher circles, so don't speak of it openly." She nodded to the troubled Diana before taking a sip. "His father is responsible for the military aspects of The Kingdom -my mother being responsible for the sea- and can be quite harsh to those around him. That includes his children and with Jacob being the latest one, he has gotten even worse according to the people closer to him. And as you experienced, that behavior is affecting his son." She finished her drink and walked further into the room, the elementals following after her as she checked on each of them.

Diana, deep in her own thoughts, walked towards the exit together with Vita, who looted each table they walked past, and promptly left the area. The only living being left was Rachel and the old servant, who at this point had walked up to her. A slight shudder washed over the servant as it fell apart, the color and clothes molding and changing to a different form altogether.

The creature was humanoid, but the uncanny alley feeling painted it as wrong. The upper body was humanoid to a degree, but it had the face of a crustacean and no other details on its head. Its arms were covered in carapace adorned with needle sharp spikes, and its hands ended in large claws with two finger-like limbs underneath them. Its lower body was four carapace legs, with smaller spikes compared to the ones on its arms, and a powerful tail could most likely break the bones in a man.

This, a mermaid of this world, creature stood next to Rachel for a second before lowering itself into a deep bow and waited for her to allow it to speak. Rachel, after tending to the elementals, brought out a small marble and broke it in her hand. A bubble of magical energy burst out and covered the two, and she signaled for the mermaid to speak.

"Attempts on gathering data on the wendigo were unsuccessful." it spoke with the same voice it used while mimicking a human, but it couldn't hide the natural clicking noise that followed the moving of its mouthparts. Rachel didn't seem bothered by this and signaled for it to continue.

"Any attempts to view its soul brought next to no results, however, it seems that the wendigo is keeping an item of unidentified magical properties inside it. Further attempts to scan the item were not attempted due to potentially angering the wendigo. Any attempts to view its mind brought no results." This caused Rachel to turn to the mermaid, her eyes questioning 'no results'. "No thoughts were detected, not even surface level thoughts. This is similar to most wild animals, but 'Vita' showing higher level intellect makes this a contradiction."

Rachel turned back to the elemental. "That could be a result by Diana's magical capabilities. Anything else to report?"

The mermaid took a second to respond. "... Jacob has gotten stronger." She sighed at the obvious and recalled the magical bubble, returning it to a simple marble.