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Van Horgh slammed both of his hands down onto the table, glaring at the chieftain of the wood giant clan, who had just claimed to be a far descendant of a god.

"What sort of mockery is this?!" he yelled out, "The blood of a god?! What kind of blasphemous nonsense is this supposed to be?!"

Eisen snapped his finger, and the sound echoed out through the room. The archpriest flinched at the sound and glanced toward the old man, who quickly pointed downward, telling Van Horgh to sit back down. As he did so, Eisen started telling the story.

"Cool it. She's telling the truth. She's a descendant of Nazirath. During her life as a simple mortal, Nazirath had a lover that she yearned for even after her divine ascension.

In order to be with him just one more time, she pleaded the goddess Aria for permission to walk the world below, and she was granted the opportunity," Eisen explained, leaning back in his seat, looking over at he wood giant chieftain, "And I was certainly quite grateful for said opportunity as well.

At some point, I was able to come and go from the divine realms as I wished, but back then it wasn't all that easy quite yet."

Van Horgh's anger quickly turned into confusion, "What are you... What are you implying?"

"I'm not implying anything. I'm saying that I was Nazirath's lover, and that Martira is not only her, but also my descendant. From around 95-thousand years ago, but still," Eisen explained, looking over at Martira with a smile. There wasn't anything like a familial bond between them, after all, they were a couple hundred generations removed from one another.

The blood of a good was able to persist through that many generations, since it wasn't the genetics that mattered but divinity of the soul; but Eisen? He was basically nowhere to be seen in the wood giant chieftain's bloodline anymore. Instead, great men and women took his place that he could not be more proud of.

"This is... this is insanity," Van Horgh muttered, "How dare you-"

"Please, quiet down," Ambriel spoke up, before Eisen could. They locked eyes with the archpriest, "Your voice is causing me a headache."

Though Eisen was a bit surprised to see Ambriel's demeanor return to what he knew of them, he was more than happy to welcome it. He was sure that they were insanely anxious, though. The angel's wings were slightly tensing up behind their back, and the divinity seeping out from their flesh was apparent even to those that weren't priests.

Last time, they were a prisoner in chains, thrown in front of Van Horgh to use them as a sort of proof that Eisen was who he claimed. But now, they proudly stood by his side.

Not sure what else to do, Van Horgh turned to the other priests that had accompanied him, but none of them seemed to have a solution for him. Before he could finish, Satel spoke up with a laugh.

"You know, Eisen's pretty well-known to have numerous kinds of relationships with the gods. Relationships like brothers, parent and child, and even lover," Satel pointed out, holding a hand in front of their broad grin, "The fact that you don't know that is honestly sort of embarrassing. Didn't you claim to be experts on the divine?"

Stunned and unsure what to respond, Van Horgh just sat there, as Aaron took the opportunity to face the giants again, "I sincerely apologize for his behaviour. I simply want to assure you that he does not represent all of us.

We are aware of how these matters work in your country, even if not fully, as is obvious," he explained, trying to fix the mistakes as much as possible, "Of course, this does open the door for another point of discussion that I'm sure was the intent behind Archpriest Van Horgh's suggestion. Something that goes beyond the financial or tangible that we may trade by ship or carriage.

An exchange of our cultures, of who we all are as people. I am convinced that there are many things that our countries may learn from yours, and if I can be so bold, I wholly believe that you will find that there are many things you can learn from us in return."

The room was filled with a unified breath of relief as Aaron quickly mended part of the damage that Van Horgh had done. Of course, that didn't mean that all was suddenly fixed. No matter what Aaron said, the meaning and intent behind Van Horgh's words were obvious. And that wasn't even mentioning the tenseness that was created just by some of the central continent's demands.

Most notably, the demand of having the giants essentially send slaves over to the central continent.

But for now, it was time for the giants to read out their offers and demands as well, so Eisen smiled at Aaron with a quick nod, "Thank you, prince. Now, to get back on track, may the Irngrad present the giants' offers?"

Without hesitation, the king of the giants stood up from his seat, "Of course."

And so, the Irngrad started listing the offers of the giants' country. They were actually quite happy to give a lot of things, it seemed. Rather, plenty of the demands from the central continent were already met just by the baseline offers that the Irngrad was listing. However, as forthcoming as the offers were, the demands were just as intense.

Among them were the demands of certain natural ressources that weren't available in the giants' country, information and technologies that had been developed away from the giants' eyes, as well as a complete truce between the central continent and the giants' country.

"If any individual country within the central continent does show direct hostility or even the intent to wage war against us on their own, all other countries must take our side and actively strike down the aggressive force," the Irngrad said, glancing over at Van Horgh. The Holy Empire was the country that clearly wanted this war the most, but they were also a landlocked country.

Without active support from other countries, they wouldn't be able to wage a war against people of another continent. But that wasn't all either. Rather, the most important demand was yet to come. It was the demand that was needed as a baseline for these discussions, "Our last demand is that all giantfolk receive the exact legal rights and protections that people are given.
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Now, for clarification, this does not mean that giants should be automatically naturalized by your countries, simply that instead of being treated as mindless beasts, we receive the full priviliges that people do in each of your nations."

Eisen took a deep breath as the envoys from the central continent started muttering amongst themselves. Of course, no matter if they wanted to do trade with the giants, at the end of the day, the giants were still monsters. That was something that wasn't going to change, so the idea that they should be treated the exact same as people was just ridiculous in every single way to many of them.

At the same time, there were plenty of envoys that were happy to oblige; rather, some of them were in favor of such a change in the first place, as far as Eisen knew. According to what Komer had told him about all of them, at least. However, the problem wasn't the ones that were unsure; it was the ones that were practically disgusted by the idea.

Knowing that something bad could happen if he didn't, Eisen cleared his throat to get everyone's attention while also exerting some pressure to keep everyone silent.

"Thank you to both sides. For now, we will allow each side to reconvene for a while so that you can have a short discussion amongst yourselves, and then we will return back to the main exchange. We will deploy a sight- and sound-proof barrier between the two sides of the room, so feel free to speak openly to each other."

With that being said, seeing that everybody was ready, Eisen snapped his finger and activated the magic tool that triggered said barrier. Like that, the room was split into three parts; a section for the central continent, one for the giants' country, and one for everyone from Asgard.

Eisen immediately let out a loud, annoyed groan, "It's been maybe fifteen minutes... Why the hell are those guys so difficult?"