Chapter 32: The God of Wine

[3rd POV]

Ainz had left soon after the exchange had been confirmed, alongside large stacks of books that were promptly put away into his storage. Each of them being filed away so that he could read them later, in hopes that some of them could have magic that he could use in the future.

Whereas Wanda had almost immediately made dozens of books based around the memories that she had gotten from Ainz. And these weren’t just dozens of the same books, but dozens of new books. That was how much knowledge she had gotten from Ainz, and how many spells the man had that could be useful in the future.

The man had seemingly also thrown in books regarding the spells and even other magics for free, for what he had called “A gift to ensure their ongoing relationship”, which was likely because he was terrified of her. As while his physical form couldn’t show it, she could tell that mentally speaking, the man was scared of her and her immense power.

The books would be quite expensive, as not only would they give them the spells, but upon the books being bought, it would also grant the buyer the ability to use the spells. As the spells in question were inherently different from normal ones, and required things that normal magic users wouldn’t have.

She herself didn’t have this until she gave herself it. And could now use all the spells, but to a much much stronger degree than anything Ainz could do. Things like creating a localized black hole was now strong enough to make a universe destroying black hole. Things like spells that caused instant death, now caused instant death to even conceptual beings. Stuff like that, all of it stronger and better than ever before.

The spellbooks all had a separate location on the shelves due to this, and had a warning on them about the price tag associated with them. They weren’t going to be cheap, that’s for sure. Likely thousands to tens of thousands of dollars mattering on which book they choose.

After Ainz had left and she had put the books out, she allowed the next customers to come on in, her eyebrow raising at the sight of who it was.

It was Percy, Annabeth, and Grover.

“You again!?” Annabeth groaned out, as Percy just let out a small laugh at the reaction. At the same time, Grover looked nervous, but less so than last time.

“Me again! Now, little demigods, what’re you doing back here? I’d have thought you would never want to return to my shop with how much you seemed to hate it last time” Wanda said with a small smirk on her face, as Percy snorted.

“You mean they hated it. I didn’t mind it too much, and those comics you gave me were awesome! Really useful too! The water bending is actually pretty cool even in real life” Percy said with a grin, as Wanda smiled.

“Well, there’s the other books in the Avatar series if you’d like them. Ah, and Grover, I have gotten a few more books on animals and nature if you’d like to see them. Even a few spellbooks on nature and such. Same with Architecture, Annabeth” Wanda said, as she noticed their eyes brightening a bit, only for Annabeth to shake her head and cough.

“Sorry, sorry. But um, do you realize where your shop showed up this time, Miss Wanda?” Annabeth asked, shaking off her excitement at the prospect as Wanda raised an eyebrow.

“Hmm? No, I let it appear wherever it wants to. Makes things more interesting for me” Wanda replied, as Annabeth let out a sigh.

“So you don’t know that it appeared in the middle of Camp Half-blood? And that Lord Dyionysus is outside with Chiron?” Annabeth asked, causing Wanda to raise an eyebrow, her gaze traveling outside the door into the Percy Jackson universe, where a tiger striped Hawaiian shirt, and a man with the lower half of a white stallion.

“Huh, it seems they are. You wanna let them in? I’ve always wanted to meet a Greek God. The ones in my area are a bunch of…annoying individuals” Wanda said, remembering the Greek of the DC universe, and how annoying they tended to be. It didn’t help that they were also immensely powerful, not as powerful as her, but still strong enough to be an irritation.

“Um, okay” Grover said as he walked out of the door for a few moments, Annabeth joining him as Percy instead opted to go and look at the other Avatar comics. They were all pretty interesting all things considered, and could be useful for his water based powers inherited from his father, Poseidon.

A few moments later, the two walked back in, alongside a man with Chiron who trotted in, and Dionysus, a bored look on his face as Wanda looked at him with slight interest. She could feel his power, and its unique signature, different from her own, and any she had run into so far.

‘How interesting, his power is inherently tied to worship and not only that, but it’s tied to the very concepts that he represents. And quite powerfully at that. I wonder, could I mimic that and tie the concept of magic and chaos to myself? Or maybe even other concepts like Mystery? Or knowledge? Definitely something I’ll have to try out in the future, as it would be quite interesting to become an actual God’ Wanda thought in amusement, feeling that the man was powerful, but not even remotely in her realm.

“So you’re the mystery lady that had a door appear in the middle of the Camp, huh?” Dionysus began, as Wanda looked at him.

“I am. And you’re the God of Wine, right? You’re a bit underwhelming to be honest. I was expecting the Greek Gods to be a bit more…godly” Wanda said, as besides the unique power, he was underwhelming in pretty much every way.

At the words, the four others in the room all flinched back, looking at her like she was crazy, well, except for Percy who just smirked at the response, as it sounded like something he would say, well, at least it was something he would say if he could.

Dionysus looked at her with a bored look “You’re going to be an annoying one. So, what’s this place? And why is it in my camp?”

”What does it look like? And it’s here because I wanted it to be. I sell my books to anyone and anything that can pay with currency, exchanges of knowledge, and books of a high enough value. Even you Gods can probably find something in here that would be of interest” Wanda responded with a shrug, not really caring for the flabbergasted looks she was getting from the others, and the raised eyebrow from the God.

“You’re quite the arrogant one, aren’t you?”

”Hmm? No, I’m just certain that you can’t do anything. Now, are you interested in any of the books offered here? Or perhaps my cafe? I do offer drinks and foods of all kinda” Wanda replied, being blunt with God, as she had a feeling that he would prefer it that way.

“Cafe? You got any wine?” Dionysus asked, ignoring the absurdity of this situation, as Wanda smirked and a glass of wine appeared in her hands moments later, causing the man to look it over with interest, before gripping it, and taking a sip.

The moment he did, his eyes widened in surprise, as he began to drink more of it, the entirety of the wine inside disappearing moments later.

“…How much for your entire stock of that wine?” Dionysus asked, as she raised an eyebrow.

“Books, and it matters how many. As I have quite a lot of wine. Ah, and not just any books, but ones that are based around magic, that you Gods have written, Demigods, stuff like that” Wanda replied, inwardly squealing in excitement as the man nodded slowly, before snapping his finger, as Wanda allowed him to use his power to summon whatever it was that he was summoning.

And the next moment, ten neat stacks of books appeared around him, over 120 books, each of them entirely different to one another and unique. All of them being magical in nature, or related to Greek mythology in some way.

At this, Wanda excitedly smiled, as she snapped her finger in response, 5 large barrels of wine appearing on the counter in front of her.

“This should be enough to pay for those. Ah, and I do have other wines if you’re interested, but it would require more-“ Wanda was cut off as he snapped his finger and another ten stacks appeared.

“Well here you go then” Wanda said, another 5 barrels of various types of wine appearing on the counter as the man grinned at them all, lifting them with his power as he began to walk towards the exit.

“Thanks for the wine. I’ll be back for more in the future, next time I’ll bring one of the others, they’d probably be interested in your wares. Oh, and I’ll bring better books next time too, so prepare some more interesting wine” Dionysus said simply, before exiting the shop, but not before sticking his head back in.

“Oh and Chiron, let the brats shop here. She’s got a lot of books that might be useful for them” Dionysus said before walking out, leaving them alone with Wanda who gleefully summoned all the books behind her in neat stacks, and a confused group of two demigods, a Satyr, and a centaur.

The group of four had only one thought on their minds as they registered what just happened, and that was…

’…What just happened?’

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That’s the end of the chapter!

No idea how well I had written Dionysus, as I haven’t written anything on him yet.

Question to me peeps that read my vault fics. Would you guys be interested in more male lead stuff? Or just stick with women? Cause I feel like I’ve been doing so much female lead MC’s, that maybe I need to ask if y’all want more variety or not.

Speaking of vault chapters, one or two should be coming tonight.

Fanon Maker should be coming today (finally), likely a bit later though as I am spending the next few hours out and about as it’s really nice where I’m at.

Anyways, have a good day!