Chapter 55: Banquet of the Seven

As Idun's nonsensical behavior is baffling Pollux, about the same time, a day before the banquet, in the Emperial Capital of The Great Human Empire, Tyrfing.

An emmensely beautiful lady is in a manor specially made for her to dwell in, however, even if one didn't observe so closely, one would immediately notice that the lady is not a human. That is because of the pure white wings in her back that signifies her identity as an angel.

That lady, is naturally, the Ruler of Angels and The Proxy Protector of Humanity, Selaphiel Morningstar. This lady, however, who have an image that can make two cities fall on their knees now have locked eyebrows, and her usually humble and ever so calm expression is now changed into a frownful one.

She is sitting on her private reading room with an expression that contains  worry and seem to be trying to figure out something out of a mathematical problems book, however instead of a book, a golden envelope that contains an invitation for a banquet alongside the Seven Rulers is in front of her. The invitation itself is not a problem, after all, just a while ago, Sigurd made a comeback after hundreds of years of seclusion and is probably now became the pinnacle of the knights in Camelot.

However, the reason of his reappearance is what Selaphiel finds the most strange, first she received a report that a giant goat that have a body of a human is attacking the said vassal nation three months ago, she immediately decided to deal with the matter, for it is obvious that such a monster cannot be handled by simple knights.

In that moment, however, she suddenly realized.

_That Monster is a Native of Valentine Forest of Death... Right?_

She immediately skimmed through her memories and confirmed the matter, at that moment, she felt a chill run down her spine and immediately thought that some strings is being pulled by a certain despicable prince of the Vampire/Devil Nation and immediately blasted her way into the direction of Camelot, however before she even reached the Country with her sound barrier peircing speed, a thunder, a single strand of it struck at the monster and immediately killed it.

Selaphiel immediately realized that this is Loki's goal, to bring Sigurd, The Thunder Dragon Slayer back to Camelot and with this invitation she also connected the dots that Loki wants him to be the hero.

However, that is the only thing that he can understand and is basically stupid to the more sensitive one. Loki, of course knew that she will understand his intentions to the point that she can reach the main reason of his schemes, that's why he used a counterintelligence method of making himself the focus of all the eyes of the Rulers including the Archangel of course, and make someone else  do the workings.

With that, all the Rulers can stare at him face to face and all that will happen is that they will either blush or be annoyed of how handsome he is and will not find any clue about what they want to find about. Furthermore, their is another matter that Selaphiel is frowning because.

Right after Loki got back his wife just before he saved his friend Idun, all of the contacts, Selaphiel have in Valentine, spies in short, all of the connections with them suddenly disappeared without a trace. Any kind of letters, intel reports and more suddenly just halted to come.

She immediately attributed it to Ophiuchus already moving and purging all spies that dares to think that they are sneaky in her presence, all spies of the Rulers is helpless about this matter and they can only intensify their anti-tracking abilities, but even then, all of it is in vain.

After all, Ophiuchus can find anyone in any places as long as she have a good understanding of the roads of that place, much more to her home country. With this "Spy Purge", Selaphiel lost all of her clue gathering ability and cannot further make deductions and thus the fog of mystery that she is slowly clearing up and finally got thinned down cannot be fully cleared and the scheme behind the fog will remain mystery for her.

Selaphiel continued to stare at the golden colored envelope that contains the invitation of the Vassal Nation, no matter how much she think about it, no matter how much she tried to decipher the intents of the letter orchestrated by the King of the Devils, no answer can or will come out of nowhere.

With that, Selaphiel is helpless and can only accept the invitation, she heaved a sigh that signifies her helplessness as she muttered.

"... What are you planning this time, Loki..."

At the same time, in the land floating above the sky known as the Sky Nation.

Sky Nation is not really a nation but more like a group of enormous islands that anchors the civilization of the strongest race on the planet, the Dragon Race. It is just called the Sky Nation because... Well, it is located in the sky.

The formation of the gigantic islands is basically: The biggest island and the most majestic, composed of castles, palaces and other structures that are modified to anchor the needs of the overly space consuming size of dragons.

This island is in the center and acts as the economic and industrial capital of the territory subsequently, this place is also where the residence of the Dragon King Oroboros is located.

Outside the center island, four islands located in the north, south, east and west respectively can be seen and they are obviously smaller than the center island, this islands are the resource centers of the Dragon Race, their products that they sell into the land are produced here, originally Dragon Race founds people that cannot fly as inferior to them and thus they think that the "land dwellers" doesn't deserve to behold their appearance.

But when the people that cannot fly showed their strenght in the war of the rulers, giving birth to strong people called Dragon Slayers, furthermore when they saw that there are people that doesn't even need to drink their blood to become strong and can still fight them on equal grounds and can even kill them with relative ease, they immediately recognized them as equal.

They might be prideful, but they also respects and recognizes strenght, they can also admit mistakes and adding the gentle attitude of their Ruler towards the people that cannot fly, they warmed up into them, and now, trades between the two different races is now a common occurrence.

In this prosperous Islands in the sky, a single man is sitting on a giant throné, the throne is azure blue in color that contains an Oroboros, the Dragon of Eternity as a design, the Serpent that represents Infinity coils around the throne in a majestic manner.

And naturally, the one who is sitting on the throne is the King of The Dragons, Oroboros.

In front of him, two humans that looks like messengers are kneeling and presented to him gifts with a golden envelope in their hand containing an invitation.

The invitation is late because of the difficulty of accessing the dwelling place of the Dragons.

"Eh... So there's something like that... Seems like I have to see what's that Dragon Slayer is all about huh?"

Oroboros' tone is gentle, it is so gentle that one can sleep when one is to hear  his ever so lovely voice that didn't represents his title as the strongest Ruler of his generation, but for some reason, the humans cannot help but fell a bone freezing chill.

_Please be Okay, Sigurd-Sama._

The messengers are helpless, after all, they are just messengers and not even an important subordinate of their master, as such they can only wish for him to not dive into deep trouble.

On the same day, in an unknown land devoid of any lush greenery and only miasma of never ending darkness prevailed.

A woman with heart shaped tail walked sensually, her walk will immediately make a certain King of the Devils grow a tent in his crotch area, however the lady, or Asmodeus of Lust will not even bother for him for her Lust is only for her master Lucifer.

Asmodeus went in the left side of her master who is sitting on his throne, pressing her enormous breast into the shoulder part of Lucifer, Lucifer didn't even bothered about it making Asmodeus dejected.

"Master, your answer for the invitation is already needed."

Lucifer didn't even moved nor have any changes on his facial expression and just let out a "Hmph!" As he said.

"Alright then."

With that, the stage for the banquet is officially set.

Who knows what will happen in the banquet, a banquet attended by the Seven Strongest and the most influencial individuals in the world.

Will it be peaceful?

Or, will it be chaotic? Will the relationship between the races that got tarnished because of the war two hundred years ago will walk towards a more positive one? Or will their animosity between each other will just increase?

Either way, one thing is certain.

The world will be swept by this meeting, and this occasion will soon be called:

Banquet of the Seven.

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Author's Note: The Ruler's Appearance will be described in the very day of the banquet, so bear with the mystery vibe.