Chapter 56: The Day of the Banquet

The stage is already set and only the main event, in which the Banquet of the Seven is being anticipated.

All participants of the historical banquet, is at the same time preparing or answering the invitation, some of them just answered now because of the distance between their territory and the place where the letter came from and some are just being high and mighty, their are also some who smells a huge scheme out of all this event.

Even then, all of them, the Seven Rulers namely:

Dragon King: Oroboros

Archangel and Hero(Proxy): Selaphiel Morningstar

Demon Lord: Lucifer Morningstar

Devil King: Loki Darkbringer

Vampire Princess: Eris Darkbringer; and

Fairy Princess: Idun Marchenwald

All of them, with motives, different from the other have one thought in mind, they have to meet each other after a long time. Even though their relationship have a huge canyon between each other and in exaggeration only Eris, Loki and Idun are the only "friends"or "allies" that have their status as people tightly knitted with each other still in place, in the end, in a place that contains the Seven strongest entities that exists in the world, no matter how big the continent is, they will surely will meet in the end.

Rather than meeting each other when the situation is already sour, why not just meet each other when they are still in a "peaceful" state and is just consolidating their power?

All of them are not cowards, maybe Selaphiel, as her name implies cannot be directly compared to be a good fighter, but if her hands is forced to throw punches, then she will surely pack a huge force. If not, then the fight between her and Eris would never be recorded.

That's why, because of their much "awaited" reunion, and maybe because of pride, all of them answered yes in the invitation that Camelot's Magistrate sent them.

In the manor of the head knights of the vassal nation Camelot, a man with golden hair is staring in the letter of replies that came one after another in the day before a banquet, evidently giving a sigh of relief as he, who have a very manly look made a smile that will a man courting his beloved would make if he finally made a progress, however instead of a lover, the reason is because of the Seven letters lined up on his table.

At first he thought that a request from a Disgraced Kingdom and now is just a puppet nation would be ridiculed and be rejected right away, if not for the magistrate being so confident that the letters will serve its purpose before being thrown away, he finally had the resolve and confidence to send the letters to those stubborn Seven.

This aspect is what Sigurd lacks currently, confidence and charisma, in power, he will and can stand up in the same stage as the Seven Rulers, but in charisma, he is far away behind them, which Sigurd cannot naturally accept.

After all, this meeting is for him asking the permission and approval of the Rulers to make him one of them, the protector of humans, the hero of humanity. He naturally cannot let some magistrate who can just sign around documents and be protected be more confident than him, however how can one truly blame Sigurd?

Just a few months ago, he is just a part of a destroyed Royal Family of a destroyed nation... He who is not a worthy member of the Pendragon Family.

For he committed a grave sin, a sin that caused the destruction of his nation, and more gravely, the eradication of his family.

He, who have sinned against his brother Arthur secluded himself in an unknown mountain and just spent the day their waiting for his death that will never come, after all, he is someone who drank the blood of the Thunder Dragon, so how can he die by starvation and by other means? He is immune to thunder and obviously will just get futile results when he stabbed himself to death.

So he just sat in a mountain, in a daze remembering his mournful past day in and day out, atleast that's what he was doing, when one day, when he is asleep, the moment when he will forget all of his memories and will not mind about it, he suddenly found himself in a dream, a dream with nothing but white light. He knows its a dream because its bright, it is still night outside so he can deduce so.

The white light didn't subsided but a very familiar voice resounded, the voice was not from north or any other four direction, rather its like the voice came from the very space that he was in at that dream, it was like an omnipotent being, however the voice was not from a deity nor a god.

It was from his sword brother, Arthur as the voice said: "Sigurd, please save Camelot... My nation needs a new hero."

With that, he suddenly was snapped back to reality.

_What was I doing up until now? Am I a fool?_

Sigurd was suddenly jolted awake, he didn't thought of anything but just thought of how stupid is he by not thinking of something so simple, Pendragon Family is not destroyed and the Chivalry of Camelot is not dead, for he, the middle brother of Arthur still existed.

He immediately went to Camelot and saved it from an impending massacre and with this, he also got the drive to be the hero by the persuasion of the knights and the support of the magistrate. He was very thankful, at first he thought that he will not be accepted.

But who would have thought that he will not just be accepted, the people of Camelot even trusted him so much that they will basically put their lives in his back and let it carry all of them.

Sigurd felt warmth in his heart, a warmth that he can only feel when his brother is alive and his sister is with him.

Thinking of the past, Sigurd didn't even blinked and suddenly went to look at the window.

"I will not fail to protect your land this time, brother."

[Loki's POV]

The sun hung high up in the sky, illuminating the skies of Valentine, the bustling twin capitals have soldiers roaming around them, in order to prepare for the impending absence of the two Rulers that protected the nation.

This is the first time that the Royal Sibling of Valentine left at the same time, for many hundreds of years of their lifetime, more so when the two of them took up the highest positions of the country, when one of them is to leave the nation, another will watch out for the country

The best example was when Loki saved the life of Idun.

As such, the country that is bustling is... Well, still bustling, however a solemn and tense atmosphere is lingering, however they are still as same as always. After all, they are the proud Vampire and Devil Race, how can they, who survived the worst war to ever unfold and still maintaining their gigantic strenght doubt their strength?

If the civilians, even for a second thought that the army cannot destroy any surprise attackers, how can they still have the face to look to their Lady and Lord?

That's why,the atmosphere is as such, tense yet calm, solemn yet light.

Well, isn't that nice, atleast we will not have to worry about our backlines, well, I mean, we really do not need to worry because Guinevere, Arachne, Igraine, Ophiuchus, Chrysaor, Altair and Vega is in the back. With this star studded line up, if someone really tried to do something funny, his surroundings will just look on and say: "Oh look, an idiot."

Well, with that the national preparations of me and my sister is already in the right track, we just have to repeatedly say to the commanders and generals to not let their guard down. After all, even for all the things I said earlier, there is still a certain someone living in a rocky mountain range that have a horny girl as his secretary that can still attack because of him being a world domination degenerate.

After making them annoyed with the words of my subordinates to not get arrogant, I immediately went to make my personal final preparations, even then, I already have battle ready subordinates to accompany and only final briefing is needed to be done.

They can just make minute adjustment themselves, as a former educators in an academy that indirectly being controlled by the military, their are many scenarios of them being dived in a very dangerous situation, so for them, facing challenges is not really an issue anymore.

Let's just say that making them meet the strongest people of the world is just upping the stakes for them to thrive for more.

With that, my preparations are pretty much done, and also, Arachne is also preparing my attire, apparently it is unacceptable for a Ruler to wear his everyday attire in a formal banquet.

When did my suit became my everyday attire!?

... Wait it is.

Thinking so, I let her be and also allow myself to thank her everynight. My preparations, who is already easy in every sense of the word is still one upped by my sister.

Why? Because she doesn't want any subordinates to accompany her, so she just have to sit still and make her maids look for her a suitable attire for her and do nothing.

No actually, she is doing something, though I don't want to think about it in broad daylight so let's just say that she is doing nothing.

Well all in all I can say that our preparations is being done pretty well, my behind the scenes preparations is already done and I can just pull the net to make my goal be achieved, though some other side of me wishes for it to not succeed, or even just to not achieve its designated result.

After all, if it so happens that my plans is to be accomplished and the result is as expected, then their will be a generational friendship that will be cracked apart and will instantly in the verge of collapse.

But even so, the nets is already tossed and just needed one strong pull, so I cannot back down now and can only wait for the plan to succeed.

Thinking so, without me realizing it, the day passed, I don't have the mood to have sex in the night so I stayed in my office to read books to pass time, in the morning, my outfit is revealed.

A prince outfit, with red, black and gold as the main colors, it also came with a pair of white colored gloves, of course with this kind of Royal Outfit, I have to style my way to look the part, so I made my hairstyle have changes too.

I made my bangs that covers my whole forehead in a sidebrush, I made half of my bangs go to the left side of my head, covering the left half of my forehead and going down till the end of my eyebrow, the other bangs is then tucked in in the back of my earlobe.

All of the people around me, even my sister can't help to look at me, well, I mean, I rarely change hairstyle and pays more attention in my clothes, so yeah, that's to he expected.

All in all, I looked like a proper prince now, a very handsome yet so dangerous one.

Compared to me, my sister is more simpler, she just wore a black dress, without her weapon. Honestly, this is the most optimal choice for her and I can't imagine her wearing any other color than black.

Suddenly, as I was scanning my sister, a carriage of extravagant design appeared in front of us, accompanied by a maid and a butler, whom both bowed lightly, saying:

"Lady Eris, and Lord Loki. Let us accompany you to your journey towards Camelot."