Chapter 58: Agenda

Observing the six of us in the same place at the same time for the first time since hundreds of years ago, I noticed one thing. This people, or atleast most of them is still not fully recovered after the remnants of the war.

Except for my sister who didn't need anyone to protect her, Oroboros and Selaphiel didn't bring subordinates. The reason why Oroboros didn't brought anyone is because in the war, all of his trusted subordinates died in the hands of the Dragon Slayers and because he cannot just choose people randomly to fill in the gap that will result in him reducing the power of his personal force, until now, he cannot find a suitable replacement to the Thunder Dragon that was slayed by Sigurd and other dragons that he personally picked.

At first, it seems like arrogance, but no, in his many years of living, all his arrogance is gone and wisdom of unprecedented amount is just present, thus he didn't believed that someone like him who is not even able to move his true body because it is coiled to restrict the 5th dimension is someone so invincible if it so happens that all of us attacked him.

So he just make it look like that in an attempt to make us kind of fear him. But it won't work for me, or even for all of us.

Selaphiel's case is not like Oroboros', she just cannot tap on any angels in her territory because she is living in the emperial capital of Tyrfing and it will be inconvenient for her to call for them.

This three people didn't have subordinates to see in their backs, while Me, Idun and Lucifer have people serving us in this banquet.

I got Benetnash and Nyx.

Idun got Libra and Virgo.

And Lucifer have Kuro of Silence, well I'm more comfortable in calling him Silence so let's call him that.

He have black hair, black eyes and a little tanned skin he, is a human who obtained longitude, unlike Guinevere who's lifespan seized to exist, he just got another hundreds of years of lifespan. He wears a tattered samurai kimono and have black colored katana in his waist.

As his title suggest, he is not someone who speaks at all, hell I didn't even heard his voice and even his expressions is just neutral.

I also did some intel work for him before and I knew all of his abilities. He doesn't have any abilities to speak of except his Swordmanship that can match Hiroshi and except for Gawain and Arthur, he is the only one who can challenge Hiroshi in a fight of swords, equally.

After the glance of analysis of mine, I noticed Selaphiel's gaze towards me, her angelic face that usually looks so humble now have brows that are tightly knitted and her humble demeanor is wiped out, she seem to be in a hostile state against me, I just gave her a smile but it seems like she misunderstood it and gust of winds immediately started to make her hair flutter about as she looked at me with the eyes of an Archangel and not the eyes of the angel of humility.

I just want that smile to be a simple greeting but she misunderstood it as something like: "You know this is a plot right? Why don't you tell them? I dare you."

However, why would I yield and say , It's a misunderstanding? I also locked my brows and let my out some of my power, suddenly the comic and fluttery atmosphere in between the Rulers of the Seven great races became dead silent and freezing cold in an instant.

The gust of winds is somewhat restrained and just caused the hairs of the normal people around us to wave violently, the other Rulers beside us except Oroboros is interested on what would happen next while the people in the city became anxious.

Murmurs about an impending city destroying fight between the Queen of Angels and the King of Devils Immediately resonated into the whole area.

Will they fight?

Why are the others not stopping them?

Let's run!

Mutters such as those and words among those lines started to reverberate, surely they know that Rulers are strong but they rarely saw people that can make gusts of winds with them as the epicenter, so how can they be not terrified?

Weak people are just like that, they pretend wether  consciously or unconsciously that illogical entities such us ourselves are not true and all of us is just one big fantasy, however, they also know that we are a terrifying reality that they cannot go out to no matter how many dreams they will have in their sleep.

Me and Selaphiel started this simple display of power that greatly annoyed a peace loving person like Oroboros, he appeared in front of us and with his own gust of wind extinguished the little traces of our power that is leaking from our body that caused the people to he terrified.

"Are you two really not disciplined enough to not cause a commotion in front of many people?"

A deep and domineering voice came out of the chibi sized Oroboros, causing me and Selaphiel to behave, I let out a small snort as I said:

"Oh scawy~ now that I am tewefied, how about we follow the secretary over their to the banquet hall?"

My attitude garnered me different types of looks from the Rulers and people alike, some are shocked, some annoyed, while others looks at me like I an overconfident bastard, but of course I have to ignore that to save the ass of my wife, of course the secretary is Alice in the persona of Anna, she immediately understood my intention of giving her a way in this situation that three people are about to fight in front of her, she's pregnant after all so stress is a no-no.

"Thank you, Loki-Sama."

With those words, she coughed and made the ever so common bow of respect, she stretched her left hand, gesturing into the front door of the palace of Camelot.

"Rulers of the Seven Races, my master have invited you for a banquet and he is gratified of your favorable response, please let me guide the way into the banquet hall."

Her words have some illusion into it that unconsciously calmed down the two upbeat people behind me, the other rulers noticed that fact but because the illusion is strong enough to calm down the angered Rulers, they ignored it causing their recognition of Alice to soar.

They didn't need to be surprised, after all, she can fool someone like Sigurd through her magic, so fooling another ruler is not specifically a challenge for her.

"Lead the way."

I immediately said and thus we started to walk, all people can noticed the awkwardness and little hostility between the six of us, after all, me, Idun and my sister are in the same front two hundred years ago and the three of them are in three different fronts, they might not be allies but they're all our enemies, plus they are also enemies of each other so the atmosphere is a tangled mess.

If not for us not making any moves against each other, seeing the tense and weird atmosphere between the six of us, our subordinates might have acted, but they are clear headed enough to know that they will be tarnishing the pride of their master if they moved without us doing so.

So they bear with the wrong feeling of seeing other people show hostility to their master and only Virgo looks different to her ever so calm face, is she nervous because she's in the same hallway as this strong entities?

Is she furious about something? Who knows, people can only see her brows slightly locked tight and her  footstep are a little heavier like she's just came out defeated in a quarrel.

Only she knows what she's thinking.

Of course I also know what she's thinking, but I do not have the time to describe her feelings as because at this moment, the banquet hall is already in front of us, the grand chandelier in the middle of the golden roundtable, a color that represents the former glory of Camelot and several knight statues portraying the twelve greatest knight of history, The Knights of the Roundtable can be seen.

Even though they are called knights, they don't have armors and only the statue of Gawain and Mordred have one, Hiroshi as a samurai obviously favors speed and dexterity so naturally, she won't be wearing such heavy burden of an armor.

Her among others have different characteristics and reasons that is unfortunately one of the few things I don't know in Camelot.

If one is to observe the table and one is close enough to the former Hero Arthur, one would notice that this roundtable is the table that the Knights of Arthur held banquets and gathering and in the very middle of the seats, man doning a golden armor that compliments his burly masculature  and his similarly golden hair and eyes is present, he also normally have a spear alongside him but because this is not a fight but a banquet, he obviously left it into his room or wherever it is right now.

He is the one who invited this pile of eccentric people in this very place, the one who killed the Thunder Dragon Laxus and the sworn brother of Arthur, Sigurd the Thunder Dragon Slayer.

"Please take your seat, Venerable Ones."

The butlers in the side of the seats that are also overly decorated said so, pulling the seats in a practiced and synchronized manner, the six of us looked at each other and immediately went to a tacit understanding.

We went like this: in the right and left of Sigurd respectively their is Selaphiel and Lucifer, in the two sides of the cross middle portion there is Oroboros and Idun and My sister and I went to oppose Selaphiel and Lucifer respectively in the other side of the Roundtable.

This table is huge because it was used by twelve people but with the Roundtable disappearing and now only the Rulers that are only seven in numbers are using it so it is unavoidably spacious.

The Seven of Us doesn't have a friendly relationship and a huge canyon that cannot be transversed even after two hundred years is in between us, we didn't even made pleasantries with each other and didn't talked with one another in the banquet.

It is so sad that I want to declare that I will be courting Selaphiel to make Lucifer explode, but that would anger my sister so I would rather not, good thing that I already instructed Alice to not beat around the bush when the time comes and immediately raise up the agenda.

"My master invited all of you to discuss and evaluate him as the one who will take the position of Hero, completing the Seventh seat in the Seven Rulers."

The atmosphere instantly froze, all of us already expected this thing, much more me that I am the one who organized this event and pulling strings since the day I was unsealed.

But before that, let me tell you the requirements of being a Ruler.

First, being a ruler needs a race to rule and represent.

This is self explanatory, after all the term ruler is a term use to define a leader of a certain societal structure, City, Town Prefecture, Province, Kingdom... All of them have rulers, we are just in a larger scale because we represents  a whole race.

Second, a ruler needed a territory to manage that said race.

In me and my sister's case, we have Valentine and is a mixed Kingdom of Devil and Vampires.

Third, being a ruler, of course requires strenght.

How can one just use diplomacy in this world that a one on one fight can cause forests to have large amount of clearings? One needed a fist that can suppress the outside threat of their Race.

This three points will have to be passed and will be presented to the current Rulers.

Naturally, all of us got through that process.

Well, are you disappointed because the requirements are not solely related to brawn? You should really just look at things realistically.

What kind of Ruler can be decided by just him being the strongest of their race, right?

If that is the case, then we might as well be called The Seven Idiots instead of Seven Rulers