Adventurer Arc Prologue:

Lumen Kingdom Capital.

At a long exquisite and beautiful sculpted stone table there lays 10 well wooden carved chairs with rose patterns.

The king sits in the middle.

There are 4 chairs on both sides of the table, left and right of the king.

Seated in these 8 chairs are the current heads of the most famous and powerful noble families.

One of the 8 seats is vacant.

The 8 strongest out of all the existent 800 noble families that reside in Lumen kingdom.

Such households receive the title of a colored rose.

Each head receives 5 colored rings, of equal color to its family title.

For example, Alfred received 5 white rings with white rose patterns from his father.

Whom he passed on to Alicia the future heir.

These rings have 2 skills imbued in them.

One of them is that they adjust themselves to the finger of the selected person.

The other is that when the time comes to select the next knight the ring shines.

Once it shines it allows the successor to find the ring-wearer.

A magical trail appears indicating where they have to go to find them.

The king spoke, "I thank you all for attending my estimated reunion."

Everyone bowed their heads.

"You may lift your heads, today I have unhappy news to share with the 7 of you."

"One of you is currently on a mission, but the information presented here will be shared."

In Sylvia's mind, she thought, 'For that person to not be here it means this reunion will be serious.'

"Call her here Sylvia," the king ordered her royal guard who was standing at the door with another one.

Sylvia and the guard opened both doors and she said," the king has summoned you, Saintess."

A young woman with long green hair and green eyes stared at Sylvia for a moment and spoke.

"Thank you head of the royal guards," she moved inside the room.

An aura made of mana emanated from her giving a sense of tranquility and warmth.

The guard who was next to Sylvia thought,' yet another monster joins the room.'

The Saintess looks at the guard with a boring look as if reading his thoughts making him gulp.

Then she moved to the table where the king was, she bows gracefully in her long white dress.

She says, "I've arrived king Lark Lumen."

"You may rise, Saintess, I'm grateful that you came so promptly."

To that, she replied," Of course your highness."

She thought, 'Kraus wouldn't shut up for a month if I hadn't come here.'

"I hope his eminence is doing well."

"Yes, your highness despite his age his health seems to somehow get better as the days go through."

"That almost sounds like a bad thing Saintess," the head of the black rose commented.

Saintess thought, 'this fellow always trying to provoke me, one of these days...'

"Not at all," Saintess replied with a faint smile.

Charles was a handsome black-haired man with brown eyes, known for his persistence towards the Saintess.

She ignored him for years completely knowing fully well he was a womanizer.

Despite this, he was a capable man of great political strength.

Someone to be wary of certainly.

If the Saintess wasn't who she is, for sure he'd have her kidnapped by now.

The king laughed at this conversation and says, "the two of you are always too humorous."

"Thank you for your kind words your highness," Charles spoke with a charming smile.

Another voice is heard.

"I'm assuming that the Saintess presence means that it is about the rumored premonition she had 8 years ago?"

"That is so Alfred of the white rose, sadly for everyone here the premonition has been declared a reality recently."

Alfred the owner of a house who trains swordsman, his swordsmanship is the strongest in the kingdom.

A man who sees honor above all else, even above his family members.

Known to have only lost one duel during his prime, and against a woman.

He ended up marrying her and later have a daughter, Alicia.

"Do we know who's the attacker, your highness?" Alfred replied.

"I've brought the Saintess here today to know more about it myself thus summoning all of you."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Saintess sit on that chair opposite of mine and tell us about what you saw."

"As you wish your highness."

The guard helped her with the chair.

"Thank you, sir Rudolf."

"Always a pleasure Saintess," he said despite what he thought earlier about her.

"I'll start with what happened 8 years ago towards my most recent visions."

"My first vision indicated a war where our kingdom ultimately got decimated by an army of black armors and green flags."

A dark-skinned woman spoke, "green flags? is there such an army that uses them?"

This woman is famously known for her archery skills.

One who decided by herself who to marry instead of allowing her parents to decide.

She's fairly beautiful with her light brown hair and eyes.

Is also known for her two dark-skinned sons who are also very good-looking and have an amazing mastery with the bow.

"Elianne of the green rose, I believe that a green flag is one of the factions towards the south where the beasts live?" The king questioned as he looked at the Saintess.

"Yes, I had some of the oldest members of the church research the old books."

"Did they find anything? Eliane asked feeling worried.

"Yes, we found something of relevance but..."

Everyone looked at the Saintess with extra attention as she said but.

"It was from one of the old books, the invasion of a level 100 goblin king 150 years ago, where the 10th hero summoning call was done by our goddess Aria."

A wave of nervousness filled the room for a while as she finished speaking.

Charles decided to break the silence with a question.

"Did it invade alone? Since by itself at such a level it would be already quite powerful to deal with alone."

"He invaded together with its army leading the kingdom almost to its destruction."

"That's... a nightmare," the king replied while wiping his sweat with an embroidered handkerchief.

"Back then two heroes had been summoned and trained for some years before the king moved..."

A tanned man who was observing the Saintess soon started speaking as he had a question to make.

"By your expression, it means the goddess hasn't relayed one of her divine messages, right?"

"That is so Ryu of the blue rose," the Saintess replied with a sad look in her eyes.

Upon hearing that his confirmation was right, he crossed his arms and went into deep thought.

'There's a chance that it's the same goblin than at that time, goblins learn with their mistakes.'

'It wouldn't be abnormal for him to wait this long to rise a new army as well.'

'Even his level could be higher for all we know, as we are now...'

He stared at those around him as if to confirming something and then he back into thought.

'If on top of the heads we gather the strongest adventurers and organize the military correctly...'

'We also have the vision of the Saintess who gives us some time to plan things properly.'

'If it was a surprise attack, we'd be all dead by the time it happened,' the man looked at the king.

"Your highness, I have a plan I'd like to discuss."

"I understand Ryu, but I want to ask a few more things before we go into the next phase of the reunion."

"As you wish, your highness," he replied with a patient serious tone.

Ryu is a black-haired man with dark blue eyes and is known for his vast knowledge in the arts of war.

One of the youngest generals in Lumen's history and one of the best.

He received enough achievements to stand where he is now.

The king thought, 'A very capable and educated man this one, he has done a lot for this kingdom.'

"Yes, one of the pieces of information I wanted to add to this conversation is the date of the invasion."

Everyone went quiet including the king as his intentions were read by the Saintess.

"The invasion will start somewhere in 5 years."

"There's not much time left then, we must organize ourselves, put our soldiers into shape."

"Exactly your highness, the earliest the least casualties," said Alfred of the white rose.

Zylph a man known for his quietness during reunions opened his mouth.

An eccentric man with red and white hair.

Famous for his money and power.

Infamous for his tastes in both genders, especially men.

"Your highness."

He received the immediate attention of everyone around him.

"Yes, Zylph from the grey rose?"

"I believe it is in everyone's interests to not evacuate those who are currently living in the outskirts of our walls at the south."

A woman smashed her fist making a loud bang noise on the stone table and at the same time, Sylvia moved at an abnormal speed.

The sword was now in her neck.

'This woman has gotten faster from the last time I saw her, she's quite the monster,' Ryu thought.

"What is the meaning of this Angelica of the golden rose?" The king questioned upset.

"There is no way we're going to abandon our citizens, how could he even think about it," she shouted.

Angelica is one of the few nobles known for her kind heart.

She doesn't belittle peasants or looks down on people.

Sees every human as they truly are.

She's also known for her extremely muscular body and physical strength.

"That's enough head of the royal guards."

The king said as he thought,' it was just another one of her emotional outbursts they happen every once in a while.'

Sylvia sheaths her sword and returns to the door.

A ginger-haired man upon watching Angelica spoke.

"I agree with Angelica, I'm also in opposition to abandon the southern territories," the head of the red rose family stated.

The king spoke, "nothing's decided yet."

"I'd like to know the reason for that argument Zylph," Charles spoke curiously.

Before giving a chance for Zylph to reply, Ryu spoke.

"If we were to move the villagers, the goblins would find suspicion finding the villages empty and know that we were waiting for them."

Zylph looked at Ryu who was next to him from bottom to top and thought to himself.

'Ah, how I love intellectual men, the things I would do to him if I could.'

He nodded in agreement with Ryu and said, "it would certainly lower our chances of victory."

Angelica clenched her fists as she heard Ryu taking his side.

Seeing as people were nervous and angry the king took a decision.

"Before we continue let's take a break to calm down and enjoy lunch together."

"Call the servants outside and tell them to bring the food, Sir Rudolf."

"As you command your highness."