The eting between the ruler of Elves, Dwarves, and representatives of Humans progressed smoothly, thanks to Ayleen's ability to dig out information by exploring the mories of others upon eting certain conditions.
In addition, apart from so doubtful information, similar to the existence of a Crimson Princess saw publicly, the details were trusted by the Queen of Elnira, as well as her equerry and other close trustworthy subordinates; and by the Dwarven King and also those under him.
"In all my life, I have experienced war against them nine tis, in the span of 360 years, and this one will be the tenth. And in every war, there are only losses because of the lives that ceased to exist.
"Although it's impossible to have a war with zero casualties, I hope this ti that it'll be minimized."
The Queen of Elnira spoke, glancing at each and every one in the eting hall, but Russell inwardly told himself as he listened to the solemn tone…
'It'll minimize because of this alliance, but considering how pesky those vampires are, we have no choice but to join hands.'
"Furthermore, during the wars that I've fought, there's never been a ti when a Crimson Princess was exposed or seen even by a low-ranking Vampire Commander. In other words, I can safely assu that there's sothing different about that Crimson Princess that you've seen in the mories of the vampire."
"...Can you tell us more about it? Aside from being royalty, what's the big deal about a Crimson Princess?"
Ayleen couldn't help but ask even though she was the one presenting the superficial information, at the very least.
"First of all, you need to know that there are 12 Vampire Clans, but each clan doesn't necessarily have a Crimson Princess. Although that's the case, I can say that there might be more than 9 of them.
"According to the ancient history of our race, especially those that were recovered from the old lands of the vampires before coming into this world, there's sothing called the Apostle of Crimson, which is prophesied to be chosen successfully clearing a series of challenges presented to the candidates. by the Crimson Goddess – their progenitor.
"That aside, it is said that only a Crimson Princess can be considered a candidate, but the selection of the Apostle of Crimson will only happen if each Vampire Clan has a Crimson Princess that can participate.
"But… even though it's been a long ti, there's never been a case where 12 Crimson Princesses exist at the sa ti. It's either one ca after another's death or the secret determiner to be considered a Crimson Princess is being kept hidden from others for so reason or perhaps both."
Russell ticulously listened to the information given by the Queen of Elnira, trying to find a fault that would he consider a deviation from what he knew that's written in his unpublished novel.
'So far, nothing's changed. But… is he on his bedti?'
Russell, after so ti of looking around since the start of the eting, didn't see or even just feel the presence of the father of the Elven Queen, though he was aware that the queen's mother died in one of the wars against the vampires before even the occurrence of the Ergence.
"Hmm… if we take into consideration the nature of vampires based on your history, we can not rule out the possibility that so Crimson Princesses died even before the completion of 12 candidates. In other words, similar to us humans, we can say that there's a clan or clans among them that tend to get rid of a Crimson Princess.
"Since we don't know what will happen to the 12 Vampire Clans if the Apostle of Crimson is chosen, so of them might have thought that their powers will be centralized. And it's sothing that they do not want to happen."
This ti, after a while, Artorious Hall voiced his opinion as he unintentionally, but successfully gathered everyone's attention.
"Ho… aren't ya ashad of degrading your race by saying that those crimson punks are similar to yours in a way?"
The Dwarven King scoffed, but Artorious shrugged his reaction, waiting for the Elven Queen's perspective. Then after a few seconds of processing Artorious' words, the queen found it probable, but she added:
"We don't know if the birth of the Apostle of Crimson will be for good or destruction, but what's important right now is to beco proactive and launch an attack first. If they're keeping the number of Crimson Princesses in check, then we should at least be grateful. However, if it depends on our ancient knowledge, sothing like an Apostle of the Crimson Goddess would do more harm than good."
"Whatever it may be, based on our agreent, I'd be providing so manpower and mostly weapons as it's our specialty."
The Dwarven King interjected, feeling that the so-called prophecy for the Vampires wouldn't pose much threat.
"Alright. Let's formulate the plan of preemptive strike according to the mories she had gathered."
Looking at Ayleen, the Queen just nodded to the Dwarven King.
Ayleen then continued as she spoke in a polite manner.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
***
After a few hours of inquiring about other confusions and formulating a plan on how to proceed from this mont onwards, the formal strategic eting finally ca to an end. It was now ti to address the people behind the success of this mission.
"We formally introduce to Your Majesty, and the King of the Dwarves, the people behind the mission and the reason why we managed to possess valuable information that'd help us against the aggression of the vampires.
"They're a group of young rcenaries, but their skills proved that they're capable individuals."
Ayleen, in general, introduced them.
After that, Russell, who was sitting just beside Ayleen, stood up and bowed to the Elven Queen and the Dwarven King.
"It is my pleasure to et you, Your Majesty, the Embodint of Nature, and the Dwarven King, the Volcanic Craftsman."
"I'm Russell Moon, the leader of the rcenary Group, Umbra."
As he addressed the two rulers of their respective kingdoms, he shifted his gaze to each of them. His deep blue eyes were calm, exuding a convivial atmosphere, even though his tone of politeness had a mix of seriousness and formality.
The two looked at them with suspicion upon hearing a modifier that should have been known yet by their respective races and not by a human that they just t at this point in ti.
Before Freya could introduce herself, the Queen of Elnira asked Russell based on how he addressed her.
"Embodint of Nature? Interesting, but what do you an by that?"
Russell revealed a faint smile before answering without much thinking since he knew what to say in this situation.
"Your Majesty, as I looked around before my lowly self stood here before you, I've seen the happiness painted on the Elves, and the environnt of your kingdom, for , is all nature and serenity.
"And a thought struck , Your Majesty. Their happiness and this environnt must have co to the one who rules this kingdom and its people, who love nature and respects it as if it's the blessing of the Elven Goddess, whom I heard about as we proceeded in this mission."
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