Elves, Demi-Humans, and Humans, all the three races have their eyes on the grand entrance of the rulers of the four countries that are all together in a plan to prevent the demons from ever taking a step in the world.
The first one to enter the banquet is the rulers of the Elf only country, Meleia. The King, Athlante Ner'Ifir, together with his Queen, Dina Ner'Ifir. Following them is their three daughters, Princess Atalante, Pina, and Princess Aura.
The three sweet and bright elven
Princesses caught Edle struggling with his ever so elegant pair of red vest and coat embroidered with a leaf-design white trim that spews from his vest, his cuffs, to all the way down on his coat. A white triple frill neckerchief, and a presentable coiffed short black hair.
"Damn, this thing's between fit and not fit."
Edle irritatingly fixes his clothes continously, until the three elves went to him.
"Edle~! It's been a while, why didn't you come to the conference?"
"Edle~...?" Said, Edle in a bewildered tone after hearing his name being spoken in a rather suggestive way by the elder Elf Princess, Atalante.
The elder and first Princess gives off the appearance of a 19 year old girl, her glittering green eyes and her elaborate green gown matches perfectly with her undeniably voluptous body, one would say she is a godess. Even Edle could not help but get flustered, especially when looking around the Princess' head turning chest.
Another Elf Princess spoke and cuts in between Atalante and Edle.
"Atalante, stop attempting to seduce Edle, why don't you try doing it to someone your own age?"
"Jeez, you don't have to be so stuck in the mud, Pina." Atalante responded while pouting on her younger sister.
"Pina." Edle uttered.
"Yo, long time no see, Mr. Magicless Prince."
Pina is the second daughter of King Athlante and Queen Dina. In terms of human age, she is just two years younger than her elder sister. And unlike her elder sister who wears flashy, gorgeous outfit, Pina is sporting a one piece short skirt, sharing most of the design from Atalante's dress, but a little more simple and casual.
She is almost the complete opposite of her older sister in terms of personality. She is serious, she doesn't like fooling around too much, and most of all, she hates being all girly, just like Atalante. There are some slight difference between the two's physical appearance, but Pina has her own level of an appealing woman.
"Wait, I heard rumors that you can now use magic, is that true?"
"Y-yes..."
Edle points his left index finger upwards and a small ball flame is formed. He does it without hesitation as if he's trying to brag about it. The fire dispersed the moment he let his hand down, Pina and Atalante who is watching him displaying his capability in using magic were amazed. Including the youngest between the three sisters who suddenly speaks out of amazement.
"That was amazing, Edle Big-bro!"
A soft, innocent voice of a young girl spoke behind the Prince, Edle turns around to see the faces of both Pina and Atalante combined together in a body of a 10 year old kid.
White flowers put together in a form of a tiara is placed atop her lime green hair that she shares with her Sisters and her Mother, Tiny and cute elven gown that fits her innocent and young personality.
For the people inside the banquet, she's a cute, little angel that descended from heaven, but Edle doesn't buy it. He knows that the little girl in front of him is way way older than he is. So the charm of the cute little girl figure of Aura is ineffective on him.
"I still not have my full control over my magic, but just a little more and I'll master it like any other spell caster would."
"I see, your magic just awakened not long ago, so it's still like a baby slowly growing inside you."
"Oh, that's right I heard it was recently awakened, everyone is shocked when they heard about it, this is the very first time someone's magic is awakened after 17 years since you were born. I guess sometimes you can defy the impossible." Said, Pina, following Aura.
"Actually, my ability to use magic was from..."
Edle stopped from moving his mouth the moment he realized he's inside the banquet hall full of people all around him.
At that moment, he remembered the day she returned to their palace. In front of the Queen, the King, and the Head Priest. He faced the three of them with fire circling up around him telling them everything about him being able to use magic and how he got it.
"Huh? Your ability to use magic is from what?" Pina curiously said.
A person capable of awakening someone's magic is never a thing until he met Christa, not even a prophet or the greatest spell casters could do such a thing. If people were to know that a person capable of using such a great ability exists, the world would definitely have their eyes on that person. It's either they'll force Christa to teach them the magic, or they will use her ability for their personal gain. With that reason, Edle, Kaien who is watching over him not far inside the banquet hall, together with the Queen, Elena, King Castile and the Head Priest, Terramai. They decided to keep it a secret to everyone.
With that in his mind, he tries to find the correct words to answer.
"My magic... My ability to use magic is probably from my endless training since the time I thought I couldn't use it. Or perhaps it's because the Goddess Altera saw my determination and finally decided to give me the power to use magic."
Edle replied to Pina without letting her or everyone know the truth.
"Eh... So you believe about the Goddess' power and her existence... Well, I'm glad that you were finally able to use magic. I'm sure Seryo and the others will be surprised to see it."
"Pina big-sis is right, the Royal Sword Tournament is only a few months away, I know that you can defeat Seryo, Good Luck!!" Said, Aura with great determination in her eyes. "Oh, before I forgot, Happy Birthday, Edle big-bro!"
Right after, Atalante walks closer to Aura to tell her that it was supposed to be "Belated Happy Birthday."
"Huh? It's not supposed to be "Happy birthday?" Aura looks at Edle with confused eyes instead of looking at Atalante who spoke to her.
Still, Atalante explained to the young Elf Princess that the day that Edle turned 17 were days since it happened and were only doing the celebration tonight because the actual celebration were cancelled due to it being the exact day the Kings and Queens from all twelve countries were to attend a very important yearly meeting called the Rulers' Conference.
Hearing what happened made Aura feel sad on Edle for having a late celebration for his birthday, thinking that he must have felt bad for what happened.
Edle on the other hand, decided to approach Aura before putting his hand on her head. And with a convincing smile, the Prince said:
"It's fine, Aura. It only happened once, so I don't feel bad about it."
"Really?" Aura responded with an adorable teary face.
"Yes. That's why you don't have to feel sad for me, okay?"
"Y... Yes!"
At that moment, Edle completely forgot that the adorable little girl he's patting with his hand is actually 83 years older than him.