We made it to the castle and entered the meeting room where my father was sitting on a marble and red velvet throne.
I greeted my father turned around at the envoy and spoke.
"This is my father his majesty Lucio of Serothor I will mostly be the one negotiating in this meeting but my father has the final say and royal authority in this meeting and city"
Most of the people following Alberto bowed including the nervous looking man infact he seemed to bow even deeper than the rest.
Before I could direct the prince to his seat he sat down on the most elaborate chair which was meant for me I am not petty enough to start a fight but he was more annoying in real life than the books.
The prince started speaking or rather saying his demands.
"Serothor will vassalize under the empire exchanging both military forces and resources and in exchange the former royal family may have two years of running the cit-"
Before the prince finished a voice rang out.
"Shut the fuck up you insolent little brat!"
Shock radiated throughout the room and the source of the noise was right beside the prince the nervous man with no hair and blue eyes spoke again.
"I humbly apologise for crown prince Alberto he doesn't know the way of the world I am an agent of his majesty the emperor as such I am hereby invoking my right as Chief advisor to relive the prince of the negotiation with Serothor"
I instantly remembered who this guy was he was the scapegoat for the 3rd prince's diplomatic failure just before he got executed he was able to secure an alliance with an elven clan.
In effect saving himself so he did have the right to take over negotiations if at the price of an inquiry I looked at the prince who had his mouth covered by the chief advisor.
Then the advisor spoke again while tying a gag around the prince's mouth causing the escorts he brought to stare in disbelief.
"My name is Erickson Vo Vali please forgive us and start the negotiations with what you want out of our treaty"
My original plan was to break the prince's pride and make him a snivelling brat making him sign an unfair contract this made the conversation easier but it will be harder exploit the treaty.
I spoke while looking him in his eyes.
"If this is all alright then I shall start saying what we want out of the treaty"
At his nod I spoke again.
"We want full sovereignty of serothor and the surrounding area, we want full military control of our army and resources, we will maintain the royal family and laws of serothor we want support from the empire"
As I went on Erickson had his face pale but he spoke with an air of confidence.
"And what would we get in return? those are quite rare conditions for a vassal treaty"
Once I heard him spoke I corrected him on what we were proposing.
"I think you are mistaken we don't want to be a vassal nation we want a protectorate treaty"
The prince seemed to have something to say but I couldn't hear him through his gag.
"Grrrrarmph"
Erickson spoke without any sign of change on his face.
"Well that is hard but doable but you still have not said what we get in return you're a city state surely it isn't just your military support?"
I shook my head as I replied.
"Of course not though yes our military help is quite beneficial I tell by the look on your face that you know what I mean"
He nodded in reply I smiled I knew from the start he could sense aura he was a large man with a prince he had no other reason to be nervous then he spoke.
"Well yes the fact you have an army of people about to awaken is suprising but we still need more than the 5000 I counted the empire has many people with aura and many more with martial arts"
I spoke back looking him in the eyes.
"Well if you want a list of things we can offer you I will start now let's see... new innovative weapons, a strategic location, a new ally... oh and a person who has prophetic visions"
Erickson looked shocked then pulled out a piece of paper and nodded and spoke.
"Well we will need to test your prophetic ability and see your so called innovative weapons"
I let out a small chuckle and spoke.
"Well for my prophetic powers tell your king that within the week he should send more forces to the eastern front in secret and burn green wood over the empires crop fields as for weapons..."
I took a breath before speaking again.
"We will have to walk to the battlements follow me oh and bring your prince"
We all started walking to the serothor battlements on the eastern walls were I had the cannons remaining slime gel gathered.
Once we arrived I introduced the weapons I had reinvented or rather plagiarised.
"We have the hand cannon and the wall cannon also a slime grenade"
Erickson looked at the weapons and spoke.
"Would you be so kind as to give us a demonstration?"
I nodded and spoke.
"Of course which would you like to see first?"
Erickson looked at the weapons then replied.
"Okay then let's use the slime grenade"
I smiled and spoke.
"Great this particular weapon hasn't been used yet but I must warn you if used incorrectly it will hurt the person who uses it and it may be possible that it can be thrown back before it activates"
Erickson spoke.
"Activates?"
I ignored him and grabbed the grenade it was a miracle no one got hurt creating it the pin acts as a stopper for the fire rune on the the inside which takes 6 seconds to activate.
I pulled the pin and threw the grenade as far as I could not wanting my arm to be blown off the grenade hit the ground and a second passed and just before Erickson was about to speak an explosion rang out.
*BOOM!*
I turned back to Erickson and spoke.
"What would you like to see next?"