Reiner POV
After the fight, we went outside to help the participants of today's gala against the intruders who were only slowly retreating as help arrived and are standing outside the large barrier.
Now they got people from both the front and back end, they seem to be waiting for a mage to teleport them which may take a while since I'm sure they were expecting to kill a major portion of some of the most influential people on the planet, may have well worked, but Perseus was luckily attending.
Drake and Pike did their job wonderfully in leading and minimizing the casualties, but I doubt they could be the difference in fighting against Phineas just now he was incredibly powerful for a 10-star.
Though, based on Rowan's statement, he hasn't been a 10-star for long, so he isn't used to his strength yet as it will take time to adjust to using the upgraded body, even Perseus would require about a week or two before he can use his new strength at the best efficiency.
And speaking of the boy, Edward is now going to be more relentless than ever in trying to get his help by convincing father for permission to have better offers, though the reason why we can't offer better in the first place isn't entirely father's fault.
That lies with the high nobles, they are very against the idea of bringing any more outsiders to help in the future fight, they also got a hero's vote, Rolan, specifically. We already adopted a person from that village, we have the people who will grow to be the strongest in less than 10 years' time with the addition of the future saints and people like Lloyd in the group.
People doubt that wasting so many resources to bring one person over, but we may just be too late if we don't keep going, the demons are offering a position that amounts of wealth and authority beyond what we can ever offer.
We don't need to match it, we just need to make it close, wealth is easy to match, but authority is the one that's hard to even come close to, even then, we already have a good relationship with him and his village, we just need to make it close enough that it's stupid for him to not accept.
Rolan is against it for one main reason, it's because his family raised him with those values, his family is one of the oldest ones on our continent, and they are very prolific in their help and sacrifice throughout the years against demons and their undying willingness to bring over the heroes at the cost of their own lives.
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After we repelled and kill all the intruders, I was in charge of damage control, but one thing is for sure, people are scared of the sole demon on sight, she didn't do much this time, and that makes it hard for me to gauge her strength, it'll be great for us if we can gauge an average strength of one.
But now, a new faction that I never thought would rise showed up with the biggest surprise ever, a new power, a so-called power of angels. And that scares me, the powers were on par with the ones that the roses possess.
I know that Perseus possess something when I witnessed his great speed, but I need to learn more, maybe that 'bible' in the royal library needs some attention after all these years in storage.
"Edward, would you mind reading that collection of books in the 'religious' section, you know, the-"
"I know which ones that you're referring to." Edward replied "But what should we do about the boy?"
"I'm still thinking."
"The heroes are mostly neutral on recruiting him, but Rolan's outspoken nature is the biggest wall we have to face if we want to recruit him, we simply don't have enough resources to offer."
"Luckily not everyone of the heroes is against it, but Rolan does have a lot of influence, though he will lose out later on as he will be the weakest in the future." Rowan joined them "Sarah hates his guts, but even she knows that if he swears to a side, he'll be loyal towards it to a fault, I'll use my influence to see what I can get from the other continents, you 2 get something from your father, if we lose Perseus, might as well call the war a loss."
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Perseus POV
After the fight, we teleported back to the hotel before people start coming to their senses and persecuting Lilith and start connecting me to the disappearance of the krakens, Drake and Pike tried to confront me about it, but Rowan pulled them both to go somewhere for something important.
Maple is in there looking at her collection of postage stamps and some souvenirs she bought, so we then discussed about the full story of what happened, the sisters with the exception of Leilah is more and more intrigued by the minute about the conversation of the angels and all the other biblical explanation I can think of.
I told Ruka some stuff about myths of the previous world, she was intrigued and didn't ask for more, but now, since it's more relevant than ever, she put a note in her diary of what she plans on doing if we visit my old world.
Maple was fascinated about what people worship on the other side, Lilith too, though she already knew some of the things I talked about since she have studied a lot due to her boredom.
"Anyway, we pretty much have to be ready to leave at all times, Drake and Pike can come at any moment in the next few days to interrogate about the disappearances of their strongest army, well except Maple, since she's not really a criminal."
"What about my reward?" Leilah asked "I did a pretty good job of using the shadows to slowly move them without the 2 noticing."
"I didn't promise any reward though."
Only a short time before the tournament and a troublesome enemy showed up, ah fuck, damn you divine beings, why must you make my life hard.