Chapter 8 | Round table meeting

hiThe sound of birds chirping in my ears, I opened my eyes, I saw someone in front of me it was Asahi, she was sleeping soundly. Asahi opened her eyes, and our eyes met.

"Good morning Ina-chan"

"Morning Asahi"

"By the way why do, I feel you are becoming more mature? I feel a lot of things have changed from you, is it just my imagination?"

Of course, it's not just your imagination, ever since I absorbed the Dragon's heart, I feel like my body is growing, my height is increasing, and the weight of the things I'm carrying is also getting heavier you know what that means right?

"I don't know, by the way, why are you sleeping in my room?"

"I don't know"

Well, she is always like this, do whatever she wants. After that, we went to breakfast. Asahi made a food recipe book, containing a variety of foods that exist on Earth.

Kronny is a very good cook, when she saw the cookbook that Asahi made she was very enthusiastic and tried to make a variety of food every day.

The Shadow Phantom Knights are now under my command, and in the end, they bowed down with force.

I changed my clothes and headed to the palace. when I arrived in front of the palace gate a servant came to me.

"Miss Ina, Your Majesty is waiting for you in the meeting room"

I was ushered into the meeting place in the room there was a round table occupied by important nobles on each side.

"Finally you came Miss Ina"

"Apologizes for my majesty for lateness"

"No problem, sit down"

I sat on one of the empty chairs, I could feel some piercing gazes from the direction of the nobles.

Among those nobles, I feel some strong people.

"Alright since everyone's here let's start the meeting, I called all of you here to discuss the plan of Trevold's kingdom invasion, strategist please"

"Excuse me, your highness, I Regard will take over the conversation. We will first invade the Fermes.

This city is ruled by Marques Badra, he is only a rank B knight, even so, he has a lot of troops because he is a city bordering us, the number reaches 1000 Knights and 5 Magicians of Circle 3.

But that's no problem since we'll be sending the Shadow Phantom Knight Order there, I'm sure—"

Suddenly someone interrupted the conversation.

"Sorry for interrupting Duke Regard, but wouldn't it be better if Duke Orton became the commander of the Shadow Phantom Knight Order?

We can't rashly give someone a woman who doesn't know where she comes from, for this important mission!"

The noble looked at me, it would be difficult for them to accept an outsider like me on such an important mission, well I won't look away.

Suddenly someone knocked on the door.

"Come in"

Say the king. The one who entered was Mark, one of the captains of the Shadow Phantom Knight Order.

"I am one of the captains of the Shadow Phantom Order facing His Majesty"

Orton turned his face to the kneeling Mark.

"Mark, do you accept Baron Ina, as your commander?"

Mark raised his head.

"That's right, Your Majesty"

"But haven't you two fought together for a long time, How—"

"Marques Vista"

The king began to speak at once, causing him to fall silent.

"Y-Yes, Your Majesty..."

"Duke Orton and the Captain of the Shadow Phantom Knight Order have no problem, how about you Baron Ina, are you willing to be their commander?"

"according to your orders Your Majesty"

"Viesta as you heard, both sides have agreed so this matter doesn't need to be extended"

"Very well, Your Majesty"

This man named Viesta gave in to his complaints and accepted the king's decision gracefully.

"Duke Regard continue"

"Well your highness, once the invasion has been successfully carried out, I want Baron Ina to guard the city, we will let them send reinforcements.

When they realize our invasion, sooner or later they will send help from several nearby towns.

2 cities are near the City of Farmes, namely the City of Toba and the City of Zharf.

The ruler of the city of Toba is Baron Jared who has an army of 300 Knights Rank B and below. and Zharf City under Earl Michael's control had an army of 400 B Ranks and 20 A Ranks.

Most likely they would send half of the troops they had so the reinforcements they had amounted to 360 Troops.

There will be 2 Routes through which their reinforcements will pass, each Route will be guarded and prepared for a surprise attack. We're going to set some witch traps.

We have 10 Circle 6 Witches led by my wife Charlotte. The 5 Magicians will be sent to the relief route from Zharf City along with 50 A Rank Knights. Likewise for the Toba City assistance route.

I'm sure that's more than enough. to overcome his reinforcements. When their reinforcements we destroy....

We will be wolves wearing sheepskins."

"That's a good plan, but how do you know about the exact number of troops they have?"

The question was immediately answered by Duke Regard.

"Duke Orton is conducting reconnaissance throughout the city that is in the territory of the Trevold kingdom"

Amazing, being able to pick up so much of the opponent's information, although I don't know how long it took him to gather information.

"What if there's other help? For example, someone with an S rank who is in place right in Fermes City"

As I asked that question, Duke Orton looked at me. Trevold looked frozen for a moment.

"Are you saying that the information I got was wrong?"

Finally, he opened his mouth.

"Of course, I don't doubt a Master, but even so Trevold is still a powerful kingdom, Fermes City is the city that guards the frontier with this occupation.

They might have falsified information about their number and rank in Fermes.

Duke Regard is getting interested in what I'm talking about.

"Indeed it is quite suspicious, no. Actually what you say makes sense, Trevold has a 3 S rank, and Moskov is the best among them.

But if that's the case, one of the 3 Rank S might be sent to Fermes City without anyone knowing."

"Even though they have several S ranks. The one who will attack them is a Master Class leading the Phantom Shadow Knight Army.

I'm sure it's not a problem for you, right Miss Ina?"

Kekekekke, I love it, I like this guy, yes, of course, no big deal. Rather I wish there would be another Master class there.

"You're right Duke Orton, I seem to be making a fuss over a trivial matter"

"M-Master?!! Your Majesty is that true?"

Marques Viesta, Count Henry, Baron Kobralkov, and several other nobles were taken aback by Duke Orton's expression.

"Right"

His Majesty answered firmly.

"But, T-The title"

"Miss Ina, is a newcomer, I can't give her a title higher than that, you have to prove first whether you are worthy of a title higher than that, is there a problem with that Miss Ina?"

"No, Your Majesty, for me the title is just a name, I don't mind it"

"Okay, then I will end the meeting here, thank you for your participation"

After leaving the meeting room I went to the city for a walk, of course, I wasn't alone Asahi was with me.

"It turns out that it's not just my imagination yes you are growing, you are taller than before, what happened?"

Asahi looked curious, so I told her about the Dragon's Heart inside of me. Which accelerates growth and also stops it.

Of course, she made a cute expression, you know she was like "I envy you, that part grows fast. Tch"

By the way, at that time I accidentally saw a Blacksmith. I went into his shop, but Asahi was waiting for me in the city center, she said he wanted to buy some food.

"Hmm this sword is very well forged"

I looked at several swords, indeed the swords there were of good quality but none of them fit my category until I finally saw a sword that radiated energy.

"This...."

I dropped it reflexively from feeling the sensation of mana in it.

"You are very observant Miss noble, it is a Spell Swords"

"Spell Sword?"

"Yes, swords forged using magic stones, some wizard use this"

"Why is it?"

"Oh, it's because the spell sword is used to trick the enemy that the spell sword user is not a magician"

I see, it makes sense. When against a group that has a whole, they will generally direct.

But if they had a spell sword, the enemy would have a hard time knowing which one, and might even assume the group didn't exist for them.

Well even though this technique is only useful against A rank and below, I'm sure people at S rank can sense the Mana escaping from this sword.

"Interesting, by the way, I want to make a request"

"What kind of request Miss?"

"I need a sword, the length is 70 cm. The base is 20 cm, it should be double-edged and slightly curved. No accessories are needed, just use a simple scabbard"

"Okay Miss, I will prepare it in 3 Days, is it okay Miss?"

"Well, no problem"

After someone met Asahi in the town square and was about to go to Duke Regard's residence, I would rather ask Duchess Charlotte something, I wonder if she has any solution regarding the summoned.