Chapter 54: Preparing for War
In the throne room meeting, all commanders were present except for two commanders, Commander Robin who had already left the capital for his mission that the emperor gave him to find the missing princess.
When the soldier came running and told them that a massive monster army was coming from the portal and preparing to launch a war on the continent.
Robin heard this and he quickly abandoned his mission and started coming to the capital but the Emperor gave the order to return to his mission once again.
The Emperor knew invasion was important but finding the unknown princess was also necessary.
So sending one commander was the right decision in his mind.
He also told the minister to assemble five princes and two princesses as soon as possible.
Now in the throne room everyone's face turned dark because the information they heard from the soldier was very concerning and alerting.
How they failed to detect monster invasion. If the soldier did not see them, they didn't know that there was a massive army in their empire waiting to attack them at any moment.
The first person who spoke after hearing was the fourth prince. The fourth prince with golden hair and black eyes wearing an elegant yellow dress saw the atmosphere. He did not know much about war and he did not participate in any war but he knew the situation was serious so he asked,
What were our plans, who was invading?
The fourth prince was one of the prodigies of Duskwild planet. He had raw power to lift a mountain on one hand and his cunning skill no one matched in his generation and his name was Prince Leopold Noahheart. He trained all his life to achieve this strength.
And he was behind the schemes related to the unknown princess.
Everyone also slowly started asking questions from the soldier who gave the information, why they were invading us.
The soldier was under great pressure but he didn't know much about who they were and why they were invading and why they didn't move and start attacking.
The Emperor summoned everyone because his inner voice was telling him this invasion was not simple, this invasion was going to change everything.
When the throne room door opened the minister came running towards the emperor and handed over a piece of paper.
The Emperor already sent one of the ministers to gather information.
The Emperor started reading and then the Emperor said that we are being invaded by a race known as the Stone Plant.
They were invading us to capture our entire planet.
Everyone was shocked for a moment but they had already guessed, but they wanted to confirm it.
When the second prince heard him say that weird name of race, his name was Ronan Noahheart. He was wearing a royal dress with black eyes and golden hair. He was known for his intelligence and military tactics. He single handedly defeated a massive army of ogres by using only his brain and tactics.
"Yes brother you are right, the race name was weird."
Her name was Princess Seraphina Noahheart and she was the first princess. She was wearing a long red gown that covered her entire foot. Her hair was red and eyes were also red with smooth white skin unlike her brother who had golden hair and black eyes.
She was known as the Blood Princess. She killed an entire army that came from the Central Continent to capture Diamondheart single handedly.
The emperor listened to everything that his son and daughter were saying and after hearing everything the Emperor said that we do not know about how they entered our kingdom but I already contacted SHO and they said that they are collecting information about the race, their history, their weakness and everything that can help us and he will send information as soon as possible. They already gave us the details of their race and their aim.
And then the emperor ordered something from the same minister who came here with a piece of paper.
The minister nodded and quickly left the throne room and then returned quickly while holding a hologram projector.
He quickly placed it in the centre and started running and then images started showing how stone plant monsters look.
When the minister started telling what the emperor said a moment ago, that we did not know much but one thing was certain, they were not from this planet.
Their aim was to capture our planet and for some reason they were not attacking at this moment.
And then he pointed to their centre where the green light was coming and from our information that SHO gave, this was their weak spot. The minister who was saying this all time was March. He was the most trusted minister of the emperor.
And we didn't know anything anymore.
"Then why are we waiting, rushing towards the battlefield and crushing the monster."
Fifth prince Orion Noahheart said. He was not as good as his brother and sister but he could make decisions immediately without thinking of consistency. In short he made decisions quickly. He had the same look as his brother except his eyes were blue.
When the Emperor heard he immediately scolded and said to Prince Orion, No, we cannot attack without knowing the monsters' agenda.
The Emperor moved his gaze towards the third commander and said, commander tell us the information that we had until now.
The third commander's name was Cael Rockwhite. He had a black beard with black eyes and hair with one hand made of wood. He moved towards the hologram standing at the side of March and pointed his finger at the hologram and started telling about the details.
First they are coming to this world by portal and they can open it at any place but they decided to open it in a nameless village like minister March told us.
We don't know the details of why they opened in the nameless village.
We immediately blocked all the teleportation spells and devices so they cannot open a portal on the planet anywhere except for this village.
Second, their race's name was Stone Plant according to the SHO report.
And then they showed the image of these monsters while attacking other planets to everyone.
Third, they also came here one year before but they were defeated by an unknown force that we do not know.
After saying that, everyone knew what the commander was saying and they knew if their intuition was right then this was going to be a mess.
Because if they already knew about us, our empire's strength and weakness, we would lose easily without damaging them.
Afterwards, the commander continued and told them that we had launched an expedition team to find the unknown person who dealt with them but we did not find any details about who defeated the monster.
We only found massive destruction and everything turned into nothingness around 2 km and there was no sign of their dead bodies ,So we conclude their bodies were also destroyed.
And then we asked the villagers to find the one who defeated him, they told us we do not know. By the tone villagers were talking they were definitely hiding something.
So we used a different approach, we sent our soldiers disguised as merchants.
But we couldn't get the answer. The villagers were completely silent and didn't want to talk about the incident.
So we used our last chance and started bribing them but they could not tell us about the details. At last we found some villagers who were willing to tell us in exchange for money.
From their information they said that an old man defeated the monster.
When we investigated the old man, we found that he was not capable of defeating that monster. He was only the rank of Grandmaster.
At last we could not find the culprit who was behind defeating them.
Murmurs started in the throne room. Everyone started talking with each other about the situation.
And then the Emperor said in a serious tone, "What was the name of the old man?"
When everyone heard they stopped chatting and focused on the emperor's words.
Commander Cael heard and said that his name was Arthur and then Arthur's image showed on the hologram.
Everyone could see that Arthur was weak and his status was only as a Grandmaster that was not capable of defeating the S Rank monster.
The Emperor stood from his throne.
He knew him. Everyone forgot him but he could not forget him.
He could not forget his name at any cost.