Conquest: Life in a VR

Will you join?

While Toda was back at the Henmer Manor house, he and Gaius were both having discussions on what the objectives of the empire was, Gaius opened up to Toda saying that the empire was in the selective stage, he said they were waiting for the leader of the heroes party to be decided, apparently Gaius was also a hero candidate, "you see my friend, i am one of the selected few heroes candidate, i acquired five spirit and one of the demands of a hero class is that the candidate must have more than four spirits, so i was signed up at the guild by my father."

Gaius explained the demands of a hero to Toda and then suddenly a man walks in, with knights at his side, along with the man came the other two that Toda encountered in the plains with Gaius, they came to Gaius and bowed, apparently they were his personal entourage, Gaius then worded out, "Gil, Elizabeth, i told you not to bow to me, I might be nobility but I'm not royalty, you're my friends get up, welcome father, how was the trip back from the Imperial Kingdom?"

The man replied, "Ah, Son, how've you been, the trip went well, the empire is making a move, I've been sent to Elliot, seems like the training and screening of the Heroes is to commence tomorrow, our kingdom Archdale, is where it'll hold, so kingdoms from faraway, the east, west and south have all been sent messages, as the north we are the only defense mankind has against the demons, already, we have received candidates from the Elven kingdom in the south, also the Beast Folks in the west have sent their candidates, then the Dragon men from the East, finally we humans have but two candidates which isn't exactly at the quota, we need two more and fast."

Gaius then looked to his father and told him about Toda, "father, this is the young man i told you about, the one that has mastered the lightening strike style, one of the top three strongest sword style in the world, apparently today we went to the guild today to check out his spirit and his vessel has been blessed and can converse with seven sacred beings, this young man might be the one." Toda didn't understand what Gaius meant by the one, the man looked to Toda and spoke, "Young man, Can i meet you?" Toda stood, putting one of his knees, taking a bow and then he spoke, "Forgive my misconduct sir, i am Hisaki Toda, a Traveller on a journey to end world conflict."

The man gave out a big laugh and said, "Ah, i see you're well mannered, well its okay, be at ease." Toda sat and Julius ordered his servants to serve them a drink, while the Ale was served, the man spoke, "I'm guessing you already know who i am by now, but I'll still tell you, i am one of the seven prime ministers to the emperor, i am also the head prime minister in the Empire of Khetis, Julius von Henmer." The man paused and gulp down the ale while requesting another, he then spoke again, "i heard you took down a high ranking undead demon without magic, just your skills, and right now the demon race is on the verge of breaking the seal, we want a scenario, where when the seal is broken we already have a force ready to repel them, you see we have tried all possible best to stop this seal from breaking right after they were sealed by the first offspring of the gods after they disappeared, those men gave their life and all to seal the demons after they rampage through the world, but now no other way to seal it because the seal cannot be replicated, so our only hope is to kill the them all even the Arcane god, and now you come in, we don't have enough man power to repel against the demons, so every human strong enough to fight will be needed, seeing as you have skill and your magic is no joke as you have acquired seven spirits blessing, i want you to join us, the grandmaster at the adventurers guild has sent your name to the emperor, join us."

Toda closed his eyes, raised up his head and looked to the man, "I'm sorry to disappoint you sir, but i refuse." Julius smiled and replied to Toda, "Very much expected, what is your reason?" Toda looked to him saying, "well to start off, I'm in a foreign land, in as much as i want to end conflict, you can't just bring me into your army and handover a weapon of mass destruction to me, i could be a psychopath even worse a terrorist, i understand you want peace but at what cost, i am a man of my words until a valid reason is stated, i cannot join." Julius laughed and spoke out, "indeed you are worthy, you see first things first, before you can become a hero, you must first be compatible with a sacred arm, most people who wield sacred arms are chosen by the arms they wield, most arms go as far as decapitating those who wield them because they are not compatible, but you see you are different, the arm accepted you, you wield Eros of Lust, or as we call it, the Oathbreaker, that very blade either decapitates the ones who are incompatible or its blade dulls, Liam noticed this when you were at the guild earlier and this was why the emperor sent me to you, join us."

Toda froze as he didn't think the sword was truly a sacred arm as his interface told him, he bowed his head and then Julius continued speaking, "we will make arrangements for your trainings and everything, if you still want to refuse after hearing this, rest the night and tomorrow you can leave, I'll also help you with some money tomorrow, just know humanity's faith rest in the hands of all of you and no one else."

Toda raised his head, laughed and looked to Julius saying, "Why do you have to make it sound that way, i accept, i will join the fight."