
After receiving the words from King Petersburg, Party Hero and General Nero enjoyed the banquet just like the rest of the guests. They mingled with the nobles and chatted with each other.
Party Hero and General Nero seemed to be the center of attention in this banquet, many nobles swarmed over them and gave them various kinds of praise and flattery.
The praises that the nobles threw seemed too exaggerated, those praises were only solely to curry favor with Party Hero in order to have a relationship with them.
Those who heard the compliments and flattery simply responded to the compliments with a big smile.
"Huh..... From the beginning I didn't agree to go to this banquet." Mumbled Viktor slowly.
"Let it go, and there's nothing to lose to us anyway." Danzel said with a look of boredom, he was also annoyed just as Viktor who distinguishes is himself who does not think too much about it.
While others are busy serving the nobles who are not ceaselessly giving praise and flattery, Viktor, Eric and Alice are more focused on finding the person they have been questioning their existence.
"I didn't see Mr. Ares, did he not come to this banquet?."
"No, he's coming, it's just that he must be somewhere else." Viktor said so because based on the words of the nobles, the Dunkenheit family joined in this banquet together with Ares.
Not finding the whereabouts of Ares they decide to split up looking for him, because there is something important they have to talk to Ares about.
After a while of searching for Alice to find Ares, she immediately calls Viktor and Eric. They approached Ares together.
"Mr Ares. Long time no see."
Ares turned his back and slightly raised his eyebrows, Ares looked at them from top to bottom before speaking.
"You've been so much stronger since our first meeting." Ares smiled faintly, the change in appearance that occurred to them was quite significant to the point of being unrecognizable.
Not only the appearance, but their aura and strength also increased significantly and almost made Ares himself startled. Their increase in strength was far above him which meant that they could be much stronger than him.
"You could have. Ah right, do you have a minute? There's something we want to talk to you about." Eric does not hide his intention to talk to Ares, not only himself but Viktor and Alice also seem so.
"Yes I can, but where's Danzel? Isn't he the fault of the hero? Why wasn't he invited?”
"That's... We'll explain later. First the city has to talk about it now...." Viktor spoke while looking around him, Eric and Alice behaving similarly, Viktor then approached and whispered something.
"This relates to you talking to us last time...." Viktor whispered very slowly, before retreating and nodding his head at Ares.
Ares frowned and glanced right and left, he could clearly feel that there were many people watching them. The servants are also assassins who are hired to spy on the nobles and Party Heroes.
Ares nodded slowly"Alright... Follow me." Ares led the way as he glanced at the surroundings sharply, appearing the nobles and servants avoiding eye-to-eye with him.
After walking for a while Ares directed them to a balcony outside the palace, a small balcony with four chairs.
"You sit down first." Ares invited them to sit down first, and they sat down and watched Ares put up something around them.
"{ Anti-Information Magic
Wall }." Ares installs magic that is useful to prevent supervision from others, and makes the area that is within the scope of the magic spell to be soundproof and safe from supervision.
"When I've just wanted to use it, but you've already used it." Eric smiled faintly, the magic spell Ares had just used was a magic spell he often used to discuss important matters with Viktor and Alice.
Ares smiled faintly and sat down in the middle, and folded his hands. Ares let out an aura of seriousness that was clearly visible from the look in his eyes.
"So what do you want to talk to me about? And why me?." Ares gave a sharp and full stare.
Viktor, Eric and Alice looked at each other. Their backs were soaked in cold sweat resulting from the bullying aura Ares let out.
Eric let out a long sigh"Lord Ares, the reason we called you is because the words you said to us the first time seemed to actually happen..." Viktor put on a serious face.
Ares raised his eyebrows"What do you mean?."
Eric as a whole explained their current situation and condition, Ares only explained by putting on a serious face.
"So that's the story, Mr. Ares...." Eric closes his explanation, and waits for a response from Ares.
Ares was only speechless as he frowned, based on the story of Eric the Royal Family more precisely King Petersburg had made a move to completely master them. He provided many resources and useful potions added strength significantly to them.
Without King Petersburg realizing if Eric knew the efficacy of some resources he gave to Party Hero.
The resources given by the King of Petersburg have the property of eroding the soul and humanity of people who use little by little if used continuously, if used in the long term then the effect can make the soul become damaged and humanity becomes lost.
Knowing that he immediately told his other friends, but unfortunately not many believed his words. Only a few people including Viktor and Alice believed his words.
"I didn't expect the old man to do it this fast, was this because of the power struggle?." Ares rubbed his chin, thinking it was likely that King Petersburg wanted to use the Party Hero to secure his position as a king.
The support of the nobles and the Five Great Families became the measuring point of who would become the King later, using the Party Hero to secure the position would be the most effective way.
"How many resources have you used?."
"People who believe my words only use the resources I suggest, but those who do not trust me use the resources of the King of Petersburg in an unreasonable amount, you can see the difference in our strength with them, right?." Eric took a long breath.
Ares rubbed his chin, thinking if the difference in strength within the Party Hero happened due to that jobclass and their role in the battle, but he did not expect this to happen because of that.
If the amount of resources they consume reaches a fantastic number, it is no wonder their souls and humanity are damaged. It was visible from the eyes of those who seemed to have no soul or feeling.
"It's complicated.... And here's the new information I got." Ares himself was astonished, he had a great information network inside the royal palace that made it impossible for there to be information that he did not know, hearing their stories and words certainly made him confused.
"The information network I created was not extensive enough to get to this information, this meant that this information was completely kept secret until my own information network could not capture it...." Ares let out a long sigh, and then leaned his body on the back of the chair.
"If my guess is correct your friends are now under the influence of brainwashing."
"If they're brainwashed why isn't Danzel affected, too? Danzel was the one who used the most resources from the King of Petersburg, but why didn't she get hit?." Eric asked astonishedly, they all knew Danzel was the one who used the most resources from King Petersburg, along with the others.
"It's just my theory so you're free to believe it or not. Looks like your friend, Danzel. Already working with King Petersburg to brainwash your friends, or, he has resistance to resources that have a soul-destroying effect..." Ares said, although it sounds convincing Ares himself is not sure of his theory.
If it's true that Danzel has a resistance to resources that have a damaging effect on the soul, it's no wonder she's brainwashed, even though she uses the most resources.
"That makes sense." Eric bothered to agree, seeing the smartest person among them agree with Ares' words made Viktor and Alice inevitably believe this.
"Ummm... Mr Ares, now what should we do?" Alice asked limply, what happened to them at this time really suits Ares say the first time they met, so they met Ares and told her everything, hope Ares has a way out of their problems.
Seeing their helplessness made Ares a little happy, he didn't expect the predictions to actually come true.
Ares sighed and raised his three fingers"You currently have three choices."
"Three choices? What the hell is that?."
Ares smiled and explained the three choices he had said before. Viktor, Eric and Alice are silent at the choice Ares made.
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