The General and the Knights leave as they walk out of the door before closing it entirely.

"If you please excuse us."

The General said before going outside of the room entirely leaving a thump sound as they left.

This beautiful red headed girl just looked at me as I stood there with my feat on the ground while her cheerful face was smiling happily towards me. This girl was none other than the Princess of the Toria Kingdom, Maria Lona the Crimson Flame.

Maria was nicked name that after it was known that she was good at fire magic and sword fighting. She would beat her opponent with efficiency, without getting hit once and learned level 6 magic, making her diverse in how she fights.

The ranking system goes like this for magic but is absolutely different for non-magic users. The Magic Ranking System is divided into 4 kind of stages, starting off with Beginners Magic Spells for level 1-3, Intermediate Magic Spells 4-6, Advance Magic Spells 7-9, God Magic Spells 10-12. 

So, it goes from 1 to 12 being the maximum where you have God like spells that could turn a whole entire country into dust. Her magic is way better than a beginner's and actually makes her a second rated magician which is impressive for a jack of all trade fighter.

Now, her spells are impressive but not as good as her swordsmanship which she had shown before but I haven't seen it. I only have heard that it's extremely high level for a warrior mage like her.

The non-magicians have a different way of fighting using swords, bows, daggers, and other such weapons. How they are ranked can be based upon what we call letters instead of numbers, like G, F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS letters to describe what level they are fighting at.

SSS ranking are usually said to become powerful enough to deflect magic spells with ease while destroying concrete without using even 2 swings. With that said you can call G ranking the below average people with almost no fighting abilities. 

So, using that information and from what I heard, I can conclude that she is about A rank for someone like Maria. I don't have any information on how Sora fights, so I don't have any ideal what rank she is at.

Also, the reason why she knows my name is because she was brought along with the Rose to attend some sort of party that was hosted by the Empire I think 8 years. That was a long time ago when we were much younger and that was before the wars, Rose was visiting to try and bring up relationships but as you can already tell it didn't go so well. 

It was when the Empire was still contemplating on if they should attack the Toria Kingdom even if their Queen went missing. So, that was when Maria visited me and saw me when I was reading books about magic.

Maria was more on the quiet side back than, as multiple noble sons tried to approach her but she just shut them out. That was when she saw me and approached me, as I was reading a book about magic circle creation and all its tricks.

I remembered it very vividly, since that was the first time someone that wasn't my family members actually talk to me. It was quite the interesting conversation about magic and books, but we were not able to talk again after that because of the war. 

I would of actually accepted her as a friends, but because of how long we didn't meet I gone back to my habit of not caring about anyone. If she kept on visiting me on a regular basis would I not feel lonely?

Wouldn't that also mean, that I would of never would of summoned Sora? If I think about it than I would of never met Maria if that was the case and stayed as a lonely royalty without friends.

Goddamnit! All this time travel shit is confusing as hell! I thought to myself before focusing my attention right back at the girl name Maria in front of me who just seemed to smile without no hesitation.

"It's nice to meet you Maria."

I said with a smile on my face as she looked right back with her own grin that stretch from one part of her cheek to another.

"Hello! Suno who is that right behind you?"

She said pointing at Sora who has her hands on the apron of the dress while her eyes closed.

"Oh her? She is my personal maid hmmmm...Selene."

I said to coverup her actual name just in case they catch on to her real identity that I'm trying to keep secret right now. 

"Is that so? I thought that Suno was a loner that doesn't like people in general."

Maria said with a giggle as she talks about when I was still a kid.

"Hey! Just because I was a bookworm back in the day doesn't make me unlike people for no reason!"

I said screaming at her with with my hands raised in the air.

"Yea sure, that's what they all say to cover up their embarrassment of being a loner."

I looked at her and gone into a deep thought until I found something to counteract what she said.

"If that were true, than I wouldn't like you at all."

Maria froze as a blush took over her body, as she stood there with hands on the cheek. I already knew where this was going and tried to stop it by asking another question that's been bothering me.

"By the way Maria, I wouldn't want to burst your bubble but why are you here at the academy?"

I said right back at Maria to get her out of her fantasies inside that mind of her's.

"Oh yea, I was going to join you in the academy starting today."

My mind went blank, as I heard her say those words to me with a smile on herself. Wait! So, me summoning Sora was a waste? No how could I ever say that! Of course it's not a waste because she is the first person that had talked to me before I gone crazy.

"Is that so? Well, than I am happy you are going into the same classes as me but I'm still a hostage you know?"

I said to tell her the obvious situation I am in but she seemed to have other plans at the moment.

"I already knew that, but maybe if the officials can see that we are friendly they would considered marriage between the 2 of us to boost relationships with each other."

My eyes went wide as she said the forbidden word that I thought I would never hear again in my life; MARRIAGE! Something that my grandpa would of forced me into if he didn't decided to go to war with the Kingdom of Toria

"Wait, wait don't rush things now, just because our countries is on the edge of declaring war on each, doesn't mean that I have to instantly marry you."

I said to stop this dangerous situation from getting out of hand and my mind searched for some way to get out of this.

"Selene help!"

I said to Sora using the fake name, but instead of helping me she turns away with her hands on the apron. You traitor! I thought we were friends! I said cursing Sora for not helping me and letting me get corned like this.

"Sorry master, but I got to finish up laughing at this funny joke I thought about."

Sora said with her back turned on me, as she started to snicker at my misfortune and my inexperienced of getting a marriage proposal for the first time. I have no allies here!

"My apologies Suno, I guess maybe I'm rushing things a little too much sorry if I proposal that option a little too earlier."

Maria said with a frown on her face, now I feel bad about denying her proposal goddamnit! I sighed to myself before I looked towards Sora for help yet again, but she just keeps laughing in the corner, until she broke her laughter and stared back at us.

"Oh my apologies, but why don't you 2 go on a date to get to know yourselves better."

Good job Sora! NOT! Do you know how experience I am at socializing and now your telling me to go on a date!?! You think I am insane!?! Well, yea I am a little crazy in the brain for building all my shit underground, but I'm am not ludicrous enough to do something that I know is going to be a conundrum for me.

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I sighed to myself before looking at Maria who seemed to shine brightly at the ideal of us going on a date.

"Do you really wanna date me so badly Maria? You do know I'm bad socialize with people."

I pointed out but it seemed that Maria has her own rebuttal with words that I can't counter.

"Than how are you able to talk so normally and why are you able to talk so friendly with the maid?"

Damnit! She got me on that one, if only Sora didn't follow me over here this situation what of been solved or would it?

"Fine, I get it! I will date you seriously what is with you guys and dates!"

They both giggled at me as I sighed in all the headache that been happening.

"Now, Selene how does this 'date' works anyway?"

Sora looked at me and blinked a couple of times before realizing how inexperienced I am at this.

"First thing first, decided on a location you both enjoy and go there."

We both looked at each other while thinking about which place to go to, until me and Maria just already knew which place to go to. 

"So, where are you guys going to?"

We both looked at Sora with a plastered on our faces.

"What about the library?"

At that point Sora made that 'oh' face as she basically stared at a wall after that.

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{Somewhere in the Masloc Kingdom palace}

Tsk! Every single one of them power hungry thieves! I swear a knife will be place in my back for helping such devious bastards in their work when they start this plan. As my servant walks towards the table to set down the tea, before leaving the room. 

Sighing a large sigh, before my I lay my head on top of the soft silk chair that was made to make the person feel relaxed. Well, that feeling didn't come to me as I look over my reports yet again and found the same plans.

Every word I read in the papers had made me cringe at how much these dirt bags can even think of this plan. I sipped the tea on the table to stop my headache from reaching max level.

These dumbasses think they could do something like this and get away with it scot free while acquiring a big political advantage. Now, this whole entire situation is like a chess board with each person trying to find a way to poke the other party.

The 2 big powerhouse, the Toria Kingdom and the Temerian Empire who are in the area is basically dancing on a small string that could easily break with many people dying because of it. Making it a deciding factor on who will have the most influence in the area for the many years to come. 

All the countries that are around them is supporting the war to the max so they both can be weaken by the fighting. Now, what is stopping these 2 countries from declaring war on each other, is the Temerian Prince that is now hostage to the Torian government. 

This is a big political move, since he is the 2nd princes in the Temerian Empire, that is very healthy making it a large deal. The Emperor and the 1st Prince are extremely sick from some sort of disease that is not possible to cure or they do not have any knowledge to do so.

How do I know such important information? Well, I had my elite spy personally infiltrated the Empire and ordered him to go hunting for information on why these 2 haven't in public eyes for a long time. 

My allies are going for a large power grab between the 2 powers by killing the 2nd Prince and then uniting all the minor countries to form one big coalition against the one that is left. This whole entire process is to eliminate 2 birds with one stone but is also a BIG risky political maneuver because of what would happen if they get caught.

The turning events would be those 2 forming a Temerian-Torian Alliance, or they are already in the process of doing so by letting the princess in the Toria Kingdom marrying the second Prince. This is the worst scenario for anyone planning to fight them, as I can image Queen Rose will certainly be smirking at an such events to unfold. 

Queen Rose is nicknamed the 'Immortal Phoenix' by a lot of people for her beautiful looks and astonishingly red hair that flows in the wind. That is not the only reason as you would've guessed, she has done what her predecessor did in the past and that was stop the fall of Toria. 

It happened when Toria was in the state of turmoil by their missing Queen who had disappeared 15 years ago. Well, from what I heard after the disappearance of Queen Sora, Rose had set up diplomatic relationships with everyone in the area to stop anymore fighting. 

She kept that up for years, until the Empire finally decided to go to war 3 years ago. And she is a master strategist that could lead an army against numerous odds that would normally give anyone else trouble.

I heard knocking on the door before I opened it and let who ever was there in.

"King Lounque Là Palico, we are about to begin the ritual for summoning the hero."

I looked at my servant and nodded my head in acknowledgment at what I'm planning to do.

"Very well, let us walked there and we shall begin the hero summoning ritual."

This is my last resort that I don't want to use because summoning a person from another world is like gambling while putting 10 stacks of gold on the table. And I don't want to take someone from their original world but I have to do this just in case I have to betray my allies.

Will this person help me out? I contemplated on this idea and decided to summon the person either they like it or not. Besides, the summoned will have the choice of helping me and I will try to reconnect to the other world or they won't help me and I just send them out. I know I'm heartless but this is the only way I could think of that will give me a gambling chip when it comes to agreements.

I went into the summoning room with my Royal Knights guarding me while I stare at the Mages who had setup things years ago. 

"Begin the spell!"

I said in my formal tone to get their attention, as they got the message, my mages  started chanting the spell. From what I heard you have to say what kind of person will pop out from the magic circle spell. 

Each country magic circle has different circles for each one, for the Empire circle will cost less but is more complicated to write. Only about high level magician of the Advance tier is capable of producing their circles.

And if you just say individual it will randomize the chance of getting just about anyone but the advantage would be that it cost less mana. If you go into more specific information about what kind of person he/she is than it will cost much more to summoned them over, and the rest over traits will be randomly selected.

What we wrote was the traits intelligent, magic master, and deal making for them. The reason for this is because I don't want someone that is dumb and it's not my style to be unfair. I'm way too much of a softy when it comes to people nowadays, but at the same time I am unmerciful. 

The spell was about finish and what came out was a girl so beautiful that my eyes seemed to stare at her. She had flawless black hair that flowed to the back of her head as red ruby eyes fit my view and young pale skin that seemed so fragile that it could easily break.

She was wearing a red colored dress that seemed to fit her lips and makes her look absolutely perfect with her young features that made her look 16. I am quite young as well for a king somewhere between 18, so is this magic spell a match making or something!?!

"Hello there, I am Cordelia Lorain it's nice to meet you."

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Yea, if you ever actually read my other work you probably know her very well but most of you probably have no idea who she is.