As an event gathering the cream of the world crop, the banquet stood within the academy proper, in a hall so large that it could easily serve thousands of guests.
To ease transportation, for this unique occasion, the Imperial Magic Academy had teleportation circles ready in all the guests, prospective, and returning students' halls, enabling direct access to the academy's doors.
Stepping into the teleportation circle, Alex, Gracier, and Silveria, directly landed in the hallway leading to the banquet.
Alex wore a black tuxedo which perfectly fit his body, his necktie was loose giving him a wild look, coupled with the eye patch and his handsome face, he looked devilishly handsome.
Gracier on the side wore a dress that matches her hair, it was a red gown cut off at the knees, it was a quite bold look.
The gown revealed Gracier's tender shoulders and gave a glimpse of her back, plus her legs, peeking out from under her gown, were adorned with a pair of black garters giving her a touch of cheekiness beneath her formal appearance. The contrast between her fair skin and the black garters accentuated her beauty, taking Alex's breath away for a moment. Gracier was like a little seductress.
Back then Gracier had asked his opinion,
"Big brother, How is it? You don't like it?"
"No… I think it looks great, you're like an angel, my angel, you're truly beautiful." Alex offered his honest opinion.
"Hehehe! Thank you, Big brother."
Gracier twirled her finger around a ringlet of her hair as she shyly said, she was smiling, happy to be praised.
~Back to the present.
Silveria was wearing a silver dressed that match her hair and eyes, her beauty was beyond the mortal world, at the moment she put on a cold expression.
Everybody stopped and looked at the unusual trio, forget the handsome young man, their attentions were mostly focused on the two beauties, especially the silver-haired beauty, they could swear that Silveria was the most beautiful woman that had ever seen.
Unbothered by all of the stares they were receiving, Alex, Gracier, and Silveria walked at a slow, steady pace until they arrived in front of a door.
The door automatically opened itself and Alex and the two girls walked in, his eye quickly scanned the hall.
All noises stopped when the three entered, all eyes were on them.
As he kept scanning the room Alex's eyes landed on the largest gathering of nobles, he saw the Second Princess, Katherina Von Havens happily chatting with some nobles, Leonardo, Camilla, Kevin, and Dodolus were also present.
Like everyone else inside the hall, they stopped talking and looked in Alex's direction, their eyes widened, especially the second Princess when she saw the handsome Alex, she started thinking about something, meanwhile, Leonardo's expression darkened instantly when he saw Alex's face, even if he became handsome it was not hard to identify him as Alex.
"Is that Alexander? No way, what happened? How can he becomes so handsome?" Kevin asked eyes filled with unwillingness and jealousy. Dodolus was surprised as well, even his usually stoic face couldn't help but change, he was stupefied.
Camilla was jealous of the two beauties accompanying Alex, the silver-haired maiden aside whose beauty was unparalleled, Camilla swallows down her jealousy because there was no way she would compare herself with that kind of beauty, however, what pisses her off was the red-haired little girl wearing an eye patch, even the undeveloped brat was beautiful than her.
Leonardo's face further darkened when he became finally aware of the presence of the two beauties standing beside Alex, he was captivated by the silver-haired beauty. Seeing Alex's smile before he continued scanning the room, Leonardo felt like he had been defeated.
"What a beautiful girl, she's like a goddess."
"I have never seen a woman so beautiful in my life."
"The red-haired girl is also beautiful."
"The man is also handsome. He is so lucky to be accompanied by two beauties."
Whispers starting flying here and there ignoring all of this Alex kept scanning the hall until his eyes landed on Maria, Luna, and Sakuya, they were surprised staring in direction.
Smiling Alex approached them.
''Hi! Long time no see. How have you been, Maria, Luna, and Sakuya?" Alex asked once in front of them.
Maria was wearing a black dress that made her more mature and beautiful, Luna was wearing a white dress that made her look holy and inviolable while Sakuya was wearing a short purple dress.
''Welcome Alex. We are all fine. You like fine from what I see. You're even more handsome.'' Maria said, her cold face had loosened up a bit.
''Hahaha, indeed I'm fine as you can see. Oops! Where's my manner? I forget to introduce the two beauties beside me. The one on my right is Gracier Alexandra Touch, my little sister, Alexandra say hi!"
Gracier immediately greeted the three, ''Hello, Big sisters.''
Maria, Luna, and Sakuya were surprised being suddenly called Big sisters. Sakuya smiled before disappeared to reappears right before Gracier and hug her.
'Fast.' Alex thought. Even though the distance between the two was not that far apart to move so fast indicates that Sakuya possesses high Agility.
''Too cute. Nin~ Little Gracier can you become Onee-san little sister?" Sakuya asked while stroking Gracier's hair.
''I refuse.''
Instant rejection.
''Kyaa- Kawaii!" Sakuya didn't seem discouraged after being rejected.
''Ne~ Alex-kun, can you give me your sister?"
''I also refuse.'' Alex instantly refused as well, how can he give away such a cute little sister. Gracier smiled while Sakuya pouted.
''Omae was kawaii ku nai.'' Sakuya said.
'I don't want to be Kawaii, though.' Alex thought.
Everybody was looking at the scene dumbfounded, Maria sighed while Luna smiled.
Shaking his head Alex decided to introduce Silveria.
''This person on my left is my Master Silveria.''
Maria and the others were surprised by the fact that the silver-haired beauty was Alex's master.
''Master, those three are my former classmates I've talked about.'' Alex turned his face in Silveria's direction and introduced them as his former classmates.
Silveria only nodded their head not saying anything.
Now that they think about it, there was a mysterious air around Silveria making them shudder, nobody tried to approach her as they were afraid.
Suddenly, Silveria disappeared leaving everyone dumbfounded.
''Eh? Where did she go? I thought It is said that a formation inside this round making impossible to teleport in or out of the hall?" A chubby man dressed lavishly said.
''Who knows. She must be an Expert to be able to leave even if the formation activated.'' another one said, this time it was a girl.
The others nodded their heads thinking that it does make sense, nobody thought that she hides, she must have left to go somewhere.
Alex did his best to not laugh, he was thinking, 'Silveria sure know how to act.'
Meanwhile, Maria was looking at Alex with interest, she wondered what Alex went through to be able to get such a powerful master. Leonardo was fuming inside, today was going to be his limelight where he shines, however, everything falls apart the moment Alex shows up.
The second princess was thinking about an entirely different thing, after learning that the silver-haired beauty whose beauty was on par with her sister the third princess, she was finally able to pierce together the reason why Alex had survived the ambush. With such a powerful master and the Flame Prince no wonder, he could survive.
''I must act cautiously, I must get him at any cost. What a blunder of my part, I shouldn't have acted as I did on our first meeting.,'' Katherina mumbled, eyes filled with regret, well, no need to cry over a spilled milk, what she needs to do now was to find a way to salvage thing between them.
''Did you say something, Your Highness ?" One of the noble who was trying to butter her asked.
''No, nothing,'' Katherina responded while thinking about various solutions.
Suddenly, there was a commotion, the door opened and several individuals walked in.
A handsome man with white hair and golden eyes dressed in white.
''Tch!" Katherina clicked her tongue in annoyance when she saw this young man.
Behind the man was a man at least two meters tall, his body was robust, golden hair and golden eyes, the strange thing was that he had a pair of lion ears on his head and a long lion tail wrapped around his waist. He was wearing a yellow tuxedo.
Just after the lion beastman was another three beastmen, two with silver-white hair, silver tails, and pairs of wolf ears, the two look alike, they must be twins, one girl, and one man. They were smiling showing their white canines. Both dressed in white, the man was handsome with long silver-white hair, the woman's beauty wasn't inferior to Maria, she was truly beautiful however her breasts were small, in contrast, she had a small waist with curvy hips, shapely butt.
The last beastmen was a girl, an extremely beautiful girl, with beautiful long golden hair, slit golden eyes, everyone eyes were glued on her swaying figure as she waltzed on with an effortless saunter. The clicking of her heels echoed in the silent hall. Alluringly she would blink her eyes from time to time, allowing her eyelashes to flutter like the wings of a butterfly, her eyes were simply spellbinding.
She was born seductress, she was dressed in a black phoenix dress that fit her form, showing her beautiful curves through the dress hinting at just how great her figure was.
There were golden embroideries of auspicious beasts on the black silk dress, making it looks grand and graceful. It granted its wearer an imposing. Six foxtails could be peeking out of the black phoenix dress and beautiful golden fox ears on top of the woman's heard.
''So, this is the famous Fox woman, indeed she's like a seductress, a succubus, I almost got charmed,'' Alex said after observing the fox girl.
Maria was surprised by Alex not being charmed like the other men in hall, some even started drooling to be slapped by their fiancee who was nearby, even Leonardo was staring at the fox young girl not hiding his lust, his desire to possess her.
'Ah! No wonder. Having such a beautiful Master and stay constantly beside her must have made him immune against the vixen charm.' Maria had already labeled the fox girl as a vixen she must be wary of.
Coincidentally, the fox girl looked at Alex for a moment before turning to look at Maria, she smiled before continuing.
Maria's face darkened, she felt as if she had been provoked, Luna and Sakuya noticed it they couldn't help but smile.
''Who are the five who just entered?" Alex was curious.
''The one with white hair coming here is the Holy Son of the Holy Crux Empire, Damien Constantine Crux, the golden-haired man is the Crown Prince of the Lionheart Empire, Leon Lionheart. The twins are the Crown Prince and Princess of the Wolfang Empire, Ferris and Eris Wolfang, lastly that vixen, I mean the fox girl is the Crown Princess of the Foxia Kingdom, Kuina Eriel Foxia.''
'Oi, oi, why are you treating her of vixen?' Alex wondered but he chose to not ask as he had the feeling that he wouldn't like Maria's answer.
Suddenly, Maria exclaimed as she remembered something.
''The Holy Son is coming here? Why?" She said looking ahead.
Indeed, the Holy Son, Damien Constantine Crux was coming towards them, as for why it was unknown.